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.
“Covid” said in 34 of 175 transcripts, 58 times.
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Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I happen to think, is amazing. A lot of people think that COVID is amazing. You know, there are many people that believe strongly in…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…I did a lot during my first term, but then we had COVID, and we had to focus on other things. You couldn't be tariffing…
…but then I had to end it a little bit because of COVID. We focused on that. But no, it's a very important decision. And…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We took in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs, but when COVID came back, we focused on that. We did a really good job…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I was all set to do it, and then we had the COVID come up, and I had to focus on that, because we had…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…had the strongest economy in the history of our country. And despite COVID, we had the strongest economy in the history of our country, and…
Aug 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…your number. We're doing well. It's amazing. And that's taking into consideration COVID—— ——which, a lot of times, you don't have to do that. But…
Jul 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. But when COVID came, the last thing I was going to do is tell France…
…we're going to hit you with tariffs. We had to fight the COVID situation when that came. But if you look at my first term…
Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…had a service outside, and the reason outside because you had the COVID and you could go outside—they'd arrest everybody for even having the…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…was rigged—millions and millions of votes. It had to do with COVID and a lot of things, but it really had to do with…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to blow it away. But during my time and especially prior to COVID, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country. I…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…it in my first term, and they didn't do it. We had COVID, and they didn't do it. And I told them to do it…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…directed the reinstatement of all patriots expelled from our military by the COVID vaccine mandate, which should've never happened. They're being returned at their former…
May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…along very well with President Xi. That relationship was greatly disturbed by COVID, when COVID came in. But we get along very well now. I…
…was hurt with a lot of people, a lot of countries when COVID came in. But I think we're going to have a very good…
…You know, it's very closed. We almost had it last time before COVID, and that didn't work out. But we made a great deal with…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…first to enter the halls of this university in the aftermath of COVID–19. Following a difficult senior year of high school, many of you…
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…percent. The other markets were up almost 100 percent, and that's despite COVID and all of the crazy things happening. But we had a tremendous…
Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…I'm not going to say it—— No, I'm not going to mention COVID. I'm not going to say, "Oh, I'm going to play hardball with…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…different scamming operations. It was a very corrupt election. And they used COVID to cheat. And we're going to find out about this guy too…
…because we want them coming back. You know, I—we realized during COVID that we don't make our drugs and our pharmaceuticals in this country…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…started the process, but then we had to fix up from the COVID mess caused by China. We had to fix up from that, and…
…back the reins, the stock market was higher than it was before COVID coming in. So, you know, we did a great job, but we…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Xi. I have over the years, but, you know, you just—when COVID came, that was the end. That was it. That was called the…
Mar 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…time. We had one that was terminated because of a thing called COVID. I don't know if anybody's heard of that, but that was never…
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…greatest economy in the history of our country. And then we had COVID, which we had to straighten out, so I didn't want to be…
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…did it, to a certain extent, in the first administration. But with COVID coming in, we had to focus on that toward the end. But…
…else took in 10 cents from China. They never did. But when COVID came along, we had to focus on COVID. We did a great…
…over with a market that was higher than it was previous to COVID coming in. But this is very much about companies and countries that…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…any servicemember who was expelled from the Armed Forces due to the COVID vaccine mandate. They will be returned to their former rank with full…
Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…We've never done that. We were getting ready to do it until COVID hit. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…show up to work. This is a new phenomenon, you know, since COVID. Show up to work in person like the rest of us. So…
…actually an incredible success—we had the greatest economy in history until COVID, and even after that, we did great. The stock market was higher…
…that whole thing, it was higher than it was just prior to COVID coming in, which is a pretty amazing thing. But we did a…
Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…do that, we'll be signing an Executive order having to do with COVID and schools. Lindsey. Okay, and that will—meaning they want to clear…
Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…done a long time ago. I would have done it, but then COVID hit. I was getting ready to do this years ago in first…
…called China, and China was very open to it. And then the COVID hit, and then we had a rigged election. But now there's no…
Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…our country has been so badly hurt. We're very hurt by what COVID did to religion. It really hurt it badly. People couldn't go to…
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that was lost and—and, most importantly, the lives lost because of COVID will—is not something that anybody could ever even imagine. It's probably…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…to work. They were—you know, it started more or less with COVID but actually, even before COVID. But it started with the COVID. They…
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…going to their Federal offices in many, many years, from even before COVID, but they have nevertheless been paid. Some have worked. Some haven't worked…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…any servicemember who was expelled from the armed forces due to the COVID vaccine mandate—and we will restore them to their former rank with…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…the history of our country. We had the most productive economy. Until COVID came, we had the most productive in the history of our country…
…We always had a very good relationship. It was very strained with COVID coming out of Wuhan. Obviously, that strained it. I'm sure it strained…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…servicemembers who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full backpay. And I will sign an order to…