Official transcripts

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.

“DEI” said in 7 of 153 transcripts, 12 times.

Counted forms: dei, deis, dei's.

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Remarks at a Dinner for the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

May 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

…In addition, the programming was out of control with rampant political propaganda, DEI, and inappropriate shows. We had some very inappropriate shows, to put it…
…people—we're paying them $4- or $500,000 a year to teach DEI. In just 12 weeks, our new Board has balanced the budget—think…
…was $25 million under. It's balanced now for the fiscal year. Eliminated DEI initiatives in all cases, brought back family-friendly programming that will attract…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

…what we're doing. We should use it ourselves. And $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, the most ever paid. Nothing even…

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

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

…entire Federal Government—and the private sector and notified every single Government DEI officer that their job has been deleted. They're gone. They're fired. You're…

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

Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

…the entire Federal Government and private sector and notified every single Government DEI officer that their jobs have been deleted. They're all deleted. And it's…

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

Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

…I don't know. It doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. DEI is—would have ruined our country, and now it's dead. I think…
…up, and they're very happy about it. He had a lot of DEI. Everybody did. But he has not been a fan. It would have…

Remarks on Signing the Laken Riley Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

…an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement. We canceled $181 million in DEI training contracts. This is just for the training of people in DEI…

Remarks on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Development and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

…We're going to drill, baby, drill like never before. We ended destructive DEI mandates across the Federal Government and returned our country to a merit…