00:00Militarily and economically.
00:03I just want to ask you a question.
00:05Is this guy central casting?
00:08I'm looking at him.
00:09I'm in Treasury.
00:11And I signed and there's no ink.
00:13And I got all you people looking and you're saying
00:15there must be something wrong with Trump.
00:18And I'm signing and there's no ink in the pen
00:20and it costs a thousand dollars.
00:25See this pen right here, this pen is an interesting example.
00:28It's the same thing. So this pen
00:30is very inexpensive.
00:32But it writes well.
00:34I like it. But I can't have the pen
00:36the way it was. You know what it is. I don't want to give
00:38too much publicity but they do treat me well.
00:40Sharpie.
00:44So I came here.
00:45They have thousand dollar pens.
00:46And you know, you hand pens out. You're signing
00:48and you're handing them out. You're handing them to all these people.
00:51Sometimes you have 30, 40 people.
00:53And they were a thousand dollars a piece.
00:55Beautiful pen.
00:56A thousand ballpoint.
00:57A thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous.
01:00But I'm handing it out to kids that don't even know what they are.
01:02What is this, mommy?
01:03It's kids. They're getting a pen for a thousand dollars.
01:06They have no idea what it is.
01:08And I feel guilty because I'm like,
01:10you know, by nature I don't...
01:12You know, it's the government. I love the government.
01:14Like I love myself economically.
01:17I want to save money.
01:18So I'm saying this is crazy.
01:20And it had another problem. They didn't write well.
01:23So I take it out.
01:24And I signed and there's no ink.
01:26And I got all you people looking.
01:28And you're saying, there must be something wrong with Trump.
01:31And I'm signing.
01:32And there's no ink in the pen.
01:34And it costs a thousand dollars.
01:36And that's when I called the guy.
01:38I said, I'd like to use your pen,
01:40but I can't have a gray thing with a big S on it.
01:43St. Sharpie.
01:44As I'm signing a trillion dollar airplane contract
01:48to buy brand new fighter jets,
01:50brand new B-2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty.
01:54I can't do that with the press.
01:56He said, well, I can make it nicer.
01:58I said, what can you do?
01:59He said, I'll paint it black.
02:00I said, that's nice.
02:01And I can even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like.
02:06In gold.
02:08Almost real gold.
02:09Not bad. And I can even do your signature, sir.
02:13And by the way, this was not staged.
02:15I just saw the pen sit there.
02:16I thought of this as an example
02:18of how $25 million
02:21spent by me
02:22at the Federal Reserve Building would be a better job
02:24than $4 billion
02:28that they spent.
02:29So I told that story to somebody
02:30and said, yeah, but I mean, but it's not the same thing.
02:32I said, you're right.
02:34This one is better.
02:36It writes.
02:38So the guy said to me,
02:40you don't have to pay me, sir.
02:42I'll give him to you for nothing.
02:43I said, no, I don't want that.
02:45Let me pay you.
02:46I want to pay you.
02:47No, sir, you don't have to.
02:48You're the President of the United States.
02:49He was shocked.
02:50The head of Sharpie gets a call.
02:52I don't even know who the hell he is.
02:54He said, is this really the President?
02:57He said, no, you don't have to pay me, sir.
02:59This is such an honor.
03:00I said, no, I want to pay you.
03:02He said, what would you like to pay?
03:04I said, how about $5 a pen?
03:05He said, that's all right.
03:07Whatever the hell we agreed to.
03:09Peanuts.
03:10As opposed to $1,000.
03:12And these were $1,000 pens.
03:14And we were giving them out.
03:16Sometimes, you know, you were there for something.
03:17He said, have 30, 40 people standing behind me.
03:19Give out 40 pens to people.
03:21Then somebody would say, could I have a couple extra?
03:24This way, I go like this.
03:25Here, you want five?
03:26Here, I take five.
03:27But the bottom line is, they're better pens.
03:30It's a business story.
03:31So for $5, it could be zero, but for $5, I get a much better pen than for $1,000.
03:39And I can hand them out.
03:40And actually, they become hot as a pistol.
03:42So what can I tell you?
03:44With that, could I give it to please a man who's done a great job at treasuring Scott?
03:50Good luck, Scott.
03:53Well, sir, as always, your tough act to follow.
03:56That is very illustrative.
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