Remarks at the Iftar Dinner
Mar 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…them—long, long ago, it should have been done. We're rapidly defeating inflation by reducing energy costs, and even slashing the price of eggs by…
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Remarks at a Women's History Month Event
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…in 12 months from now. But on day one, we're ending the inflation nightmare that Joe Biden created and caused but—just by his spending…
…13. And we're getting them out. So, in just 2 months, core inflation has dropped to its lowest pace in 4 years. We've got it…
Remarks on Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…and Ukraine, because that would have never happened. You wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had the type of withdrawal from Afghanistan that you…
…has it. And so, an honest election and we wouldn't have had inflation. You know, you had the record-setting inflation. We wouldn't have had…
Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…what happened, what they've done to this country, both—not only the inflation, the inflation you saw, but allowing millions of criminals—millions and millions…
Remarks at the Department of Justice
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…any money to Hamas or Hizballah. It was totally broke. But allowing inflation— look at what inflation has done to people. Been so devastating. And…
…job. Brooke is doing a good job—Brooke Rollins and everybody. And inflation is down. Interest rates are down. Gasoline has come down, down to…
…to see what's happened. A thing like that would have never happened. Inflation would have never happened. October 7 would have never happened—Israel. Iran…
Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…first term. And it was a very successful term. We had no inflation. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. And…
…could have coasted. Biden left us a mess. He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high cost of products. He left us a mess. But he…
…I think Biden gave us a horrible economy. He gave us horrible inflation, and I think the market was going to go very, very bad…
Remarks on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on the Employment Situation in February and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…all out. But all these things shouldn't have happened. We shouldn't have inflation. We shouldn't have had this horrible inflation, where the prices have gone…
…But it did start. I mean, think of—think of what happened. Inflation. You have the war with Ukraine and Russia. That wouldn't have happened…
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare. Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and…
…Americans. They've not—never had anything like it. We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country…
…Do a good job. A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. The previous administration cut the…
Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…October 7 would have happened—would not have happened in Israel. And inflation wouldn't have happened. And Afghanistan, disastrous—the way they withdrew—not the…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…it. We had no wars. We had no problems. We had no inflation. We had no problems. And then, all of a sudden, you have…
…and you see what happened. You see what happened to our country: inflation, Afghanistan—that horrible withdraw from Afghanistan. I think when Russia saw what…
…doing a great job. But we didn't have wars. We didn't have inflation. We had a strong border. We had everything going good. And then…
Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…in beautiful Argentina—and it is beautiful, but, boy, did it have inflation. Inflation made it less beautiful. I hear you're doing fantastically. We're very…
…up the mess, and it is a mess on the border, with inflation—to go over—every single thing he touched turned to shit. Okay…
…moving swiftly to save the U.S. economy from the train wreck of inflation and worse that Joe Biden created. I withdrew from the one-sided…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Howard W. Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…into the country like never has been seen before. As we reduce inflation, unleash energy, bring down costs, bring back manufacturing, and lead the world…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…January 20, 2025, the dark days of high taxes, crushing regulations, rampant inflation, flagrant corruption, Government weaponization—ooh, I know about weaponization—and total incompetence…
…tough before it's too late. We're also working to end the highest inflation in our country's history, all caused because they played with our energy…
…we had in 2019, we—right now we would have virtually no inflation. We're trying to balance the budget immediately, and because of the tariff…
Remarks Following a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that wouldn't have happened. And you know what else wouldn't have happened? Inflation, because it was caused, really, by the cost of energy going through…
Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…October 7 wouldn't have happened either. Those two areas—you wouldn't have inflation, you wouldn't have October 7, you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine fighting…
Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…left, we had no wars, we had no problems, we had no inflation, we had no—we—all we had was we were going to…
…has exploded. All of these things would have never happened. We have inflation that was the worst in the history of our country. But we're…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…a lot of reasons. Number one was the border. Number two was inflation, because I had almost no inflation, and yet I charged hundreds of…
…tariffs to countries. And to think of it, I had almost no inflation and took in $600 billion of money from other countries. And tariffs…
Remarks on Signing the Laken Riley Act and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…actually. It's the biggest reason. I believe it's the single biggest reason. Inflation was horrible. Many things were horrible during that administration. When you look…
Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…of my Cabinet to marshal all powers at their disposal to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life, and we're going to…
…than anything else. A lot of people said the biggest thing was inflation and the economy, and then maybe the border was third. I always…
…country. So I talked about that much more so than I did inflation. I mean, inflation was terrible. It was the worst—I think it…
Remarks on the National Economy in Las Vegas, Nevada
Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…I'll be here all day. Under our leadership, we're going to defeat inflation, bring down prices, raise—we're going to raise those wages. They're going…
…radical left lunacy. These were lunatics. The result was the most brutal inflation in a half a century—perhaps ever in this country—I think…
…of my Cabinet to marshal all powers at their disposal to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life. We want to bring…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…energy comes down, that's going to knock out a lot of the inflation. That's going to automatically bring the interest rates down. No, no. No…
…oil comes down, it will bring down prices, then you won't have inflation, and then the interest rates will come down. Well, I would put…
Remarks to the World Economic Forum and a Question-and-Answer Session With Business Leaders
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…regulations, and hidden taxes like never before. The result is the worst inflation crisis in modern history and sky-high interest rates for our citizens…
…was going on in our country, but in particular, with our high-inflation economy and at our border. Because of these ruinous policies, total Government…
…is more than 230-percent higher than was projected in 2020. The inflation rate we are inheriting remains 50-percent higher than the historic target…
Remarks on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Development and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…invasion of our borders. I launched a government-wide effort to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life and bring down the…
…happened. I'll tell you, two things should have never happened—three things. Inflation should have never happened. It would have never happened, except for what…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…to buy another $450 or $500— we'll up it for all the inflation—— ——I think I'd probably go there. Well, we're going to try and…
…take a look at their economy, you take a look at the inflation in Russia. So I would—I would hope—I got along with…
…China is a bigger country. Well, the biggest thing and factor for inflation is energy. They screwed up my energy policy, and then they went…
Remarks and a Document Signing Ceremony Following the Inaugural Parade at Capitol One Arena
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of my Cabinet to marshal every power at their disposal to defeat inflation and rapidly bring down the cost of daily life, because your costs…
Remarks Following the Inaugural Ceremony at the United States Capitol
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of that. I made it my number-one issue. They all said inflation was the number-one issue. I said, "I disagree. I think people…
…I know." And I made it my number one. I talked about inflation too. But you know, how many times can you say that an…
Inaugural Address
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused…