Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…just signed—what about autopens? Could I use an autopen? What did Biden do? Did he have an autopen at the desk? No, he didn't…
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Remarks During a Tour of the U.S.-U.A.E. Investment Exhibit and an Exchange With Reporters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a President of the United States doing the selling. Do you think Biden would be doing it? I don't think so. But it's so important…
Remarks to United States Servicemembers at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…rest. What do I have to rest for?" He was thinking about Biden to come. Okay? Biden. Biden would have rested the entire trip. He…
Remarks at the Saudi-United States Investment Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…have been an absolute bonanza for the countries that have joined. The Biden administration did nothing for 4 years. We would have had it filled…
…and empower them and give them billions and billions of dollars. The Biden administration—the worst administration in the history of our country, by the…
…worst days ever in the history of the Middle East. Horrible day. Biden removed the Houthis from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, even while…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients and an Exchange With Reporters
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and for everything. The— they were honoring the deal. And then, when Biden got in, they no longer honored the deal. There was nobody to…
…people a little while to understand a very complicated system. But Joe Biden, without—any knowledge of what he was doing, terminated the policy and…
…even got involved—much more expensive than when he got involved. Joe Biden's plan was a—as you know, because you wrote about it; you…
Remarks at a Bill Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…very important. They are really redoes from some horrible mistakes made by Biden and his group, and we're changing them back so that we can…
…paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes, and then Biden screwed it all up. He—what he did to this country, between…
Remarks With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom Announcing a United States Trade Agreement With the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters
May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…a great deal, doing very well for our farmers. And then when Biden came in, as usual, nothing happened. You know, he didn't enforce it…
…opinion, in the history of our country. They say 48 years, but Biden really screwed it up. He screwed up energy, and he also—he…
…stuff, and you can't combine it. And anybody should have known. So Biden—you think Biden figured this out? I don't think so, fellas. Do…
Remarks During a Swearing-in Ceremony for David A. Perdue, Jr., as United States Ambassador to China and an Exchange With Reporters
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…had a deal. And he would have honored the deal, but when Biden came in, of course, nothing ever happened with him. He didn't know…
Remarks on the 2027 National Football League Draft and an Exchange With Reporters
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…up originally, because I wouldn't let it be built. And then when Biden got in, he allowed it to be built. And it's very interesting…
…We were losing five—think of it—on our trade policies with Biden, we were losing $5 billion a day. I think Josh, who is…
Commencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of Trump. And then we got hit hard with inflation during the Biden economy. It was horrible. We were hit so hard. The worst probably…
Remarks on the National Day of Prayer
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…We reinstated servicemembers thrown out of the military over religious objections to Biden's vaccine mandate. We did a vaccine, but we didn't do a mandate…
…long. Wow, that's a great honor—thank you—because I know if Biden were up here, you would have been seated. You might have never…
Remarks on Domestic Business Investment
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. In Biden's final year, the United States had the worst trade deficit ever recorded…
…inventories, and Government spending—was up plus 3 percent. But this is Biden's economy, because we took over on January 20, and I think you…
…a little bit of time to get moving. But this is the Biden economy. But we still had a—and we've had a lot of…
Remarks in Warren, Michigan
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 21 times
…in the last administration. Hundreds of thousands a month were pouring in. Biden had no control. Thank goodness he appointed a great border czar, right…
…if this group of radical lunatics— And by the way, you know, Biden, we find out that whoever operated the autopen was the real President…
…citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. No citizenship. For years, Joe Biden and the media told us that stopping the flood of illegal immigration…
Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…too high. He historically has been late, except when it came to Biden. He was recommended by a certain person that I'm not particularly happy…
…has a lot to do with the war. You know, if—when Biden allowed energy to skyrocket—it just skyrocketed out of—it was out…
…with that being said, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars through Biden. Biden should have never let that war happen. We're spending hundreds of…
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 3 times
…the SEC and stop the lawless enforcement practices that occurred during the Biden administration. They were vicious people. They were vicious and horrible for our…
…you know, we were losing $5 billion a day when—during the Biden administration, during that last year. It was a horror show, what they…
…were having hundreds of thousands of people a month come in under Biden, and they came in from prisons. They came in from mental institutions…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Mehmet Oz as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Nobody is playing me. I'm trying to help. You know, this was Biden's war. By the way, by me getting involved, you know, they'll say…
…and the people of this country want those people out. Because what Biden did and his—I don't know if he did it. I'm not…
…they weren't spending it to terrorist organizations because they had none. When Biden came in, he took all the sanctions off. China wasn't allowed to…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…they basically took away your fishing rights. Yes. Was that Obama and Biden? It's so sad. It's so crazy. It's too bad they won't pick…
…this for thousands of years in this area—— ——and then along comes Biden and Obama, and they say you can't do it anymore, right? Yes…
…You've seen that signature, and I don't use autopen, you know? Like Biden—Biden uses autopen. I think we ought to—— Executive Director Simonds. Thank…
Remarks on Presenting the Commander in Chief's Trophy to the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen
Apr 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…got them almost entirely rebuilt. Then we had a catastrophe known as Biden. And in Afghanistan, he gave so much of the equipment away, but…
Remarks Honoring the 2024 College Football National Champion Ohio State University Buckeyes
Apr 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…you know, you're the reason—they say that was—I visited and Biden didn't, and when I went there—and I went there right after…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…it. It's a big deal. I did it in the first administration. Biden came in on his, like, first week, and he had no idea…
…of the United States, and I would be willing to bet that Biden didn't know—probably didn't know anything about any of it. Very dangerous…
…there were nine people—and hundreds of thousands 2 years ago with Biden, and we had nine. We had it down to nine, and they…
Remarks at a Photographic Opportunity With Automobile Racing Champions From NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…have to do surgery. The patient is very, very sick. And Joe Biden handed us over a country that was in very serious trouble, economically…
…pull the trigger. This should have been done long ago, just like Biden should have stopped the border long ago. I mean, he allowed 21…
Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…gave me a little bit of a thing. And it's true. Under Biden, they soared like double, triple, quadruple. You couldn't even get them. They…
…to see you as my enemy." I closed Nord Stream 2. When Biden got in, he opened it up immediately. It serviced all of Europe…
…have a big—the hardest thing I had to do with Joe Biden is the nickname. Do I call him "Sleepy Joe" or "Crooked Joe…
Remarks on Domestic Coal Production
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…action to help American workers, miners, families, and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean coal once and for all. And it wasn't…
…leading countries, are using it—some exclusively. For 4 long years, Joe Biden and congressional Democrats tried to abolish the American coal industry. They did…
…got off. Those are the ones that didn't have the problems. The Biden energy policy was to put America last. "We want to be last…
Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports
Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…American worker, and we are finally putting America first. In Sleepy Joe Biden's last year in office, the United States hemorrhaged 100,000 manufacturing jobs…
…so much of it slipped away over the last 4 years under Biden. I campaigned on this policy throughout last year. And today that promise…
…President, and yet they paid hundreds of billions. So much so that Biden couldn't do anything. They wanted to try and terminate it, because he…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…get paid back the money that they gave, and we don't, because Biden is an incompetent President, and he should have asked for rare earth…
…We could be in for $350 billion. They have no idea because Biden wasn't a good bookkeeper, except for himself. And what happens is, we…
…as you know, for Austin for years. The—I don't know about Biden. I don't think Biden was looking for anything, but we were. And…
Remarks at the Iftar Dinner
Mar 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…now we're going to start filling them out. Because, as you know, Biden did nothing to fill them out. He did absolutely—we had the…
…What's the problem with eggs?" But the problem with eggs was Joe Biden. That was the problem. He let him get out of control. And…
Remarks on Signing the Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…like the chipmaking process. Your CHIP bill was a disaster, done by Biden. All he does is give tremendous amounts of— billions of dollars to…
…about. This is something that should have been done by Sleepy Joe Biden, but he was asleep at the wheel, other than when it came…
…within Yemen, the Houthis. And this should have been done by Joe Biden, and it wasn't. And that's caused this world a lot of damage…
Remarks at a Women's History Month Event
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…of eggs. Eggs were through the roof. You've got to see the Biden chart. It's, like, a rocket ship. And Trump is, like, this way…
…secret. I want to find out. But the chart looks great. It's Biden like this. And then we're like this. But we also—by the…
…now. But on day one, we're ending the inflation nightmare that Joe Biden created and caused but—just by his spending. Two things: his spending…
Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…in—it was called unforced error. It—they were let in by Biden—incompetently let in—and let in by the millions, actually. Twenty-one…
…a week. And also, the United States is—has paid, because of Biden, $350 billion on a war that should have never happened. If we…
…ask: Did he have the authority to allow millions of people? Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where…
Remarks at the Department of Justice
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times
…remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from hell came from Russia when they knew it came right…
…never been seen before. And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their cronies. To do the building of the last…
…the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell. We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin…
Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…I could have done it the easy way. I could have coasted. Biden left us a mess. He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high cost…
…going to get killed—lots of people. Sure. Absolutely. No, I think Biden gave us a horrible economy. He gave us horrible inflation, and I…
…you look at what's happened there: We caught the major terrorist, which Biden wouldn't have caught. Why didn't he catch him? I caught him. Five…
Remarks at the White House Digital Assets Summit
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…they not sold them. But they did sell them, mostly during the Biden administration, and not a good—not a good thing to have done…
…bureaucracy's war on crypto, which was really going on pretty wildly during Biden, until the election came about. About 5 months before the election, he…
Remarks on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on the Employment Situation in February and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…deal. That's what you want to hear. During the last year, the Biden administration saw a loss of more than 110,000 manufacturing jobs, or…
…lost more than 27,000 auto jobs in the final year of Biden. These are also high-paying jobs. These are very prime jobs. The…
…is presiding over a brandnew domestic manufacturing boom after major collapse under Biden. It was a collapse. All he did is keep adding new Government…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…unbelievable deal with China—$50 billion in purchases. And we're doing great. Biden, however, when he came in, he never—they never enforced that deal…
…me later. Maybe I shouldn't do this interview. I should be like Biden, not do any interviews. That's great. Women, we love you. Thank you…
…to know if we could just continue. They said, without us—look, Biden wasn't able to get anybody out. We came along, and they started…
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…chose not to come. Much easier that way. In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst President in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of…
…from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council. We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally…
…every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again. Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg…
Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…think it's—look, it's a great deal for us, because, you know, Biden very, very, foolishly—stupidly, frankly—gave $300 billion and—$350 billion, more…
…Europe, I'm saying they're just—they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden, because Joe Biden didn't have a clue. He just gave money hand…
…back to Bush, you go back to Obama, and go back to Biden— they took a lot. The only one they didn't get—you know…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…in health care. It takes a little while to kick in. But Biden ended it immediately upon coming in, which was a terrible travesty, in…
…even if you look at polling, they're very happy because, you know, Biden was throwing money around like it's cotton candy, and it's a very…
…remember the famous Javelins? That was me. That wasn't Obama. It wasn't Biden. It wasn't anybody else. It was me. And they wiped out a…
Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times
…addicted. They were sending them all into our ridiculous and very stupid Biden open border. Our border czar was Kamala. Haven't said that name in…
…candidates. They said, "Who did you run against?" Well, we ran against Biden, and we ran against Kamala Harris. But illegal border crossings now have…
…we lost over a trillion dollars to China this last year under Biden. Crooked Joe Biden. What do we like better: Crooked Joe or Sleepy…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Howard W. Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…know, Europe is also doing it in the form of a loan. Biden just gave them money. There was no loan, there was no security…
…have a big, beautiful ocean in between. But it does affect—and Biden should have never gotten us into this mess. We had an incompetent…
…signed long before we went in. This should have been signed by Biden. But Biden didn't know too much about what he was doing. The…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times
…approved. Actually, I got it approved twice. I got it approved, and Biden ended it. That was a shocker. But we just got it approved…
…country, but we are moving quickly to fix every single disaster Joe Biden created and make America stronger and more prosperous than ever before. Our…
…that, and they wasted monies at never-seen-before levels. If Joe Biden had simply held Federal spending at the prepandemic levels we had in…
Remarks Following a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…down. But they chose not to do it that way. And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue. What he—he was…
…it looked like that was going to be very good. And when Biden came in, as he always does, he screws it up. And they…
…bit early. But you know, we were not buying from Venezuela. When Biden came in, for whatever reason, instead of just taking the beautiful, as…
Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…other thing I'd like Doug to mention—the 635 million acres that Biden so viciously took out of our—our net worth. If you look…
…do it. I got it. And the first week in office, the Biden administration terminated that. ANWR is the biggest site, probably bigger than Saudi…
…They couldn't make a deal to get energy—any energy from the Biden administration. They just couldn't do it. There was nobody to deal with…
Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…the fact that—I believe that's the reason the war started, because Biden went out and said that they could join NATO, and he shouldn't…
…war that would have never happened if I were President. I think Biden is incompetent. And I think when he said that they could join…
…I think it could have happened a long time ago. I think Biden—number one, it shouldn't have started, but it did. And now all…
Remarks During a Swearing-in Ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…she was outrageously placed on a suspected terrorist watch list by the Biden regime—it was a very evil regime—after criticizing their appalling abuses…
…we've made a lot of progress. This should have been done by Biden, not by me, because this has been going on for now a…
…it in the form of a loan. And the United States, under Biden, didn't do loans. They just handed money. Every time somebody walked in…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
Feb 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…showing up to work because they were told not to. And then Biden gave them a 5-year pass, some of them—48,000 of…
…tell you, this is largely—much of this stuff is because of Biden. It's his fault. He allowed this country—what he did on our…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…really expected it for years. They really expected it sometime during the Biden administration, but they didn't do anything. As you know, I put tariffs…
…We took in hundreds of billions of dollars with those tariffs, and Biden wasn't able to get them out. He tried to, but it was…
…all looking for that particular individual. This was all let in by Biden and the group of stupid people—bad people and stupid people. Some…
Remarks on Signing a Proclamation on Gulf of America Day and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to New Orleans, Louisiana
Feb 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…this. When I came here, they were going to buy it, and Biden was going to approve it. All of a sudden, Biden didn't because…
…it. And we've done it with some people. We've done it with Biden himself—Biden himself. We think our country is not as safe if…
…that came up with the Space Force. I'm very proud of it. Biden tried to get out of it, and he was really rebuked by…
Remarks at a Republican Senate Conference in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…this—that stuff, right? Not with this group. They give it for Biden, but he doesn't get past the first page. Well, it does help…
Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…lost everything they owned, the—numerous people, many people dead. FEMA under Biden was a disaster. They didn't—they were almost not even—they essentially…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…heard back. I offered this—I offered to do it to the Biden administration—very active administration— —and they didn't—I didn't hear back. And…