Remarks at the Congressional Picnic
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…are way down. Energy prices are down. Mortgage rates are down. And inflation is down. Other than that, how are you doing? Right? They've been…
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Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…are way down. Energy prices are down. Mortgage rates are down. And inflation is down. Other than that, how are you doing? Right? They've been…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…going to keep going down a little bit, right? Because we have inflation under control perfectly. You probably saw the records. Everyone's on television saying…
…in $88 billion in tariffs in 2 months—$88 billion—with no inflation. And if we're smart, there won't be. Now, we'd like to get…
…And I just say this because we want to get rid of inflation, and we have, but we're going to be paying more for debt…
Jun 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…investments that are going into our country. And if you notice, the inflation report came out this morning. We're at about 2-percent inflation. Can…
May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…you saw. The numbers were through the roof and there was no inflation. And they said, "You know, Trump was right again." They were all…
…can never forget what they've done. And it's the single—we've beaten inflation. Look at what we've done. Look at the numbers that came out…
…released today at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it showed no inflation and tremendous income jumps for workers and for the people of our…
May 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…war. You wouldn't have had the war. You wouldn't have had had inflation. You wouldn't have had October 7. That would have never happened because…
…country. You wouldn't have had any of it. You wouldn't have had inflation, because energy costs—look what happened. I brought inflation down to practically…
May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…4 years ago. We had the greatest economy, and we had no inflation. Remember that. We had no inflation, and yet we had hundreds of…
…dollars of tariffs that I put on China. Yet we had no inflation. We had no big cost differential. Oftentimes—and I've seen—I don't…
May 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…and what we've done. We have—you know, we have almost no inflation. Our energy prices are way down. Our gasoline costs are way down…
…we're—we are just doing great. I mean, think of it. No inflation, and we're taking in billions—hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…But groceries, gasoline, energy, and all other prices are down with no inflation. We have no inflation. And in a few short weeks, we've created…
May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a better life, because we—we just came out of the worst inflation, in my opinion, in the history of our country. They say 48…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…You wouldn't have had that disaster in Afghanistan. You wouldn't have had inflation. All these things would have not taken place. So sad to see…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…We've turned the page on endless wars, crippling debt, open borders, ruinous inflation, and the lack of respect for our country and for its leaders…
…I don't know. We've created 350,000 new jobs and brought core inflation down to its lowest level in many, many years. Energy is down…
…And you know, when energy drops that much, you don't have much inflation. It's hard to have inflation. It was just announced that in the…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…take place, and it's a horrible thing. And you wouldn't have had inflation. Think of it. You wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had…
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…on American energy, pushed massive tax hikes, and gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. In Biden's final year, the United…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…much. Thank all the fellas. Thank them all. But we're ending the inflation nightmare, the worst that we've had probably in the history of our…
…days have also produced historic results in the battle to defeat Biden's inflation disaster and bring jobs and wealth back to America and bring them…
…Think of it. And they're saying—and—and you know what? And inflation is basically down, and interest rates came down despite the fact that…
Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…be doing really well. And hopefully, he'll be doing— we don't have inflation. Groceries are down. When I first came in—you people were there…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…embarrassing day in the history of our country—would have never happened. Inflation would have never happened. By the way, prices are down. Groceries are…
…let you know, though, because I keep hearing about fraud—prices and inflation. Prices are coming down, not going up. Only the fake news says…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…And, hey, look what happened during my first term. We had no inflation, and yet I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs…
…would tell me about— they're down close to 87 percent. And core inflation has dropped to the lowest levels in 4 years. And as I…
…and I said Russia-Ukraine would have never happened. All this stuff. Inflation would have never happened. Afghanistan disaster would have never happened. Most embarrassing…
Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…made the very tired predictions earlier this year, but in February, core inflation dropped to the lowest rate in four years. And the price of…
…that they haven't seen in a long time. We had virtually no inflation under my term. We had virtually no inflation for 4 years, but…
…the highest in the history of our country. They had the highest inflation in the history of our country, brought up by energy and bad…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…