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“Cartel” said in 21 of 181 transcripts, 45 times.
Counted forms: cartel, cartels, cartel's.
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Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…needed focus on defeating threats in the western hemisphere. Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and…
…in combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that. And we've put them—a lot…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 3 times
…economy. Joe Biden's policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners—prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration also…
…did this. To protect our citizens, I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as—and you see this, and you see it happening right before…
…kill hundreds of thousands of people. I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations, along with two bloodthirsty transnational gangs—probably the…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…over. We designated Tren de Aragua, MS–13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which nobody else did. And we're hitting them…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 1 time
…they do come by land. And you know what? We're telling the cartels right now, we're going to be stopping them too. When they come…
Aug 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…about it later today. Today. Today. We'll give you a location today. Cartels where? Well, Latin America's got a lot of cartels. They've got a…
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so much about for so many years…
…traffickers, networks, and everything else on the planet Earth, allowing foreign drug cartels to carve out a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing…
…we declared an all-out war on the dealers, smugglers, traffickers, and cartels. Within moments of taking office, I deployed the U.S. military to our…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels, which are coming back into our country. And we are—we got…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…they used birthright citizenship— some of the worst people, some of the cartels—to get people into our country, just so you know. And, again…
…looking at birthright citizenship wrong for years." But they've used it. The cartels have used birthright citizenship to get very bad people in. And what…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…couldn't happen. The last administration engineered a massive border invasion, allowing gangs, cartels, and terrorists to infiltrate our communities and rape and murder our citizens…
…and, frankly, people from mental institutions. We've designated six murderous Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organization. We have also designated two bloodthirsty transnational gangs…
…paid nothing. We got Mexico to turn over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country. And we're charging Mexico and Canada and China…
Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…they become citizens, and they pay a lot of money to different cartels and others. It's all about slavery. And if you look at it…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we officially designated Tren de Aragua, MS–13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And thanks to the Supreme Court yesterday—and…
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and she'll persecute [prosecute] human traffickers, gang members, illegal aliens, and criminal cartels to the fullest extent of the law. And between Pam and Alina…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…the toughest gang, they say, in the world—and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. That's a big deal. Nobody wanted to do…
…Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including the depraved kingpin charged with the 1985 murder of DEA…
…smart and very vicious people. You know, some of those businesses, those cartels are run better than any business in America. They say they're run…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…designated this gang, along with MS–13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations. They are now officially in the same category…
…agent were patrolling by the Rio Grande, near an area known as Cartel Island—doesn't sound too nice to me—when heavily armed gunmen started…
…the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture, and exercise total control—they have total control…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we're not playing games, and just this week, I officially designated bloodthirsty cartels and murderous gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, something which Biden didn't want…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…people that—you know, they have no idea the viciousness of these cartels and these people. And they're smarts. I mean, they're very smart, tough…
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…relationship with Mexico. But I think Mexico is largely run by the cartels, and that's a sad thing to say. And if they wanted help…
…Mexico for years now, but now, especially, it's—it's run by the cartels. And they've allowed millions of people to come into our country from…
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…they didn't have what they were supposed to have. Destroying the terrorist cartels is going to be a very big priority for Pam. And that…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Last week, I also signed an order that will designate a—the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. That's a very big designation. And, as we…
Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…from which they came. I signed an order that will designate the cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations." It's a big deal. That's a big deal…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Under the orders I sign today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of…