WATCH: Trump goes viral for illustrating how to cut government waste with his favorite White House pen
President Donald Trump turned heads again this week for a viral Cabinet meeting tangent about a favorite custom White House Sharpie. He said the marker is an example of how...
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President Donald Trump turned heads again this week for a viral Cabinet meeting tangent about a favorite custom White House Sharpie. He said the marker is an example of how he can get "better" results for less cost. The president brought up the pen while criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over a new headquarters, which he said costs the government $4 billion. "If it was properly done and planned, you would have done that building for — I would have done it — for $25 million, and it would be better," he said. He then reached for a marker on a table and said, "See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example." TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER ENSURING TSA WORKERS ARE PAID DURING DHS SHUTDOWN Trump said he was having issues with the old Oval Office pens, which he said were inlaid with gold and silver, running out of ink. He said he also felt "guilty" about wasting money by handing them out to as many as 40 people every time he signed an executive action. So, he decided to replace the expensive pens with customized White House Sharpies. "It's the same thing," he told his Cabinet and members of the press. "This pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well; I like it. "I came here, and they have thousand-dollar pens, and you hand pens out. You're signing, and you’re handing them out. You're handing them out with all these people. Sometimes, you have 30, 40 people, and they were a thousand dollars apiece," he said. "Beautiful pen, ballpoint, a thousand. There was gold, silver. Gorgeous. But I'm handing it out to kids that don't even know what they are. ‘What is this, Mommy?’ It’s kids, they're getting a pen for a thousand dollars, and they have no idea what it is." He said he felt "guilty" because "I want to save money." "So, I'm saying this is crazy," he explained. "And it had another problem. They didn't write well." However, despite his preference for Sharpies, Trump said he couldn’t "have the pen the way it was." TRUMP FIRES BACK AT REPORTER WHO QUES…