With a bizarre rhetorical flourish only he can muster, on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, President Trump admitted to House Republicans at a retreat that he, too, uses an autopen to sign documents in the Oval Office — the very criticism Trump often levies against his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Speaking to Republican lawmakers at a closed-door GOP gathering on the 5th anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Trump went off topic, saying, “And by the way, you ought to make a big deal out of the autopen. The autopen was your president,” Trump said of Biden. He went on to claim, without evidence, that Biden’s documents were overwhelmingly signed mechanically rather than by hand. Trump also repeated an oft-cited but unsubstantiated figure, claiming “95%” of Biden’s documents were signed by an autopen.
