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Remarks to United States Servicemembers With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in Yokosuko, Japan

Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 3 times

  1. …was able to find and help rescue all three divers in the water below, saving his fellow sailors. And James is with us today as…
  2. …hit by lightning and it's fine, you take a little glass of water and you drop it on magnets, I don't know what's going to…
  3. …brave. They've crossed icy channels, leapt from burning wreckage, stormed into frigid waters, soared into deadly skies, and laid down their lives to ensure the…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 5 times

  1. …disaster of building a basement in the Potomac River and keeping the water out—very hard to do as you're pouring your concrete, which has…
  2. …lot of drugs. We had a lot of drugs coming in by water. That stopped. In fact, nobody wants to go fishing anymore. Nobody— . Nobody…
  3. …of their boat, because they are very nervous about going on the water. It's been amazing. So now we were having—literally, it was like…

Remarks on Presenting Posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Turning Point U.S.A. Founder and Executive Director Charles J. Kirk

Oct 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Medal of Freedom Ceremony for Charlie Kirk 4 times

  1. …already lost 25,000 houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. And…
  2. …do it. And we had 25,000 homes where they had no water in their sprinklers. They had no water in the fire hydrants. It…
  3. …do. We had to break in. We broke in and had the water come down. They actually—they said, for the environment, great. They lost…

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

Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 8 times

  1. …sent the mangled pride of empires sinking into oblivion. You've surged the waters thick and danger, blood, brine, and through it all, the United States…
  2. …mine. I have to be honest with you. Sailing on those beautiful waters all the time. You're so lucky. Because the American sailor never quits…
  3. …our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that? And you know, there are no boats in the…

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

Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …have never allowed to have taken place. They should have had the water coming down from the Pacific Northwest, but they didn't do that. But…
  2. …called the Potomac River. The beautiful Potomac River. That means lots of water, and the water is right under the building, and they decide to…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 20 times

  1. …face off at the legendary Rose Bowl. Sailors will race through the waters near the Port of Los Angeles. And the opening ceremony will take…
  2. …I've been fighting with them for a long time about allowing the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest, essentially. And we actually opened…
  3. …opposition from the Governor, and we opened it up anyway. And the water is coming down. They—we want it opened further. They have a…

Remarks at a Dinner With Republican Senators

Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …the world, and it has one little problem. It doesn't allow much water going into the Nile River. So you can imagine, Egypt is not…
  2. …massive dam, and I'm saying, "Is that going to be blocking the water to the Nile?" And anyway, that should have never sort of happened…

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

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …a lot of Coast Guard ships that go very speedily along the water, and they're very lethal. They're very powerful, and that's what we need…
  2. …comes in as we block up the border, they start using the water. That's a good—I could use that. They block up the border…
  3. …start using the water. And that's what happens. They start using the water. Who would think? They even actually developed small submarines. You saw that…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …their houses were burned down to the ground because they didn't give water that they had plenty of. I'm pleased to report that the "One…

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 14 times

  1. …be here. It's not going to be much different. You'll have the water moccasins. You'll have the alligators. You may not have people, but you're…
  2. …they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet—the water doesn't come out. They have a restrictor. You can't—in areas where…
  3. …the shower doesn't—you think it's not working. It is working. The water is dripping out. And that's no good for me. I like this…

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 8 times

  1. …a fire. They should have lost none. You know, I sent the water down. I had to break into their water supply, because they just…
  2. …it. They're crazy. There's something wrong with them. They have plenty of water. They don't have droughts or anything. They have plenty—we let it…
  3. …houses, none of which would have burned down if you had the water. They didn't have water. They didn't have water for the fire pumps…

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 9 times

  1. …just like his damn houses burned down because he didn't have the water that he should have had. He had so much water—they have…
  2. …water. We had to send in the military to free up the water, and we did that right after the fires. We told them to…
  3. …have never had, because they should have listened to me and the water. Eventually, we broke in and we had the water come down from…

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

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …tools, they had everything you needed. I mean, they were throwing iced water in bottles—in glass bottles at officers and at soldiers. These are…
  2. …left over, because the other fire was started because they wouldn't allow water into L.A. They wouldn't allow water into California because they had it…
  3. …did it in the second. Now we have billions of gallons of water flowing down, but Newsom should have done this. He's an incompetent man…

Remarks at a Dinner for the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

May 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …pour a little section, then another little section. And when they put water, it all leaked—surprisingly, you know. So it was fun, but we…
  2. …Los Angeles. Los Angeles is not— —looking too good with what—the water. We just sent so much water down their way. They didn't want…
  3. …take it because it was bad for the environment. I said, "No, water is good for the environment." If they would have had it when…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …defend it here—we have to defend it not only in the water, but we have to defend it in the air. The planes were…
  2. …things. Your sink—you ever try buying a new sink and no water comes out? Your showerheads, your toilets—the whole thing, it's a disaster…
  3. …an environmental problem. You have areas they can't get rid of their water, and yet, they have—they put restrictors on them. You used to…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …sign things and it's nice and everything is good. You'll get more water in the showerhead and things like that. But this is such an…
  2. …I ask—it's so interesting. So you take these massive areas of water, and other countries are allowed to fish in them, right? Yes. So…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …appliances? Sinks and toilets. He didn't want to say it. There's no water. You don't get water. It's ridiculous. They don't. Nobody wants— . You buy…
  2. …shower or wash your hands, whatever you do—including dishwashers, where no water comes out—but you wash your hands, and, in my case, I…
  3. …end up washing your hands five times longer, so it's the same water. And we're going to open it up so that people can live…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …poor job. As you probably heard, I released billions of gallons of water going in from upstate California, from the most northern parts of California…
  2. …it would have been like if you had fire hydrants that had water in them, if you had sprinkler systems in houses. A lot of…
  3. …they had beautiful sprinkler systems, there was no water. They had no water to put out the fires. Water is very good for putting out…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …right? It was an Obama sycophant. We blew him out of the water, right, Cindy Hyde? So, thank you. And Senator Ashley Moody, congratulations. Where…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …the way they're going. What a shame. And by the way, the water is flowing in California. I hope you people have seen it. But…
  2. …can't believe we had to do that. But we opened up the water in California. The water was flowing into a place called the Pacific…
  3. …the Pacific Ocean, is only a drop, but for us, it's more water than we can use in California. So I'll get you some photographs…

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

Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …get rid of those restrictions. You have many places where they have water—they have so much water, they don't know what to do with…
  2. …the sink and water barely comes out. They turn—take a shower, water barely comes out, and it's an unnecessary restriction. And basically, I think…
  3. …hands or presses the button for a dishwasher and there's barely enough water to—I mean, there's no water. And you know what they do…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …destroyed, the—the whole state, this Hurricane Helene. It was a heavy-water hurricane, the water like nobody's ever seen. Lakes were built in areas…
  2. …You know, I opened the floodgates a few days ago, let the water come down because the environmentalists didn't want water. They still don't want…
  3. …you crazy?" And I opened—you—I'm sure you've seen it. The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, and—but…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …knowledge that their journey that night did not end in the icy waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a very loving…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …ridiculous war. Okay. I sent him to California to turn on the water. We turned it on. It was not easy, because we had to…
  2. …causing a lot of problems. And we have billions of gallons of water. It was on 3 days ago. You probably saw. It should have…
  3. …is giving Los Angeles and the entire State of California virtually unlimited water, which they could have done 5 years ago, which I told them…

Remarks on the Collision of a United States Army Helicopter and an American Airlines Aircraft Near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …Airport. Both aircraft crashed instantly and were immediately submerged into the icy waters of the Potomac. Real tragedy. The massive search and rescue mission was…
  2. …answers. That icy, icy Potomac—that was a cold, cold night, cold water. We're all overcome with the grief for many who have so tragically…
  3. …Together, we take solace that their journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potamic but in the warm embrace of a loving god…

Remarks in a Briefing on Wildfire Recovery Efforts in Los Angeles, California

Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 35 times

  1. …Carolina, and we had just a similar type of disaster. It was water instead of fire, but, boy, that water did damage like I've never…
  2. …the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible to let hundreds of millions…
  3. …that. They didn't mind hearing that. But we have a lot of water that is available, and I hope you can work that out among…

Remarks During a Tour of Hurricane Helene Damage and an Exchange With Reporters in Swannanoa, North Carolina

Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …lot of that could have been prevented, I think, if they had water, which they had plenty of, but they didn't use it. But I'm…
  2. …North Carolina in this horrible crisis. For 2 months, Asheville lacked running water. And even today, some North Carolinians can't take a hot-water shower…
  3. …which is ridiculous. We'll marshal all available resources that bring back potable water and make your water and infrastructure dramatically more reliable very quickly. And…

Remarks During a Briefing on Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts and an Exchange With Reporters in Fletcher, North Carolina

Jan 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …see what was going on with California, why they aren't releasing the water. Millions and millions of gallons of water, they're sending it out to…
  2. …somebody's going to explain that one. In the meantime, they have no water in Los Angeles, where they had the problems. But—so we're going…
  3. …far worse than it was even billed. I have never seen such water damage. It was largely water damage—wind damage, but water damage as…