Remarks at the Congressional Picnic
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a period of 4 months. So we've reduced the number of illegal border crossers. And you know that because you look at the numbers. And…
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Remarks on Signing Legislation Regarding Congressional Disapproval of Environmental Protection Agency Rules Relating to Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards in California and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…previous administration. I could go point after point, everything they did: open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. "Everybody, let's go transgender…
…because most of the bill is common sense. It's tax cuts. It's border wall funding. It's military funding properly spent. It's all things that are…
Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…stupid people or radical-left people or sick people. But regardless, open-border policy, the dumbest policy yet—I would say, even dumber than men…
…out. Their countries would bus them or drive them right to our border and say: "Go in there. You ever come back, we're going to…
…was? He wasn't a radical-left lunatic. He never dreamt about open borders. He never said that when he was of sound mind, which actually…
Remarks Following a Briefing on the Atlantic Hurricane and Wildfire Season and Preparedness Efforts
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…think he even knew about it. But when they opened up our borders for the whole world to come in—yes, we're going to get…
Remarks at an "Invest in America" Roundtable Discussion
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…tax cuts in the history of our country, including the most powerful border security measures ever, it delivers major economic relief to the American workers…
Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion With the Fraternal Order of Police
Jun 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…appropriate. Upon taking office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and we reduced the number of illegal border crossers released into the…
…plus. They're all coming in. It also includes the largest investment in border security in our Nation's history, equipping law enforcement with the tools to…
Remarks at the White House Summer Soirée
Jun 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…things. In a matter of weeks, we slashed the number of illegal border crossings released into the United States down to practically nothing. Three people…
Remarks at the United States Steel Corporation Mon Valley–Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…But what he did to this country is a disgrace—between the borders, millions and millions of peoples pouring through our borders from all countries…
…And I thought they were kidding, but they weren't. They wanted open borders, and what they let into our country can never be forgotten. The…
…999 percent. Can you imagine? That was our cut. It's been— the border is closed. But it's open—and it will always be open to…
Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony in Arlington, Virginia
May 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we went through. Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to…
Commencement Address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York
May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…to all manner of social projects and political causes, while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries' wars. We fought…
…that a central purpose of our military is to protect our own borders from invasion. Our country was invaded for the last 4 years, and…
…do. And on day one, I deployed our military to the southern border, and since that day, we've reduced the number of illegal border crossings…
Remarks at a U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council Breakfast Roundtable in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…want that. They don't want to have that anymore, whether it's the border, where people pour into our country without being even checked or looked…
…percent closed. Nobody thought that was possible. We had a very successful border the first time. I won the election the first time, in 2016…
Remarks to United States Servicemembers at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to this country is legendary. Allowing 21 million people through an open border, where anybody could walk into the United States of America, is something…
Remarks at the Saudi-United States Investment Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…day I took office, we inherited a colossal invasion on our southern border—an invasion like you'd never want to see here. Nobody should ever…
…same time last year. And last month, we had, in this massive border, three people that got in. That's quite a difference. And we have…
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 4 times
…It comes from China. It's amazing. And it comes through our southern border. It comes through our northern border too. It comes through Canada and…
Remarks at a Bill Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…it all up. He—what he did to this country, between the border and between all of the other problems—the wars, everything—what he…
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 2 times
…the Indo-Pacific; help stop the flood of Chinese fentanyl across our borders, which we have to do—we lost, I believe, 300,000 people…
…four years of misery, and you look at what's coming through the border and the job of getting murderers out of our country. So many…
Remarks on the 2027 National Football League Draft and an Exchange With Reporters
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…millions, illegally, into our country. They just flowed in through an open border policy that was insane. And what we've done is, we've offered—you…
…in this country. Illegal immigrants that came in illegally through an open border policy, which is insane. We talk about common sense. That's not common…
Commencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…the election. We've turned the page on endless wars, crippling debt, open borders, ruinous inflation, and the lack of respect for our country and for…
…In a matter of weeks, we've achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. And you've seen it, hundreds of thousands of people…
…media. They say you have to have that; you need strong, strong borders; and you need really free, fair, clean elections. You need those things…
Remarks on the National Day of Prayer
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…poorly, as you know. Millions and millions of people pouring into our borders from—from jails and mental institutions and gang members. It was terrible…
…is here or Tom Homan—but yesterday we had the lowest, safest border in history: 99.999. In other words, three people got in. Three…
Remarks on Domestic Business Investment
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…administration. It was an economic disaster. It was a disaster at the border like nobody had ever seen before. And you probably see, we've closed…
…and the plants, having to do with many other things, like secure borders and all of the many, many things. I could go down and…
…But I appreciate it. We have achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings in U.S. history, and we're at a level that nobody thought…
Remarks in Warren, Michigan
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 20 times
…when you think about it. We're for common sense. We like strong borders. We like good education. We like low interest rates. We like being…
…bit. After years of leaders who sent your money to defend the borders of distant foreign nations—that's what we did: We'd fight for other…
…not for ourself—you finally have a president who is defending our borders and our Nation. Right, Dr. Oz? Dr. Oz. After decades of politicians…
Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…was so bad. It was so bad. What they've done to the borders, what they've done all over the place. And it's really an honor…
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 4 times
…near that number. Hi. Oh, it's amazing what they've done on the border. It's—thank you for the question, because honestly, it's one of the…
…people to come in, but we have nobody coming in through the border, virtually. That—we were having hundreds of thousands of people a month…
…stopped—everybody admits, even the radical left: We have got the strongest border we've ever had, even stronger than what I had it for 4…
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
…that are incredible. But probably the biggest reason was because of the border and because of illegal immigration, and the people of this country want…
…you couldn't—look, what this man was thinking when they allowed open borders and people to come in—if you look at Venezuela, their crime…
…that, and we're doing it in record fashion. We have the safest border, the most secure border we've ever had. See the Declaration of Independence…
Remarks at an Easter Prayer Service and Dinner
Apr 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…history of our country: November 5. We're restoring our prosperity, securing our borders. We're rebuilding the U.S. military. We've—I did it once. Now I'm…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…most unbelievable job as somebody that's watching over our country at the border—— ——and with Tom Homan and your whole staff of tremendous people. So…
…that election. Look what happened to our country because of it: open borders, millions of people coming into our country. Russia and Ukraine, that would…
…those boxes. We got to have safe elections. We have to have borders. Ideally, we have to have a free press, which we don't have…
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
…of all, in a certain way, is what they did at the border. We had people pouring into our country by the millions. Many of…
…have been done long ago, just like Biden should have stopped the border long ago. I mean, he allowed 21 million people-plus into our…
Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times
…their policy—the Democrats—is horrible. It's horrible. Think of it. Open borders. Just—all of the horrible, stupid things they have. You don't have…
…All of these things—tariffs, the men in women's sports—everything—the borders, strong borders. We have the strongest border we've ever had. Today it…
…lost since NAFTA, when 21 million illegal aliens were brought across our borders—think of that—many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords…
Remarks on Domestic Coal Production
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…it was serious damage in so many other ways—not only the border, where people came rushing into our country from prisons and jails and…
…And this is what they allowed into our country with their open border policy of lunacy. And we're taking care of that, just like we're…
…up. And I knew that when I heard it was an open-border policy. I said, "If you do that, every country is going to…
Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports
Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…millions and millions of people to pour into our country with open borders, where the—it's so sad to see, even now. And I see…
…everybody—Homeland Security. Thank everybody. Appreciate it. And we now have a border that's the best border that we've ever had—even better than it…
…we had records then. We had the—we had the best, safest border. Four years ago, we the best border there ever was. And now…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Alina Habba as Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…of law enforcement—and I think we have to include ICE and Border Patrol. You know, Paul with Border Patrol—the whole group from Border…
Remarks at a Women's History Month Event
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country? Open borders. People from all over the world. Not South America. South America, but…
Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…playing in women's sports. They have transgender for everyone. They have open borders. They have all of their crazy policies that are, I think, 95…
…Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where millions of people poured into our country, totally unvetted and totally…
…plants—and they were going to sell the cars right across the border. We wouldn't have the jobs, we wouldn't have the profits, we wouldn't…
Remarks at the Department of Justice
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…sad. What they've done in 4 years to our country with the borders; with Afghanistan, the embarrassing—most embarrassing period of time; allowing the Russian…
…big factor. We have to have honest elections, we have to have borders, and we have to have courts and law that's fair. Well, we're…
…true, but it was close. And perhaps most importantly, we're securing our border and repelling the invasion of America. We have—you see the numbers…
Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…Canada should honestly become our 51st State. We wouldn't have a northern border problem. We wouldn't have a tariff problem. They don't have much—they…
…great as our cherished 51st State. You wouldn't have to worry about borders. You wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way, Canada…
Remarks on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on the Employment Situation in February and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…don't want to go back and forth and around and through the borders and across Mexico border and Canada border and all over. They want…
…They're very happy about what's happening. They won't have to go across borders. And you see the zigzag, and you have a fender made in…
…We shouldn't have 21 million people pouring into our country through open borders, many of whom are criminals, very bad criminals, including murderers, thousands of…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…had so many other things to do. We had to fix the border, which we did. We had to fix our military. We rebuilt our…
…shouldn't have to be spending anything on that. We had the safest border ever. Now we have, actually, as you saw—the numbers just came…
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times
…the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the…
…our country. And what a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were, by far, the lowest ever recorded—ever. They…
…child predators who were allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people—the Democrats, the Biden administration—the open border…
Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…more than us, because, as you know, that's right there. That's the border. This country really was like the fence on the border. It was…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we didn't have wars. We didn't have inflation. We had a strong border. We had everything going good. And then Biden got in, and he's…
Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times
…corrupt special interest who drained our wealth, attacked our liberties, obliterated our borders, and sucked our country dry. Not any longer. But, on November 5…
…go and vote for. They loved men playing in women's sports, open borders, little things like that. But don't tell them. Don't tell them. Keep…
…Americans. We won all of the cities and towns along the Texas border. Whereas, before I ran, we won none. We never used to win…
Remarks at a Black History Month Reception
Feb 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Americans. We're going to be fighting for all Americans. We've secured our border, and we're stopping the invasion of our country. You know, our border…
…dealers. They had everybody dropping in, and we had this ridiculous open border policy. They'd drop in. And I'll tell you, the people that were…
…in terms of the drugs and everything else. And we have the border shut down. We allow people to come in. We want people to…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…Biden allowed into our country with the ridiculous and very dangerous open-borders policy. They came from all over the world. They came from prisons…
…of common sense. We're a party of common sense. We want strong borders. We don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want to…
…of Mexico, because I complain constantly about people pouring in. Now our border is the strongest border we've ever had. We've gone from the worst…
Remarks Following a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…Mexico and then let them come through with this totally ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. So millions of people have come in…
…large numbers through Canada. In fact, when we closed up the one border, they came in through the other border. So Canada was—is not…
…that we accepted this. It's hard to believe that we allowed open borders, and we're taking in, you know, hundreds of thousands and millions of…
Remarks During a Swearing-in Ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We don't have any money," because they've given it away on the border. But you have nothing. What they did to North Carolina is a…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
Feb 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…get a kickback. So, that's what I got elected for—that and borders and military and a lot of things, but this is a big…
…It's his fault. He allowed this country—what he did on our border—what he did on our border is almost not as bad as…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…know, it's—to me, it's all common sense. Who wants an open border where— where prisons are dumped into our country, where prisoners are let…
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 2 times
…American people with, you know, men participating in women's sports, with open borders, with transgender for everybody, for—all the things that they're doing is…
…you know, we just set records for closure. We have the strongest border we've had in many years—since my term, but even—maybe even…
Remarks at a Republican Senate Conference in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…whatever reason, the Congo is prime territory to come into our southern border. They get them up to the border, and they let them in…
…hope they don't learn, because—you know, they're still with the open borders. "We want open borders." Open borders are never going to sell. Men…
Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…sports. No longer. It's over. But we're going to be securing our borders, defending our freedoms, and restoring the principle of meritocracy—merit. We're a…