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White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov. They are in the public domain and usually appear 4–7 weeks after the event: the newest one here is from Sep 30, 2026. We show how often a word was said and short quotes, and link to the full text. Searches on this page go to our server, unlike My transcripts.

“China” said in 50 of 83 transcripts, 372 times.

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Remarks on Domestic Business Investment

Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …American workers, and to build your factories here in America, not in China or any other country. And we're dealing with many, many countries right…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …a champion for workers in the White House. And instead of putting China first, I'm putting Michigan first, and I'm putting America first. Right? After…
  2. …they're coming from France, they're coming from Spain. Yes, they're coming from China too. Yes, they're coming from China. They're coming from all over the…
  3. …and scheming and thinking and saying: "How am I going to beat China? How am I going to stop the war with Russia and Ukraine…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …be setting the number. And we're going to pick—could be for China too. Could be for China. We'll—we're dealing with almost all of…
  2. …dealing with a lot of countries right now. And could be with China, but maybe we'll make a special—you know, a deal. And we'll…
  3. …or your friends with fentanyl. And somehow, it's made almost exclusively in China. And as you know, we essentially taxed them 10 and then another…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Paul S. Atkins as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …much. Any questions for Paul? No? Yes. Please. We're doing fine with China. We're doing fine with every—I think almost every country. Everybody wants…
  2. …I'm not going to say, "Oh, I'm going to play hardball with China." "I'm going to play hardball with you, President Xi." No, no. We're…
  3. …won't be zero. It used to be zero. We were just destroyed. China was taking us for a ride and just not going to have…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …business, I would think, right? Tell us what happens where you say China and other people steal your fish. When—in other words, you're forced…
  2. …same—I view it very similar. It would be top levels of China. And if you knew him, you would know that if they reached…
  3. …it very tight, very strong, very smart. And yes, we're talking to China. Excuse me? Oh, yes. Sure. Yes. A lot. I mean, a lot…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 21 times

  1. …questions? Well, it's moving along, but obviously, I would say, right now China is not exactly thrilled about signing it. We have a deal with…
  2. …to have to wait to see what—what's going to happen with China. So—— No, it's on the table very much. I think China is…
  3. …Look, for years, we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by China—and others, in all fairness, but by China. That's the big one…

Remarks at a Photographic Opportunity With Automobile Racing Champions From NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …only with—you know, if you look at it, not only with China, but China was by far the biggest abuser in history and others…
  2. …it. They had to stop, because it was not sustainable. Last year, China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States. That's not right…
  3. …but we have a tremendous amount of spirit from other countries, including China. China wants to make a deal. They just don't know how quite…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times

  1. …deals, and people are paying tariffs. Countries are paying tariffs. Right now China is paying a 104-percent tariff. Think of it. One hundred and…
  2. …But the same people now telling me about how to deal with China are the ones who sold out America for decades to China. For…
  3. …to China. I'm the only one that China— you know how much—China has paid almost $700 billion in tariffs under me. And then they…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …to beautiful clean coal, and they've stayed there for many years, like China. China is opening two plants every week. Germany went green, very green…
  2. …to be number one. We're now way ahead of everybody at AI. China is in second place, but way behind. And they're going to be…
  3. …scam" killed jobs and sent prices soaring here in America. But meanwhile, China opened two coal plants every single week. And other countries, likewise, went…

Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports

Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …same thing right now, starting about midnight tonight, I would say. And China charges American rice farmers an over quota, it's called—a tariff rate…
  2. …every country on Earth would be racing to eliminate these policies, and China would be the first on line. They run a very strong country…
  3. …now we import it all from different countries. A single shipyard in China now produces more ships every year than all of the American shipyards…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …is investing $500 billion. You know, they always built their places in China. Now he's building here. I think because of the—and I—you…
  2. …as I said, but they always used to spend that money in China. Now they're spending it here. That means they're going to build—now…
  3. …reasons, but I could see—you know, one point in tariffs with China, a big country, would be probably worth more than all of TikTok…

Remarks on Signing the Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …drugs that you need, medicines. It's in other countries. Largely, made in China. A lot of it made in Ireland. Ireland was very smart. We…
  2. …of problems. But Germany is now building a lot of coal plants. China is building one a—1 week. Think of that. And they're using…
  3. …about our country more than anything else, with respect to TikTok. And China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly, in…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …Sweden and lots of places are rated at the top, and Finland—China is rated very high too. Tell me that's—that takes the big…

Remarks at a Greek Independence Day Reception

Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …a big job. He's got to get those permits out fast, because China gives fast permits, right? They don't even do permits. They just say…

Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …it to anybody. You know, you're talking about a potential war with China. Now, I deal with these people all the time, and I'm dealing…
  2. …But I don't want other people seeing—anybody seeing potential war with China. We don't want to have a potential war with China. But I…
  3. …abuse. But I certainly wouldn't want—you know, Elon has businesses in China, and he would be susceptible, perhaps, to that. But it was such…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …soon as Biden came in, he took out all the sanctions, and China and everybody else that wasn't buying oil from Iran was buying it…
  2. …the big Air Force base. We would have kept it. Right now China occupies Bagram. And the reason we would have kept it is because…
  3. …them combined. That's why I placed large tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, and they will remain in place until these deadly poisons stop pouring…

Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …our jobs. I did it initially, very strongly, against, as you know, China and some others in the first term. And it was a very…
  2. …in the United States. He never did that before. He invested in China. He's got his plants in China. And now he's got them—going…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …there'll be disruption. But in the end—I said it before with China. We signed an unbelievable deal with China—$50 billion in purchases. And…
  2. …a lot about it. You know, we took in, in tariffs from China, $600 billion. Nobody else took in 10 cents from China. They never…
  3. …will be on April 2, when—reciprocal tariffs. So, if India or China or any of the countries that really—India is a very high…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …start using them against those other countries. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada—have you heard of them?—and countless…
  2. …It's very unfair. India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100 percent. China's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them. And…
  3. …create jobs like we have never seen before. I did it with China, and I did it with others. And the Biden administration couldn't do…

Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …never happened. And we would have had Bagram right now instead of China having it. It was 1 hour away from where China makes their…
  2. …poured into our country from Mexico and, as you know, also from China, where it goes to Mexico and goes to Canada. And China also…
  3. …it's the yuan or the yen in Japan or the yuan in China—when they drop them down, that gives us—that puts us at…

Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …everybody here today. Thank you very much. How am I doing on China? Am I doing good? Am I doing good on China? Tell you…
  2. …China. Nobody ever let people know what was happening with respect to China. And I happen to like President Xi, and I have tremendous respect…
  3. …Love the people of China. But we've been treated very unfairly by China and many other countries, and we're not being un- —fairly treated anymore…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida

Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …they all said, "How can we do this?" Because, you know, in China and various other places, you can probably get it with the shake…
  2. …thing for the world. The whole world suffered. It suffered terribly, including China, including other countries. It just was a terrible period of time. But…
  3. …came and lots of things came. And we had also talked to China about it. Now, Russia and us have the biggest nuclear by far…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …going to go and do anything to undermine the dollar—that includes China. I don't even know that they're a member of BRICS. But they…
  2. …than anybody. This is good, beautiful, clean coal. And if you notice, China is opening up a coal plant a month. Germany is now opening…
  3. …the steel industry in my first term by putting on tariffs, because China was dumping massive amounts of steel—others also, but mostly China. And…

Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times

  1. …I did it in a different form with tariffs and taxes on China. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars. No other President, as…
  2. …everybody. This is something that should have been done many years ago. China did it. I mean, China did it at a level that probably…
  3. …seen before. If you manufactured a car, you couldn't send it into China, the tariff was so high. So, everybody went and they built in…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …Nobody wants to do business. They say: "Look, we can deal with China. They can do whatever they want. We can deal with Russia. We…
  2. …but they didn't do anything. As you know, I put tariffs on China. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars with those tariffs, and…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …see whether or not we can work something out on the tariffs. China—we'll be speaking to China probably over the next 24 hours. We…
  2. …coming into our country. Now, we had another big thing. Speaking of China, China is involved with the Panama Canal. They won't be for long…
  3. …get something very strong, or we're going to take it back. And China will be dealt with. And we didn't give that to China. We…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …come through Canada, and a lot of fentanyl comes through Canada. And China makes the fentanyl. You know, China makes the fentanyl, gives it to…
  2. …the great wonders of the world. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and Panama has been ripping down all…
  3. …people because they didn't enforce the deals. We have a deal with China, which is phenomenal for the farmers, but there was nobody to enforce…

Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on an Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …250 billion, $300 billion a year—and Mexico is a method of China sending in its product—and, with China, I'm also thinking about something…
  2. …because of that, they're causing us hundreds of thousands of deaths. So China is going to end up paying a tariff also for that, and…
  3. …that. We'll make that determination on what it's going to be, but China has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and killing our people…

Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida

Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …if we can save all that voice and all the jobs and China won't be involved—you don't want China involved. But we'll see what…
  2. …was so one-sided. You know, we had obligations, but Russia didn't, China didn't, other countries didn't. We paid every—we were going to lose…
  3. …the World Health Organization, where we paid $500 million a year—and China paid just $39 million a year, despite a much larger population. How…

Remarks on the National Economy in Las Vegas, Nevada

Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …the World Health Organization, where we paid $500 million a year and China paid $39 million a year, despite a much larger population. Think of…
  2. …we would. They have to clean it up a little bit. But China pays $39 million for 1.4 billion, and we're paying $500 million…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …huge positive impact. And you know, we want to be ahead of China. We're, right now, way ahead of China. David Sacks is one of…
  2. …It's a world. That's a whole different world. And we're ahead of China now because of what I'm doing, and I think it's going to…
  3. …But I have certain hatreds of people too—— ——you know? Which one? China? They have a lot of power over Russia. They supply energy to…

Remarks to the World Economic Forum and a Question-and-Answer Session With Business Leaders

Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …everything, and it's so unfair." I said, "How does it compare to China?" He said, "It's much worse." And the other thing, as you know…
  2. …it. Because it's a very competitive—it will be very competitive with China and others. So I'm going to give emergency declarations so that they…
  3. …actually, you could look worldwide, we—we're—we were beating everybody from China to everybody else. So—and we think we really—now, with what…

Remarks on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Development and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …want to do is, we want to keep it in this country. China is a competitor, and others are competitors. We want it to be…
  2. …know what's happening. This is money that normally would have gone to China or other countries—but, in particular, China. In total, before the end…
  3. …I had that talk with President Xi the other day, too, of China. I said, "We don't want that crap in our country." We've got…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times

  1. …immigration. Which one? No. You're talking about which? Say it again. Oh, China. Well, you—as you know, I put on—large tariffs on China…
  2. …amounts of steel. We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars from China because they—and they were unable to terminate the tariffs that I…
  3. …other things too. And the very big thing is the Panama Canal. China controls the Panama Canal. What's that all about? They're not supposed to…

Remarks and a Document Signing Ceremony Following the Inaugural Parade at Capitol One Arena

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …energy that you can have by far, and they're all made in China, by the way—practically all of them. And they kill your birds…
  2. …rip-off. The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity. You know, China, I—and look, they use a…
  3. …any business with us. You're not going to do business with America. China passed. Everybody passed. They were broke. They didn't have money for Hamas…

Inaugural Address

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …or form. And that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China…