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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.

“Drug” said in 69 of 184 transcripts, 303 times.

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Remarks on the Navy 250 Celebration at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia

Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times

  1. …anymore. Sorry to tell you that. But it's—we stopped—we're stopping drugs coming into America, if that's okay. We're stopping drugs at a level…
  2. …even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in and drugs pouring in. Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore. So now…
  3. …our country—from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions and insane asylums—drug dealers, murderers—11,788 murderers were allowed to come into our country…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer With Artificial Intelligence and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …of words about our past meeting, where we're going to be lowering drug prices by 50, 100, 200, even 500 percent, even 1,000. We…
  2. …are paying a fraction of what we pay for the same exact drug, same exact pharmaceutical, everything. And I said, "No, that's not right." And…
  3. …of myself because I'm the first President in 28 years that cut drug prices from beginning to end. So they went down—I think it…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 20 times

  1. …for you, because it's going to be a lowering of medical prices—drug prices, like in the history of our country has never happened before…
  2. …the United States. It was a result of the most-favored-nation drug pricing order that we established earlier this year. As you know, the…
  3. …Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription drugs. They paid far more—10 times, 13 times, 15 times more—than…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …let this happen. Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions—drug dealers, murderers. You know, we had 11,488 murderers allowed into our…
  2. …seen the boats going. "We can't find any more boats." They're carrying drugs. Massive—every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they had…
  3. …stacked up with bags of white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs too. And now we have a problem. General Caine said: "Sir, there…

Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City

Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 11 times

  1. …pouring in from all over the world—from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers—all over the world they came. They just poured into our…
  2. …the 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…
  3. …that 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…

Remarks on Children's Health and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 12 times

  1. …the country. The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing some autism symptoms. This gives hope…
  2. …that you put it all into the body, and maybe that's the drug companies. They make more money that way. Maybe it's the doctors, because…
  3. …because there are other things, other—we were talking about another—different drugs, pills that you take that we know are so bad, and they…

Remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founders Dinner in Mount Vernon, Virginia

Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 17 times

  1. …nations, Oz? Next week, okay. Favored nations. We're going to be reducing drug prices down to a level that nobody—not by 20 percent, 30…
  2. …been going on for a long time. That was a deal with drug companies and nations, how to take advantage of the United States. You're…
  3. …we're going to literally be cutting prices by 500 percent, 600 percent. Drugs that sell for $88 in London are selling for $130. You know…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …from Pfizer, where they spent a lot of money, and the other drug companies. They spent a lot of money on finding out the results…
  2. …he allowed into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. And we're getting them out, and we're getting them out fast…
  3. …They're really, really sick people, they're dangerous people, they're killers, they're murderers, drug dealers. And can't have it. You can't have a country like that…

Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Restoring Law and Order in Memphis, Tennessee

Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 4 times

  1. …of boats. Now there are no boats. I wonder why? Meaning, no drugs are coming across. Probably stopping some fishermen too. I mean, to be…
  2. …trip," because I'd say: "Man, if they—maybe they think I have drugs downstairs. I don't want that." I think the fishing business has probably…
  3. …to see it. Now, what does that mean? That means there's no drugs coming by sea, but they do come by land. And you know…

Remarks on Signing the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act and Executive Orders and Announcing the 2026 Group of Twenty (G-20) Nations Summit in Miami, Florida, and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …Yes. It depends on the individual instance. You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela or anybody else or anyplace else, and we'll…
  2. …I say that. I can only say that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela. The prisons of Venezuela have…
  3. …But millions and millions of—of dollars and—billions of dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're…

Remarks on Signing Executive Orders To Reduce Crime and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …getting murderers and jailbirds and people out of this country who are drug dealers at the highest level. So much of the energy of people…
  2. …24 hours' notice. And we're doing a lot to interdict—to stop drugs from coming in too. We have ships out on sea. You know…
  3. …have something coming up—favored nations—where I'm going to be reducing drug prices by 14-, 1,500 percent, where a pill that sells in…

Remarks at White House Reception for Republican Members of Congress

Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times

  1. …was so proud of myself because I worked very hard, and pharmaceuticals, drug prices, went down for the first time in 28 years. Think of…
  2. …I was so proud, I called a news conference to announce that drug prices have gone down for the first time in many years. And…
  3. …nice. And he takes Ozempic, or, as they call it, "the fat drug." And he's a brilliant guy. He's rich, tough, highly neurotic. He's a…

Remarks on Signing the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act and Exchange With Reporters

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …ourselves in this position. Today we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so…
  2. …a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence in prison. We'll be getting the drug dealers, pushers, and peddlers off our street, and we will not rest…
  3. …Thank you very much. My nominee to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sara Carter. Sara. Great reporter too. She was a very…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …they did. They came in from prisons, and they came in from drugs and gangs and drug lords, the worst in the world. They came…
  2. …criminals out. Everybody agrees. And we're finding the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers. We're getting them the hell out of here. But the farmers…

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 2 times

  1. …came into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, from street gangs, drug dealers. It's disgusting. This enormous country-destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide…
  2. …ICE will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels, which are coming back into our country. And we are—we…

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

  1. …when it comes to illegal immigration. We have murderers, killers. We have drug dealers. We have—what they've allowed to come into our country should…
  2. …That's a mental institution on steroids. People from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers, people—oh, jails being emptied out into our country. Venezuela emptied…

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …came from mental institutions. They were the leaders of gangs. They were drug lords, allowed to come into our country. Their countries threw them out…

Remarks at the United States Steel Corporation Mon Valley–Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania

May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …of the Congo. They came from all over South America—prisons, gangs, drug dealers, drug merchants. They came from mental institutions—the mentally insane. They…
  2. …to come in. We've ended the flood of criminals, gang members, murderers, drug dealers, and human traffickers, and we're sending them back to the places…
  3. …you probably saw it last week—you know, we pay the highest drug prices and pharmaceutical prices anywhere in the world by far. Other countries…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients and an Exchange With Reporters

May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 44 times

  1. …the history of New York, highly respected, very tough. Went after the drug dealers at a level that you don't see today anymore, and going…
  2. …Government aspect of it, is, "Why hasn't—why doesn't somebody fight the drug price situation?" Meaning equalization. There's a term. It's called "equalization." Nobody wants…
  3. …knocking the drug companies. I'm really more knocking the countries than the drug companies, because they're forced to do things. But the drug lobby is…

Remarks on the 2027 National Football League Draft and an Exchange With Reporters

May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …And they've allowed millions and millions of people to pour in—murderers, drug dealers—the biggest drug dealers in the world, actually—terrorists come in…
  2. …that, we have—by the way, we've taken out thousands of terrorists, drug lords. What we've done is amazing. And as your—Tom Homan and…

Remarks on Domestic Business Investment

Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …Eli Lilly—a great guy. Every time I talk to him about drug prices, he sweettalks me. He tells me about "the middleman, the middleman…
  2. …down and name them. We're going to be getting tremendous amounts of drug and pharmaceutical companies. Going to be pouring into the country. They're going…
  3. …nice for people wanting to buy homes and things. Prescription—the prescription drug prices just saw the largest monthly decline ever recorded. So, David, I'm…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …are great—has arrested dozens of child rapists along with murderers, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and thieves and, frankly, people from mental institutions. We've designated six…
  2. …lot. Energy prices are down. Mortgage rates actually just went down. Prescription drug prices just saw their largest monthly decline ever recorded. How about that…
  3. …they just took the biggest dive ever in the history of prescription drug prices. Think of that. That's a big thing. I've got to say…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …our borders—think of that—many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords, and the mentally insane. Insane asylums were closed. They used to…
  2. …to be there, because, you know, we don't make our own pharmaceuticals—drugs and other things to get better. They're made in other countries. And…
  3. …charge more than $88. Otherwise, you can't sell your product," and the drug companies listen to them. But we're going to do something that we…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …rushing into our country from prisons and jails and mental institutions, murderers, drug dealers, and some vicious, vicious criminals. Eleven thousand eighty-eight murderers came…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …people. Maybe they didn't even know why. They imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers, and child predators from all over the world to come into…
  2. …prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums, and sent the killers, drug smugglers, and blood-thirsty inmates from the filthiest dungeons of the world…
  3. …gang; 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…