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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.

“Sanction” said in 15 of 77 transcripts, 44 times.

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Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 3 times

  1. …big day in terms of what we're doing. Look, these are tremendous sanctions. These are very big. Those are against their two big oil companies…
  2. …will. I think that they'll certainly have an impact there. They're massive sanctions. It's sanctions in oil, the two biggest oil companies—among the biggest…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 25, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …it's true. He's got tremendous influence in the region. Yes, please. Against—sanctions against Turkey? Could be very soon. If we have a good—— If…
  2. …the leader of Syria, the new leader—as you know, I took sanctions off in order to let them breathe, because the sanctions were very…
  3. …It's very interesting. And Qatar. They said, "If you could, take the sanctions." We had very strong sanctions. I don't—they couldn't have lived with…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 2 times

  1. …same time. But I want to have it end. We have economic sanctions. I'm talking about economic, because we're not going to get into a…
  2. …are dying every single week. If I can save that by doing sanctions or by just being me or by using a very strong tariff…

Remarks Prior to a Working Dinner With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …area of the Middle East, including Bibi, we will—we took the sanctions off Syria. And I met the new leader. I was very impressed…
  2. …the world." But I was very impressed by him. We took the sanctions off because we want to give them a chance. They would never…
  3. …we have very—we—they call them "biting"—they are very biting sanctions. And I would love to be able to, at the right time…

Remarks in a Roundtable Meeting With Business Leaders and an Exchange With Reporters in Doha, Qatar

May 15, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …fight. And the other, of course, is Syria. We took out the sanctions. And that's been—I didn't even realize it's been many, many years…
  2. …to give them a chance. They really have no chance with the sanctions. They were very biting. They were top of the line. Nobody could…
  3. …we're going to give him a fighting chance by taking off the sanctions. So we've actually been praised for that. The Crown Prince of Saudi…

Remarks at a Gulf Cooperation Council Leaders Meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

May 14, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …urging all nations to join us in fully and totally enforcing the sanctions that I just placed on Iran, and we also placed secondary sanctions…
  2. …Muhammad and President Erdoğan of Turkey, I'm also ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start. It gives them a…
  3. …to do so. So we've—we will be dropping all of the sanctions on Syria, which I think really is going to be a good…