President Donald Trump commented on reports that many orders and bills signed by President Biden might have been done using an "autopen," during a speech Friday at the DOJ. Trump suggests things signed this way by President Biden are "maybe not even valid.

U.S. presidents have used autopens since Thomas Jefferson; the first to use an autopen to sign a law was Barack Obama.

President Donald Trump's signature via autopen will not be available indiscriminately for any White House document, the administration has decided in the wake of a major controversy that the staff misused autopen to get former president Joe Biden's signature taking advantage of his 'cognitive decline'.