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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.

“Border” said in 26 of 51 transcripts, 119 times.

Counted forms: border, borders, border's.

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Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 18, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …just saying that he was a horrible President. Whether it was the borders or this, he was just a horrible, corrupt President. You want to…
  2. …with men in women's sports and with transgender for everybody and open borders and all of the horrible things—and now the new thing is…
  3. …country. I said for a long time at rallies everywhere—you need borders and you need free and fair elections—those two things. Otherwise, you…

Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …I won because of immigration. I think I won because of the border. I had a bad border, where millions of people were coming into…
  2. …our country illegally. Zero. So we went from a bad, incompetently run border to the most competently run border that anybody has ever seen. I…
  3. …anything about her. She was a horrible Vice President. She was our border czar, but she never went to the border. She never once called…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …They're sending—they continue to send people that we rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country—Venezuela. They've been very…
  2. …just getting a little off subject, but we have now the safest border we've ever had. And I think, in many respects, we probably have…
  3. …has a tremendous problem, and we do too. But we've sealed our borders up. We have nobody coming in, and we have hundreds of thousands…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …job they did for this country. And I just hope, between the border and this and so many other—inflation—what a horrible administration. The…
  2. …I noticed—after I was out, I noticed soldiers forming at the border. And then I heard horrible, stupid things being said from the other…
  3. …if—it's called the freewheeling autopen. Like, Biden was never for open borders. Biden was never for transgender for everyone. So I don't think he…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …with all of the good things in there: economic development, money—tremendous border money. Now you're loaded up on the border, and I don't think…
  2. …by allowing people to come in here, just totally unchecked, unvetted, open borders—open borders. The whole world was dumped into our country, from prisons…
  3. …really knows why. I mean, why would you want to have open borders and criminals pouring into our country? Why would you want to have…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …didn't know many of the things. Look, he was never for open borders. He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men…
  2. …of the things I ran on was that. I ran on the border. We have the best border in the history of our country: 99…
  3. …job. But nobody mentions that anymore. Remember, a few months ago, the border was a total disaster. People were coming in by the hundreds of…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to a Meeting With Republican Members of Congress

May 20, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said: "There's nobody that could want…
  2. …president that didn't sign anything. He autopenned almost every—he opened the borders of the United States of America. And I kept saying, "Who would…
  3. …approved it. You take a look, he would have never approved open borders. Go ahead. Another one. Oh, yes, sure. You have a couple that…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 14 times

  1. …weren't fact. In a few short weeks, we've achieved the most secure border in American history, by far— 99.9 percent, which is a number…
  2. …the legislature to get legislation passed in order to create a secure border. You didn't. You just had to have the right President and the…
  3. …we have set the alltime record for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. The number of illegal border crossers released into the…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders—I'm going to get them out." And I got a lot of…
  2. …serious criminals. I'm not saying just criminals because they came into the border illegally. I'm saying they're criminals at the highest level. Murderers. Many of…
  3. …that, but we've done much better. We have, right now, 99-percent border. It's at 99 percent. Nobody thought that would even be—nobody's coming…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …what they did and what that party did to our country—open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said…
  2. …I can say it. But what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It's a sin, what they…
  3. …great. Kristi, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing, how we're—— Thank you very much. Incredible, right? The…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 9 times

  1. …beautiful bill. It's tax cuts, regulation cuts, and many other things—the border, a lot of money for the border, where you're doing a fantastic…
  2. …down national debt, reducing taxes, creating good budgets, helping Kristi with the border and all of the other things. We built—I built hundreds of…
  3. …to have hundreds of thousands of people standing there pouring through the border in Tijuana, Mexico, this weekend, they had nobody. You had a man…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border. Who would want an open border? How stupid is that? But he…
  2. …the jails emptied out right into our country, right along the open border on the—on Mexico—generally, the Mexico—open. They came in from…
  3. …too, by the way, a lot, but generally speaking, on the southern border. And what a shame it is that we are now working very…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …little bit about what's happening and how well we've done at the border. That's great. Good job. Yesterday—there was a plaza that you know…
  2. …country. Yesterday I was speaking to somebody—I was checking on the border, and they said there was literally nobody in this massive plaza. You…
  3. …person. This is the people they were letting in through their open border policy. It was terrible. But I want to just congratulate you and…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …incredible—and Kristi. They've done a great job in terms of the border. But the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of…
  2. …comes through Canada. And as Mexico gets stronger, in terms of the border, it goes up to Canada, and a lot of drugs are coming…
  3. …have never been here, that the Biden administration, with their stupid open borders, should have never allowed. They came in from prisons and jails and…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …Thank you very much. Great job. In just over 1 month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before…
  2. …I got elected based on taxes and based on many things, the border, but also based on balancing budgets and getting our country back into…
  3. …look at that very strongly. But we're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE. The ICE agents have been unbelievable. Border Patrol— their…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a National Governors Association Meeting

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …all over the world be allowed to empty jails into an open border. They opened—they—emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum—gang…
  2. …disaster that we inherited. And we inherited a lot of them, the border being, I think— actually, I think it's the most difficult one of…
  3. …So, on day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country, because we were being invaded…

Remarks at a Republican Governors Association Meeting

Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …in there, and then you just go. Because there's no way—open borders with prisoners coming in. Jails. The worst—some of the worst murderers…
  2. …go and say, "I think it's a brilliant idea to have open borders, to allow prisons and mental institution people to pour in from all…
  3. …accomplishment. On day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border. I sent our military to the border to secure the sovereign territory…