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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.

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Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …new—it's a new thing. "They spit, we hit." How about the cars, where the cars are coming out? They get brandnew cars—Border Patrol…
  2. …have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car. So here's this beautiful, brandnew car. By the time it goes a…
  3. …they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car. It looks like it's a war zone. And I said, "Never let…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …the White House, they'd call Uber for protection. They'd run to the car because they were petrified to be from the entrance of their building…
  2. …car. Now they feel safe. They're in the car, and then the car gets hijacked while they're in the back of the car. This is…

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? 7 times

  1. …elderly woman parked at the movie theater, dragged her out of the car, and body-slammed her into the pavement, where she is still trying…
  2. …here. It's so darn dangerous that you can't get out of your car." If you get out of your car, he says you get robbed…
  3. …year-old Memphis carjacking victim. A man walked up, "Give me your car. You got 5 seconds to get out or you're dead." This is…

Remarks at a Dinner With Republican Members of Congress

Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …are working class things. We get a deduction—if you buy a car, you borrow money, we deduct the interest, Jason, which is so incredible…
  2. …We have factories from all over the world coming in. We have car plants that were stolen from us. We had 40 percent—47 percent…

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 9 times

  1. …little while ago. Okay? Well, and they have the right to sell cars and things in our country. You know, it's—— ——not like a one…
  2. …for their building—for AI. Then you have a lot of the car plants going up. Most of them won't need that kind of electricity…
  3. …energy, I think you're going to be at $2 a gallon with cars very shortly. Two dollars. It was $4, $5 under the Democrats. That's…

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

Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …know that I have friends—they leave their trunk open for their car because they don't want—they know they're going to be vandalized. They…
  2. …the door, they don't have to break the windows and kill the car in order to steal whatever it is in the car that they're…
  3. …into his garage, take whatever they want, and leave. But all the cars—or so many cars—I've been told this by many people—stars…

Remarks Announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …up this—and liked it. And Sly had—he's in an old car that he came in from Brooklyn—or someplace in New York, but…
  2. …Brooklyn. It barely made it to California. He was sleeping in the car. He—I mean, he had nothing. And he wanted control over who…
  3. …on overtime and all sorts of things. You go out, buy a car, you can deduct the interest payment. If you borrow money, you can…

Remarks on Domestic Investment by Apple Incorporated and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …the things. And actually, for people that go out and buy a car—first time it's ever been done. We talk about deductions for companies…
  2. …be able to deduct interest when they borrow money to buy a car if it's made in America—has to be made in America. So…
  3. …when you start seeing some of these incredible plants, because we have car plants opening. They're coming in from Canada, from Mexico, and from all…

Remarks on Signing Executive Orders at the Artificial Intelligence Summit

Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …ruin it. I just terminated all of the, as an example, California car emissions rules, which were a disaster—a disaster. It cost them millions…
  2. …just billions of dollars as an industry, but thousands of dollars per car—the emission rule standard. Because they were making the production of an…
  3. …of enthusiasm for this one industry. I mean, I can talk about cars, where we're doing incredibly well. We have car companies moving in all…

Remarks at White House Reception for Republican Members of Congress

Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …before the election, and it didn't really amount to that much for cars. You know, it didn't last that long, actually, because that's a big…
  2. …it's Europe, I'll say: "That's okay. You're no longer allowed to sell cars in America. You're no longer allowed to have Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, or…

Remarks at an Independence Day Celebration With Military Families and Signing Ceremony for Tax Code Reform and Government Appropriations Legislation

Jul 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …check that out? But all the coal miners we love and the truck drivers. In this act, we have officially made the Trump tax cuts…
  2. …tax credit permanent for 40 million American families. And to increase the car affordability, it makes interest on a new car payment—so this had…
  3. …deduct it. It's never happened before. So run out and buy a car. But I have to tell you, it's only good, Mike, if it's…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …is insane—the electric vehicle mandate, where everybody had to have a car that happened to be all electric in the next few short years…
  2. …it's ridiculous to mandate that everybody's going to be driving an electric car in five years from now. So I ended it. I signed an…

Remarks During a Meeting With Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Francophonie Therese Kayikwamba Wagner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe of Rwanda and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Meets with Leaders of DRC and Rwanda 1 time

  1. …never been anything like this. We have factories moving in. We have car plants moving in. We have—everyone wants to be part of the…

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 5 times

  1. …To do that is very dangerous. It's very, very heavy material. Those cars were most likely the cars of masons, because they were pouring concrete…
  2. …nobody has ever seen. But most importantly, we have factories being built, car plants being built, companies moving to our country like never before. If…
  3. …is a dangerous business. You know, I tell the story of the car companies and different people in different professions. You have race car drivers…

Remarks on the President's Legislative Agenda and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …it's fine. He's from Harmony, Pennsylvania. As well as Dee Sova, a truck driver from Springfield, Missouri, where, by the way, our beautiful planes landed…
  2. …delivering an even bigger win for the autoworkers by making interest on car payments fully tax deductible. You know, that's something only rich people seem…
  3. …But I said—on interest, I said, "Why couldn't we, if a car is made in the United States only"—because otherwise, we don't care…

Remarks on Signing Legislation Regarding Congressional Disapproval of Environmental Protection Agency Rules Relating to Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards in California and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 66 times

  1. …them. The automakers didn't know what to do, because they're really building cars for two countries. When you have 17 States, you're building cars for…
  2. …radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry all over the country— all over the world, actually, because they…
  3. …plan to impose a 100-percent ban on all new gas-powered cars within a very short period of time. Think of this. You couldn't…

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …taking them up to the bridges, and they're dropping them on the cars that are going by. These are animals. But they proudly carry the…
  2. …are throwing firebombs, Molotov cocktails, lighting vehicles ablaze. You saw all the cars that were burning. Mobbing police officers and ICE officers, who are the…
  3. …to—they're going to pay for themselves. And if you get a car and if you borrow money to buy the car, we're going to…

Remarks Following a Briefing on the Atlantic Hurricane and Wildfire Season and Preparedness Efforts

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …going up on bridges, and dropping it into the roof of a car. They were throwing it at our police. They were throwing it at…
  2. …badly. They go up on bridges. They drop it down on the cars as the cars are moving. They're not breaking the curb because they're…
  3. …people. Did you see the guy throwing the rocks at the police cars as they went by and crushing their windows and endangering our police…

Remarks at an "Invest in America" Roundtable Discussion

Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …you know, it's interesting. You watched the same clips as I did. Cars burning all over the place, people rioting. And, by the way, we…
  2. …and the tariffs hadn't even started yet, just about. They were on cars. They were on some countries at a very minor level. And we…

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

May 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …It's going to happen fast. You're going to be very busy watching trucks go back and forth, loaded up with cash— —or its equivalent. And…
  2. …And we're going to make the interest payments, as you know, on cars—we're going to take the car payments, and we're going to make…
  3. …we're going to make interest payments tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America, and that means made with American steel and…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

May 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …have a big deficit with them. They sell millions and millions of cars, as you know— Mercedes and BMW and Volkswagen and others—many others…
  2. …off getting them—getting them elsewhere. But for certain products, we want—cars. We want to make cars. We don't want to have—and I…
  3. …Canada very much, but we don't want to have Canada making our cars. We want to make our cars. Oh, it's a phone call. Do…

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 11 times

  1. …already on, that are our tariffs; and it doesn't include tariffs on cars, steel, aluminum, things such as that; or tariffs that may be imposed…
  2. …the cards. They treated us very unfairly. They sell us 13 million cars. We sell them none. They sell us their agricultural products. We sell…
  3. …if they want to get cute, then they don't have to sell cars into the United States anymore. It's a very big subject. And they…

Remarks With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom Announcing a United States Trade Agreement With the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters

May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …of the things we did here that we'll rarely do is on cars. We took it from 25 to 10 on Rolls-Royce, because Rolls…
  2. …even ask them to do that. You know, it's a very special car, and it's a very limited number too. It's not, you know, one…
  3. …that makes millions of cars. They make a very small number of cars that are super luxury, and that includes Bentley and Jaguar. So we…

Commencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …understand, they were tariffing the hell out of us. We couldn't sell cars in Europe, we couldn't sell cars in China, we couldn't sell cars…
  2. …have the world's tallest buildings, design the fastest airplanes, build the greatest cars, do everything the absolute best—better than any other nation in the…

Remarks on the National Day of Prayer

May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …seniors. And we have full deduction for interest. If you buy a car that's made in America, you get an interest rate deduction. That's going…
  2. …in America, we want you to buy it. We make the best cars anyway. Things are moving along very well. And I just wanted to…

Remarks on Domestic Business Investment

Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …fantastic. Thank you, Ted. That's fantastic. Ted is investing $88 million for car production at its West Virginia factory, which is a beauty. I've seen…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 17 times

  1. …what's happening. They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. You know why? Because of our tax and tariff policy. They're…
  2. …like low interest rates. We like being able to buy a beautiful car and now deduct the interest on the loan. That's never happened before…
  3. …They're trying to say the prices have gone up. Your energy, your car, your gasoline—they have three States, this week, a couple of days…