Remarks Announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…in New York, but I think Brooklyn. It barely made it to California. He was sleeping in the car. He—I mean, he had nothing…
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Remarks on National Purple Heart Day
Aug 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…order to open the National Center for Warrior Independence in Los Angeles, California, which will house up to 6,000 homeless vets. It's going to…
Remarks on Domestic Investment by Apple Incorporated and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…that. And build a brandnew rare earth recycling line in Mountain Pass, California. I know that area. That's where they have a lot of truly…
…gallon. It's around $2.40 right now, many places—other than in California, where they tax you out of business, but—and a couple of…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…anywhere. By the time it gets down, even into certain parts of California, it's fed out into— stupidly, into the Pacific Ocean. If that water…
…they've done it all over the place, and they've done it in California, by the way. Before this, they've done it in California. So we'll…
Remarks on Signing the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…order to open the National Center for Warrior Independence in Los Angeles, California, which will house up to 6,000 homeless veterans. You know, until…
Remarks on Signing Executive Orders at the Artificial Intelligence Summit
Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…would ruin it. I just terminated all of the, as an example, California car emissions rules, which were a disaster—a disaster. It cost them…
Remarks at White House Reception for Republican Members of Congress
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…1.99 a gallon today in five different States. And now, in California—in California, he keeps adding taxes. You know, when you go to…
Remarks on Signing the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act and Exchange With Reporters
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…you, Greg. That's tough stuff. We're also grateful to be joined by California native, Anne Fundner, who lost her beautiful eldest son Weston to fentanyl…
Remarks at the White House Summit of Faith and Business Leaders
Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…and she saw the same girl she grew up with, Kelly, in California. Same girls. You know, that young age, they sort of rise to…
…1.98 cents. And I saw $1.95 at certain states. Not California, because every time it goes down, they add taxes onto it. You're…
Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on the "Alligator Alcatraz" Migrant Detention Facility and an Exchange With Reporters in Ochopee, Florida
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…wasted. And you know, you—like the railway that they have in California that cost, like, 40 times more than it was supposed to cost…
…out. And every farm, almost, in the country—but every farm in California, every farm in Iowa, almost all the farms went bankrupt. They had…
…to 4—$4 and going up to $5, $6, and $7. In California, it was $7.70. But we just hit, in five—five States…
Remarks on the United States Supreme Court Decision on Nationwide Injunctions From Lower Federal Courts and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…them a hard time. I mean, they don't have a Governor in California. They have a man that wants to give away everything to people…
…maybe have a Los Angeles. It would be like the rest of California—the rest of Los Angeles. They lost 25,000 houses in a…
Remarks on the Installation of New White House Flagpoles and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…eight bills. It's all in one. Well, you know, I beat the California mandate. Congress just passed a bill ending it. That was terrible. What…
…I ended that. And now they're coming out with more. No, in California, you know, I've got—we've got some gas stations where, just 2…
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 17 times
…good. This is really something. And it has to do with the California auto regulation CRA. It's been a disaster for this country. And I…
…here. We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating California electric vehicle mandate once and for all. So good. They said it…
…up in knots for years. And they'd pass these crazy rules in California, and would it—would be—17 States would go by them. The…
Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…want to say a few words about the situation in Los Angeles, California—have you heard of the place?—where I've deployed thousands of National…
…invasion and third-world lawlessness here at home, like is happening in California. As Commander in Chief, I will not let that happen. It's never…
…to them. Not only are these servicemembers defending the honest citizens of California, they're also defending our Republic itself. And they are heroes. They're in…
Remarks Following a Briefing on the Atlantic Hurricane and Wildfire Season and Preparedness Efforts
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…case, he said: "You know, our trees are much more flammable than California, but we don't have forest fires because we clean the floor. We…
…goes up. It virtually explodes. Well, we don't take the trees out. California is a disaster, what they've done in California. They don't do anything…
…ever like what we've seen, where we're sending billions of dollars to California all the time because, obviously, in California, they are not doing a…
Remarks at an "Invest in America" Roundtable Discussion
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…about he's an incompetent Governor. Look at the job he's doing in California. He's destroying one of our great States. And if I didn't get…
…philosophy. But it's lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did. We got it just in time…
…talk about the trains. We talk about all of the costs in California. You talk about all of the people that are flowing and destroying…
Remarks at a Bill Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…affected badly because you had bad management in those States, like in California with Newsom and, you know, people. So you had some bad management…
Commencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…she sees all the friends that she grew up with down in California, from all over the country. They're all the best swimmers. Then she…
Remarks on Domestic Business Investment
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…to worry about, "Do we have enough?" Because if you look at California, they have brownouts, blackouts, and everything else. They don't know what the…
…last thing you want to do is be hooking up to the California grid so that we can go in and you'll say: "Gee, we…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…an area we're talking about. It's an area the size of three Californias. They can't fish there. And so what do you do? How do…
…did it—— You mean they just, one day—just took away three Californias? It's such an honor to do this. You know, normally, I sign…
Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…wait a minute, this is election day. You ever see where, in California, they were counting votes four weeks later? And then they say—and…
Remarks on Domestic Coal Production
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…not be subject to the incredible blackout situation that's taking place in California, where they have blackouts all the time. It's an amazing thing with…
…heard, I released billions of gallons of water going in from upstate California, from the most northern parts of California. It probably comes in from…
…of gallons—billions, actually, they say, of gallons of water pouring into California from the Pacific Northwest, I guess they would say—mostly Pacific Northwest…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…now in Texas, and he had one in—he has one in California. Does a lot of his work here. And he's been really unfairly…
Remarks on Signing the Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…has a big plant in Texas. He has a big plant in California. And anybody that has plants in the United States, it's going to…
…comfortable, right? Good. That's good. So, go ahead. Well, I think that California is going to be tougher, because they are—they're doing badly on…
…You know, they—everything they touch turns bad. So a place like California would be tougher for education, but what I would see with California…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…area in between areas of trees. It stops the fires. And frankly, California should have been doing that for years. It's almost getting late. They're…
…What a shame. And by the way, the water is flowing in California. I hope you people have seen it. But the water is flowing…
…picture of it, please. You know, we had a little skirmish in California. I can't believe we had to do that. But we opened up…
Remarks During a Swearing-in Ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…know why it would be tougher, but it is. You give to California, and you go to various areas outside of Los Angeles, and you…
Remarks at a Republican Senate Conference in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…because I couldn't get onto the course. One—Palos Verde is in California, and beautiful—right on the Pacific. Every hole on the Pacific. And…
…courses are all empty. You're packed. You have the best course in California. You're packed. It's always packed, sir. You can't get on the course…
Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…flood-ravaged valleys of North Carolina to the flame-scorched bluffs of California. I went there. What a shame that is. I've never seen anything…
Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…great job with helping on tragedies, on problems like in North Carolina, California. He's always the first one there. The work he does is—his…
Remarks on Withdrawing United States Support for United Nations Organizations and Imposing Economic Sanctions on Iran and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…better than it does right now. Same thing with Los Angeles or California. You'd have Riverside, you'd have—you'd break it up into six or…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…We're going to stop that ridiculous war. Okay. I sent him to California to turn on the water. We turned it on. It was not…
…All we doing is giving Los Angeles and the entire State of California virtually unlimited water, which they could have done 5 years ago, which…
…think they were all happy. They have a lot of water in California. Too bad we didn't have it about 2 months ago, right? That…
Remarks on Signing the Laken Riley Act and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…and out of our military. The water has now begun flowing in California, as we continue to increase the flow in coming days. Nobody has…
…because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies—as we have in California and many other places, which we're ending; we're going to end them…
Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…And they came to me, and they said, "Sir, you're going to California tomorrow." I said, "Well, what about North Carolina?" "Well, we'll do that…
Remarks in a Briefing on Wildfire Recovery Efforts in Los Angeles, California
Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…standing behind you 100 percent. The First Lady and I are in California to express a great love for the people of California. We've had…
…can say. And it's been—it's been amazing. I have property in California, not too far away, actually. Right up the road in Palos Verdes…
…love. But I'm pleased to be joined by many of the great California leaders, both Democrat and Republican. And it's an honor to meet some…
Remarks During a Tour of Hurricane Helene Damage and an Exchange With Reporters in Swannanoa, North Carolina
Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I'm here after a few days of the administration. We're going to California, Los Angeles. They got hit hard, as you know. A lot of…
Remarks During a Briefing on Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts and an Exchange With Reporters in Fletcher, North Carolina
Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…to go to Los Angeles and see what was going on with California, why they aren't releasing the water. Millions and millions of gallons of…
…you can do that, but you're going to have to come to California too." And she said, "That's okay." And we got to fix that…
…slow. And we're going to make up for lost time. Well, in California, I have a condition. In California, we want them to have voter…
Remarks on Federal Disaster Assistance Efforts and an Exchange With Reporters Upon Arrival in Fletcher, North Carolina
Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
Well, thank you very much. Everybody thought I was going to California. I said: "No, no. I'm stopping in North Carolina first, because they've been…
…the people of North Carolina. It's so interesting. Everybody is talking about California, and that's a mess. But I said, "I'm not going to California…
…we're putting America first. We're putting, in this case, North Carolina and California—we're going to do a good job in California. That is a…
Remarks on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Development and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…water a week—and a day, even, in many cases—pours into California, goes all through California, down to Los Angeles. And they turned it…
…we want the water that they're throwing away to be used for California, and that includes the farmers of California. You know, when you drive…
…order demanding that they immediately let that water come down to—through California. Farmers, even people living in Beverly Hills—now, those people have been…
Remarks Following the Inaugural Ceremony at the United States Capitol
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…nobody has ever seen numbers like that. And you know, places like California, we did great. But you know, when they send out, like, 38…
…pouring back, the whole thing—you know, they passed a law in California that if you work in an election bureau and if you so…
…get involved, because I think we would have won the State of California because, you know, if you look at—my numbers with Hispanic were…