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“Afghanistan” said in 28 of 116 transcripts, 44 times.
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Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…us. If we have stupid people running it, like you had in Afghanistan, when you look at that— first of all, Afghanistan should have been…
…be that way. And we're celebrating because I think the day in Afghanistan was the saddest period of time in the history of our country…
May 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…money to give to Hamas or Hizballah. You wouldn't have had that Afghanistan—most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. You wouldn't have…
May 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Ryan joined the Army soon after graduation, and after three tours in Afghanistan, he deployed to Iraq. He and his unit were tasked with hunting…
May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Lieutenant Colonel Michael McMahon made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation in Afghanistan. Today, Lieutenant Colonel McMahon rests not far from here in the West…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…else. It wouldn't have happened. We wouldn't have had the disaster of Afghanistan, the leaving. We were getting out, but we were getting out with…
…the al bagrab , the one that caused all of the problems in Afghanistan. Caused unbelievable destruction. We lost 13 great soldiers. I got to know…
…Ukraine. All of those things, they would have never happened. But the Afghanistan withdrawal—not the fact that they withdrew, but the fact that they…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…13 American servicemembers—that Abbey Gate, that horrible, horrible disaster—during this Afghanistan withdrawal. You know, that's another thing that we don't even think about…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…have Russia fighting with Ukraine. You wouldn't have had that disaster in Afghanistan. You wouldn't have had inflation. All these things would have not taken…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had the horror show at Afghanistan, which I think is what gave Putin the resolve to go in…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…know those families very well; they're devastated—during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and brought him home. I mean, we brought this guy home to…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…you wouldn't have had all the problems in the Middle East. The Afghanistan embarrassment—probably the most embarrassing day in the history of our country…
Apr 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…entirely rebuilt. Then we had a catastrophe known as Biden. And in Afghanistan, he gave so much of the equipment away, but still, it was…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…term. Rebuilt it entirely. Beautiful. And then some was given away to Afghanistan so stupidly—the most embarrassing day in the history of our country…
…Ukraine, that would have never happened. October 7 would have never happened. Afghanistan, the way that they withdrew with 13 dead, but so many killed…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…would have never happened. All this stuff. Inflation would have never happened. Afghanistan disaster would have never happened. Most embarrassing moment in the history of…
…biggest in the world. I was going to keep it, not for Afghanistan—because it's 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons…
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…We rebuilt our military. We gave too much of it away to Afghanistan. This character, what—I mean, he gave billions and billions of dollars…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…National Guard after high school. Ten years ago, following a deployment to Afghanistan—you all read about this—Alex and his friends were on a…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…have had inflation. You wouldn't have had the type of withdrawal from Afghanistan that you witnessed, which was probably one of the primary reasons that…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…they've done in 4 years to our country with the borders; with Afghanistan, the embarrassing—most embarrassing period of time; allowing the Russian situation—it…
…it was—it was a sad thing. And if you look at Afghanistan, that—that was probably what got Putin started, because when he looked…
…than died in the Korean war or the Iraq war or the Afghanistan war—all of them combined. That's why I placed large tariffs on…
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We didn't have that disaster that took place with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. And you look at what's happened there: We caught the major terrorist…
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…military only to watch Biden give so much of it away to Afghanistan, if you can believe it. That's not even believable. It's not even…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…in the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan—not that they were withdrawing; it was the way they withdrew. Perhaps…
…badly—over 42 people—so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan. What a horrible day. Such incompetence was shown that when Putin saw…
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…would not have happened in Israel. And inflation wouldn't have happened. And Afghanistan, disastrous—the way they withdrew—not the fact that they withdrew but…
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…you see what happened. You see what happened to our country: inflation, Afghanistan—that horrible withdraw from Afghanistan. I think when Russia saw what happened…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of it—although, a lot of it, but very small, relatively, in Afghanistan, the Taliban has it. You know, they have their parade every year…
…know, we give them—I don't think anyone knows this. We give Afghanistan about 2 or 2½ billion dollars a year—do you know that…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…world, but we don't have the greatest top, top leadership. That's why Afghanistan was such a horrible situation and so embarrassing and so many other…
…years. I rebuilt it. We gave a lot of it away to Afghanistan, to the Taliban, stupidly—but that's a very small amount, relative. It…
Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and these stupid people—the bad generals—how badly they did with Afghanistan. I was going to pull out, but we were pulling out with…
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…would have liked him—you know, we should have had you in Afghanistan instead of the characters we had. We'd have—it would have turned…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…other things that took place that were so bad. You look at Afghanistan, how embarrassing that was. I think Afghanistan really started the problem with…
…I was going to get out. And I wasn't keeping Bagram for Afghanistan. I was keeping it for China, because it's one hour away from…
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…horrible during that administration. When you look at what took place in Afghanistan, the way they got out—not that they got out, but the…