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Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 4 times
…solely on trade and tariffs. India, Pakistan were going at it—two nuclear powers, and serious nuclear—seven planes shot down. They were ready to…
…to do with the other?" I said: "It has a lot. You're nuclear powers, and if you do it, we're not doing a trade deal…
…do it." We stopped a war. We stopped a potential disaster—a nuclear disaster because of trade. And it's been really amazing. But the tariffs…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times
…I'm not going to be a party to it." You have two nuclear nations, by the way. "No, no, no, you can't do that." I…
…they stopped. They stopped, just like that. This could have been a nuclear war. Probably would have been. In fact, the Prime Minister of Pakistan…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 11 times
…They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this earth. And with Operation…
…love being on television." So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. And that's been confirmed…
…making the deal that we have now—right?—if Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from having. They would…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 1 time
…And they were both great. They stopped fighting, and they were two nuclear powers. So, you know, they're all big. They're—every one of them…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…were shot down. They were ready to go at it—and they're nuclear powers. And I don't want to say exactly what I said, but…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times
…spectacular military feats the world has ever seen: the obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty good…
…say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon within a month. And now they can start the operation all…
…that hit." For 22 years they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. He said, "But it was only when you came…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…them all. Although, I don't know, Pakistan-India was very big, both nuclear powers. I settled that. But yesterday is—could be the settlement in…
…and more powerful than it has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear , as you probably know, but we'll upgrade that also and just hope…
…a little bit threatened by Russia recently, and I sent a submarine—nuclear submarine. The most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 8 times
…a pledge of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran's nuclear program. The regime's answer was to continue their constant threats to their…
…bombers dropped the 14 30,000-pound-each bombs on Iran's key nuclear facility, totally obliterating everything. No other country on Earth could have done…
…did something that, for 22 years, people wanted to do. With Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity demolished, I immediately brokered an end to the 12-day…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…to do any trade if you're going to fight." And they have nuclear weapons. They stopped. And then I was told that, "If you can…
…it done one way or the other. But I also obliterated Iran's nuclear hopes by totally annihilating their enriched uranium. And I'll tell you what…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…settled seven. And that doesn't include the destruction of a vast potential nuclear disaster in Iran, which we wiped out—totally, as I say, obliterated…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…you're right. But it's pretty amazing. Quantum computing, fusion, 6G, and civil nuclear energy, and align our nations through the approach of centered deregulation and…
…long while they've been talking about this deal—the deployment of modular nuclear reactors across the U.K.—all across the U.K. They've been—it's been…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…But we got seven of them done. We ended up stopping the nuclear —potential nuclear disaster in Iran with, I think, one of the greatest…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…problem. It was a perfect attack, and it knocked out any possible nuclear capability for Iran, which nobody wanted to see, and we weren't going…
…Bagram, because Bagram is 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We were going to have that all to ourselves—a big…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…so incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out a potential nuclear power for a long time to come. I think, within a month…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…not including in there the—what we did with Iran, stopping their nuclear play. They would have had—within a month or two, they would…
…Pakistan, that was the next level. That was going to be a nuclear war. They already shot down seven jets. That was raging. And I…
…day for other things, because, you know, we're also talking about missiles, nuclear —we're talking about a lot of different things. We're talking about limiting…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…got them solved. And we solved one that could have been a nuclear war with India and Pakistan. That was getting ready to be a…
Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…there's a revolution going on in New Jersey. They closed up a nuclear power plant, and they're raising electricity rates by 21, 22, and 28…
…Six or seven planes came down. They were ready to go maybe nuclear , and we solved that. I thought this would be maybe an easier…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…last s6 months. And on top of that, we wiped out the nuclear capability of Iran. Obliterated it. It's turned out to be a correct…
Aug 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…prior to what would've been a tremendous conflict, as you know—a nuclear conflict, probably. Also, the Congo and Rwanda. No, that was one where…
…And numerous others. In addition, as you know, we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. And to use a term that people tried to…
…trying to blow up themselves and maybe the world." You know, they're nuclear nations. That was a big one. Getting that one settled, I think…
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…five wars. Plus, add to that Iran, where we wiped out their nuclear capacity for weapons. They would have had a weapon within 2 months…
…It was amazing. And that was a big threat. That was a nuclear threat. And here's the new one that we just ordered, a large…
…stopped wars in the Middle East by stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon. And they are—they're—you know, they can say they're going…
Aug 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…frankly. And that doesn't even include Iran with, you know, obliterating their nuclear hall, because they would have had nuclear weapons within 2 months. But…
Jul 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…ahead. Well, Iran has been acting very badly. They were decimated. Their nuclear capability, that potential, which could have been—could have happened within three…
Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…those incredible B–2s flew into Iran and took out an entire nuclear potential deadly force. But I want to thank some of the incredible…
…them done. I said: "Lee, you have one week—one week for nuclear , and you have a couple of days for oil and gas—okay…
…also signed an Executive order to rapidly begin construction of safe, reliable nuclear reactors. That's a big thing now. And many of you will—many…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…the way, India-Pakistan was probably going to end up in a nuclear war if they kept—you know, they had—they shot down five…
…not going to be good." But they have both—they're both powerful nuclear nations, and that would have happened, and who knows where that would…
…stopped it. Iran—you saw, we took out their entire capability of nuclear . Kosovo and Serbia—we stopped that. And a couple of others that…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…was looking like it was going to go—these are two serious nuclear countries, and they were hitting each other. You know, it seems like…
…looked at what we did in Iran, where we knocked out their nuclear capability—totally knocked out that—it's going to be gone for a…
…trade deal if you're going to be throwing around weapons, and maybe nuclear weapons." Both very powerful nuclear states. We did the Congo. This was…
Jul 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…a week. Would you say? Now, if you go—if you go nuclear , I promised him I'd give him 2 weeks. Okay? Nuclear, we'll give…
…the longest serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear , chemical, and math. That's a smart man. Kaczynski was one of his…
…to own your own electric plants, and they'll be powered by maybe nuclear , maybe gas, maybe coal. You know, we brought coal back in. They…
Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…end of that. But the big thing was the attack on their nuclear facilities. What those people did—and you know, they're going to be…
…criminals. A lot of them are on their way out, however. Iran's nuclear enrichment has been obliterated. Remember when CNN said, "It wasn't obliterated"? "It…
…big—for a different reason. I mean, they have little things called nuclear weapons. You would have had, pretty soon, a nuclear war. We stopped…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Meets with Leaders of DRC and Rwanda 8 times
…it—and it was going to get very bad. And they are nuclear nations—very powerful nuclear nations. In the months and years ahead, my…
…was exactly a 12- day war, and we ended up with no nuclear weapons. That's what we wanted. And they were just absolutely blown to…
…very happy about India and Pakistan, because they have—they actually have nuclear weapons. You know, when you talk about Iran, they were trying to…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…to meet. As you know, their sites were obliterated—their very evil nuclear sites. They were—now has been proven. We had some fake news…
…tell—but I don't believe that they're going to go back into nuclear anytime soon. They spent over a trillion dollars on nuclear, and they…
…top, at the hatch, as you know—the hatch going into the nuclear site. They wanted to reinforce it, and they had some masons there…
Jun 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…it to happen again. And Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon, by the way. I think it's the last thing on their…
…not going to have enrichment, and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon—— ——and they know that. They're going to get on to being…
…oil. They're going to do well. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. The last thing on Iran's mind right now is nuclear weapons…
Jun 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those…
…built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the…
…the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of…
Jun 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…there were. And that was somewhat prenuclear. You know, it was the nuclear age, but nothing like it is today. And it looked like I'm…
…matter of months—they were going to be able to have a nuclear weapon. We can't let that happen. I was very much opposed to…
…Hey, I want to have a certain amount where I can go nuclear a little bit, because we need it for electricity, we need it…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times
…not to keep going with that war. That could have been a nuclear war. Those are two nuclear powers—big ones. Big, big nuclear powers…
…been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I've been saying it for a long time, and I think…
…know, it's very—I say it very simply: Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Too much devastation. And they'd use it. You know, I believe…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…think I'm going to answer that question. "Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would…
…more." Then we go blow up all the—you know, all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there. No, they had bad intentions…
…you know, zealots, really—but to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles, but much more than that—could…
Jun 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…it's always better to talk in person. I want to see no nuclear weapon in Iran, and we're well on our way to making sure…
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times
…get nervous when I talk to him. He's doing a great job. Nuclear , I say, "Okay, you can take 2 weeks for that approval." It…
…take 20 years, then they wouldn't approve it. Now I say: "Lee, nuclear , I'll give you 2 weeks for an approval. A coal- fired plant…
…plant that produces electricity. And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear ." They're—we don't want to produce it through wind, because we don't…
May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…have a very big announcement today and it has to do with nuclear energy and other things. And this is all nuclear. It's a hot…
…impressed. Go ahead. So you think it's got a great future, the nuclear ? Are we doing something about the regulatory in here? Because that's going…
…in many of those plants? Will a lot of them be using nuclear , or some are using oil and gas? Some are using different things…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. But with that said…
…never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack. The choice is theirs to make. We really want them to…
…to be a wonderful, safe, great country, but they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an offer that will not last forever. The time…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and Pakistan, ending a dangerous conflict of two nations with lots of nuclear weapons. And they were going at it hot and heavy, and it…
…We're going to be, soon, negotiating with Pakistan. And we stopped a nuclear conflict. I think it would have—it could have been a bad…
…happening there too, by the way. I think—they can't have a nuclear weapon, but I think that they are talking intelligently. We're in the…
May 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…see a peace deal, a strong peace deal. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. But I would say that this is the single most important…
…to get in the way of that, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. And if they choose to go a different route, it's going…
…do, but we have no choice. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. Do you understand…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…Force base, which is 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapon—that's what they do. They make their nuclear missiles in—1…
…anywhere in the world, 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles. It would have been great to have. Well, we were keeping…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…No impact whatsoever. I'm for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be…
…it's like really very good. But with Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. And if they have a nuclear weapon, you'll all be very…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…Not you. I'll be telling China. Yes. Well, they can't have a nuclear weapon. Oh, if necessary, absolutely. Yes. Yes, I do. You're talking about…
…have much time—— ——because we're not going to let them have a nuclear weapon. We can't let them have a nuclear weapon. And we're going…
…be great. The only thing they don't—they can't have is a nuclear weapon. They understand that. You know, the people are so incredible in…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…for Afghanistan—because it's 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. Wouldn't it be nice to have it? You know who occupies…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and doing a great job. And I said, "If we have a nuclear power plant, Lee, can you get it approved in less than a…
…gone, the environment. No, what they have to worry about is the nuclear —nuclear heat. They don't have to worry about environmental heat. They have…
…They say this is going to—these guys can handle that. The nuclear we have a bigger problem with, right? So, we're going to make…
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…communication. Yes. I think that's very important. You know, he's a big nuclear nation, and he's a very smart guy. I got to know him…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…base, which is one hour away from China, where they make their nuclear weapons. Would have been nice to have it. But now, you know…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…this guy, Trump. This guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear weapons that we have." "He will use the nuclear—he has no…
…they were 1 hour away from where China has and builds its nuclear missiles and weapons. And they gave that up. In the dark of…
…and that would have been a war like no other because of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons that—hey, people, you don't even…
Mar 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…one of the most important—he's going to get those approvals. A nuclear power plant will take less than 2 weeks to get approved. Right…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…final moments. We're at final moments. You can't let them have a nuclear weapon. I would—I think that I would have had a deal…