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Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we didn't want, and they'd be Democrat things. But they want open borders. They want men playing in women's sports. They want transgender for everybody…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…And no country can afford that. No country. And we have the border stopped up. We have it closed. We had nobody for 4 months…
…have a big fight over that. We have a fight over open borders. They still want open borders. We're having a fight over men in…
…right now. I mean, can you imagine we're actually talking about open borders? And we now have a great border, and we have a great…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. We didn't have people coming in from…
…want the credit for 46. I don't want to have their open borders and people coming in from all over the world, including jails and…
…because people aren't believing it. We need an honest press. We need borders. We need borders, we need an honest press, we need fair elections…
Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…crazed. They don't know what they're doing. They want to have the border opened up so that criminals can pour in. You know, we're doing…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 15 times
…country even close. America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any…
…The numbers far surpass my record-setting first term. On our southern border, we have successfully repelled a colossal invasion. And for the last 4…
…they came. They just poured into our country with the ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. Our message is very simple: If you…
Sep 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Charlie Kirk Memorial 1 time
…did. And we have to bring back religion to America, because without borders, law and order, and religion, you really don't have a country anymore…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Governor. "Do you know, sir, you won every single area on the border of Texas? All Hispanic. Eighty-eight percent, 92 percent. All these towns…
…that. But we stopped the flood of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders, and for 4 months in a row, the numbers of illegals admitted…
…a year, 2 years, there was millions of people coming across our border from mental institutions, from prisons—drug dealers, gangs—the toughest gangs anywhere…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…they want to shut down the country. They want to have open borders. They want to stop the fighting of crime, where we've been very…
…think these people are crazy. You know, again, anybody who wants open borders and don't want to fight—they don't want to fight crime. They…
…nobody is coming in because we've succeeded in closing—we've closed the border very successfully. I think you will agree. We had nobody come in…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of the things we're doing, which I'm very proud of, is the border. We now have a totally closed border, totally secure. For 3 months…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 5 times
…person was killed. Now you're not seeing it all. It's like the border. Millions of people—a year ago, millions of people poured into our…
…months, there have been zero, as reported by, largely, Democrats, actually. The border is secure. The country is secure. We've got the hottest country anywhere…
…doing, where they're throwing bricks at cars of the—of ICE and Border Patrol. And they come in a beautiful new car. They're so proud…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Okay? What's that all about? Men playing in women's sports. Wants open borders. Again, wants—they want, actually—after what we've gone through, with millions…
…they poured in. Now we have none coming in. We have—the border has been sealed for a long time—actually, almost since I got…
…We need legislation"? I didn't have any legislation. I said, "Close the borders," and now the borders—for the last 4 months, not one person…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…Okay? He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things—he was never for open borders. I've…
…was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country…
…ships out on sea. You know, we have nobody coming through our border anymore. Nobody. How—doesn't that feel good, to know that you don't…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…now we have total safety. We have total security. And for the border, in 3 months, zero people. These are done by liberal people that…
…hundreds of miles of wall. I built the same wall that the Border Patrol asked me to build. It wasn't my first choice. I wanted…
…you wouldn't have been able to see through it. So I had Border Patrol in, and they tested everything else. And we gave them steel…
Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…in DC. They feel so safe already. And you know, at the border, we had—Frank, we had zero people come in. And this is…
…I need"—I had no legislation. I just said, "We're closing the borders." And the whole world understood it, because they respect your country again…
…does what we tell them to do. Because we had the two borders. We had the northern border, southern border. And they were both horrible…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…afraid anymore. And we'll—this will get—this will be like the border. We started off with millions and millions of people coming in from…
…going to have this in good shape. And don't forget, in the border, everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back…
…I never went to Congress for anything. I just said, "Close the border," and they closed the border. And that was the end of it…
Aug 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that was just starting. That— 2,000 people were dead on the border, but it was just starting. And I was talking to one of…
Aug 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…That was one of the many issues that I talked about—open borders, the economy, taxes, all of the things—but that was certainly one…
…and eighty-eight murderers were allowed into our country with Biden's open-border policy, with our border czar, who never spoke to the Border Patrol…
…by the fact that they say it. We're very tough on the border, and people can come into our country, but they have to come…
Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…almost impossible for people to do business. Not even talking about the border, where millions and millions of people flowed into our country—many from…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…as you know, in June, we had zero people come through the border, right? Zero people come through the border. So we're doing a real…
…American history, the largest spending cut in American history, and the largest border security investment in American history. And we got no tax on tips…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…in American history, the most deregulation in American history, and the largest border security investment in American history and the biggest success on the border…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…the world. We had a country—we were a laughingstock with the borders, people pouring in. Can you imagine? Last month, in the month of…
…giving us any favors. They had zero people come in through our border. Can you imagine that? From literally hundreds of thousands and millions pouring…
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…far. They did nothing. For four long years, Joe Biden surrendered our borders to the most evil and vicious traffickers, networks, and everything else on…
…a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing nothing. This open-borders nightmare flooded our country with fentanyl and with people that shouldn't be…
…Within moments of taking office, I deployed the U.S. military to our border and unleashed the patriots of ICE and Border Patrol to defend our…
Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…bad ones, but he's the worst ever. What he did at our border can never be forgotten. Twenty-five million people allowed to pour into…
…did you know that? They said we had nobody, zero crossed our border. That's the first time that ever happened. Zero. I—did you hear…
…we can never, ever forget it, from the rigged elections to the border to the transgender from—for everybody, from men playing in women's sport…
Jul 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…is really incredible and in so many different ways, including with the border and every different way. Admired by everybody. Secretaries Kristi Noem, Brooke Rollins…
…or enabled more than 1,500 rescues. Amazing—1,500. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard have deployed numerous search- and-rescue…
Jul 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…you have the biggest tax cut, the biggest spending cut, the largest border security investment in American history. We want to have strong borders. And…
…thing is, we want to have great elections too. You need strong borders and elections. And my people have promised me that we're going to…
…are going to be fair. You need two things: You need strong borders, and you need fair elections. Now, we're going to make sure on…
Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…Medicaid and food stamps—and allows us to hire 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 10,000 new ICE agents—and they are great…
…happened. Very simply, the "One Big Beautiful Bill" would deliver the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest military on Earth…
…I think I heard? But we've achieved the lowest level of illegal border crossings in U.S. history. Zero illegals. Think of it. We had zero…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times
…Thank you, Joe. Joe is great. With the help of those incredible Border Patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily border crossings…
…why the "One Big Beautiful Bill" includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents. And I've gotten to…
…the Border Patrol and ICE very well, unlike Kamala. She was the border czar, but she never saw the border. She never made one phone…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…what they've made us do. This is all because of an open-border policy where 25 million people flowed in from all over the world…
…We had—you know, when I left, we had a very powerful border. We had no problem. He opened it up, day one. He just…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…be. This is a very important thing. We're setting records at the border. You know, we had no people come through last month. Zero. No…
…problem with this. There was never anything like this. We had great borders. It was bad when I came in. Within 3 months, I fixed…
…come in, the difference is this was 20 times worse. Their open-border policy did so much damage to our country, and we're fixing it…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…everybody else, what they're doing at DOJ and all over—FBI, ICE, Border Patrol—these are incredible people. They're trying to keep our country safe…
…approving it. But think of what they're not approving. They're not approving border security. We've done a great job at the border, but we have…
…We have no money for that. We have no money for the border. We have no money for so many things. But if the Democrats…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 24 times
…saying that, virtually everybody—the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to secure our borders, turbocharge our economy, and bring back the American dream. That's what's happening…
…a record tax cut, a record spending cut, a record investment in border security. We've done so well on the border. You know, last month…
…a—but, you know, people forget about that. They don't care. The border has been fixed. I wanted to talk about the border 2 days…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…biggest scandals. He wasn't making a decision. He was never for open borders, where people came in from all over the world—from prisons and…
…mentally insane. He was never for that. He was never for open borders, and he was never for—if you think, he was never for…
…a really good question. No, we had record-good numbers on the border, and people are coming in, but they have to come in legally…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…into the country. You know, if you come in through the southern border, you have no problem. You can be a criminal, you can be…
…sign, because say what you want about Biden, he wasn't for open borders. He wasn't for transgender for everybody. He wasn't for men playing in…
…to ask me that. Zero, yes. Because we really have a tight border. Now, we have let a lot of people in, but they came…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a period of 4 months. So we've reduced the number of illegal border crossers. And you know that because you look at the numbers. And…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…previous administration. I could go point after point, everything they did: open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. "Everybody, let's go transgender…
…because most of the bill is common sense. It's tax cuts. It's border wall funding. It's military funding properly spent. It's all things that are…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…stupid people or radical-left people or sick people. But regardless, open-border policy, the dumbest policy yet—I would say, even dumber than men…
…out. Their countries would bus them or drive them right to our border and say: "Go in there. You ever come back, we're going to…
…was? He wasn't a radical-left lunatic. He never dreamt about open borders. He never said that when he was of sound mind, which actually…
Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…think he even knew about it. But when they opened up our borders for the whole world to come in—yes, we're going to get…
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…tax cuts in the history of our country, including the most powerful border security measures ever, it delivers major economic relief to the American workers…
Jun 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…appropriate. Upon taking office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and we reduced the number of illegal border crossers released into the…
…plus. They're all coming in. It also includes the largest investment in border security in our Nation's history, equipping law enforcement with the tools to…
Jun 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…things. In a matter of weeks, we slashed the number of illegal border crossings released into the United States down to practically nothing. Three people…
May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…But what he did to this country is a disgrace—between the borders, millions and millions of peoples pouring through our borders from all countries…
…And I thought they were kidding, but they weren't. They wanted open borders, and what they let into our country can never be forgotten. The…
…999 percent. Can you imagine? That was our cut. It's been— the border is closed. But it's open—and it will always be open to…
May 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we went through. Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to…
May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…to all manner of social projects and political causes, while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries' wars. We fought…
…that a central purpose of our military is to protect our own borders from invasion. Our country was invaded for the last 4 years, and…
…do. And on day one, I deployed our military to the southern border, and since that day, we've reduced the number of illegal border crossings…
May 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…want that. They don't want to have that anymore, whether it's the border, where people pour into our country without being even checked or looked…
…percent closed. Nobody thought that was possible. We had a very successful border the first time. I won the election the first time, in 2016…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to this country is legendary. Allowing 21 million people through an open border, where anybody could walk into the United States of America, is something…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…day I took office, we inherited a colossal invasion on our southern border—an invasion like you'd never want to see here. Nobody should ever…
…same time last year. And last month, we had, in this massive border, three people that got in. That's quite a difference. And we have…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…It comes from China. It's amazing. And it comes through our southern border. It comes through our northern border too. It comes through Canada and…
May 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…it all up. He—what he did to this country, between the border and between all of the other problems—the wars, everything—what he…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…the Indo-Pacific; help stop the flood of Chinese fentanyl across our borders, which we have to do—we lost, I believe, 300,000 people…
…four years of misery, and you look at what's coming through the border and the job of getting murderers out of our country. So many…
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…millions, illegally, into our country. They just flowed in through an open border policy that was insane. And what we've done is, we've offered—you…
…in this country. Illegal immigrants that came in illegally through an open border policy, which is insane. We talk about common sense. That's not common…