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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 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? 5 times

  1. …person was killed. Now you're not seeing it all. It's like the border. Millions of people—a year ago, millions of people poured into our…
  2. …months, there have been zero, as reported by, largely, Democrats, actually. The border is secure. The country is secure. We've got the hottest country anywhere…
  3. …doing, where they're throwing bricks at cars of the—of ICE and Border Patrol. And they come in a beautiful new car. They're so proud…

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 4 times

  1. …Okay? What's that all about? Men playing in women's sports. Wants open borders. Again, wants—they want, actually—after what we've gone through, with millions…
  2. …they poured in. Now we have none coming in. We have—the border has been sealed for a long time—actually, almost since I got…
  3. …We need legislation"? I didn't have any legislation. I said, "Close the borders," and now the borders—for the last 4 months, not one person…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …a great job. Kristi. Well, great job. And great job on the border. We had millions and millions of people coming in. To think, 3…
  2. …sense. I think I got elected on talking about common sense. The border, we have to have a wall. We have—we don't want transgender…
  3. …It's stronger—of course, it's—this is the cause of it: open borders. Open borders gave us a lot of this crime. So, you know…

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

Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …Okay? He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things—he was never for open borders. I've…
  2. …was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country…
  3. …ships out on sea. You know, we have nobody coming through our border anymore. Nobody. How—doesn't that feel good, to know that you don't…

Remarks Announcing the 2026 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Draw Location and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …now we have total safety. We have total security. And for the border, in 3 months, zero people. These are done by liberal people that…
  2. …hundreds of miles of wall. I built the same wall that the Border Patrol asked me to build. It wasn't my first choice. I wanted…
  3. …you wouldn't have been able to see through it. So I had Border Patrol in, and they tested everything else. And we gave them steel…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 18, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …just saying that he was a horrible President. Whether it was the borders or this, he was just a horrible, corrupt President. You want to…
  2. …with men in women's sports and with transgender for everybody and open borders and all of the horrible things—and now the new thing is…
  3. …country. I said for a long time at rallies everywhere—you need borders and you need free and fair elections—those two things. Otherwise, you…

Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …in DC. They feel so safe already. And you know, at the border, we had—Frank, we had zero people come in. And this is…
  2. …I need"—I had no legislation. I just said, "We're closing the borders." And the whole world understood it, because they respect your country again…
  3. …does what we tell them to do. Because we had the two borders. We had the northern border, southern border. And they were both horrible…

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

Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …afraid anymore. And we'll—this will get—this will be like the border. We started off with millions and millions of people coming in from…
  2. …going to have this in good shape. And don't forget, in the border, everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back…
  3. …I never went to Congress for anything. I just said, "Close the border," and they closed the border. And that was the end of it…

The President's News Conference

Aug 11, 2025 Press conference 8 times

  1. …put it in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our Nation's Capital from crime…
  2. …not going to take it. Just like we did on our southern border—nobody comes to our southern border anymore. Three months in a row…
  3. …the right people here, that I can tell you. Look at the border. Biden said there's nothing you can do. Kamala was the border czar…

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 9 times

  1. …That was one of the many issues that I talked about—open borders, the economy, taxes, all of the things—but that was certainly one…
  2. …and eighty-eight murderers were allowed into our country with Biden's open-border policy, with our border czar, who never spoke to the Border Patrol…
  3. …by the fact that they say it. We're very tough on the border, and people can come into our country, but they have to come…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Upon Arrival in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Aug 3, 2025 Other 2 times

  1. …just stopped, we have thousands of people being dead already at the border, between Thailand and Cambodia. Thousands of people. And I've seen some bad…
  2. …we'll see what happens. But Steve is focused right now on the border, in terms of—we're talking about with Gaza, getting people fed. And…

Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …I won because of immigration. I think I won because of the border. I had a bad border, where millions of people were coming into…
  2. …our country illegally. Zero. So we went from a bad, incompetently run border to the most competently run border that anybody has ever seen. I…
  3. …anything about her. She was a horrible Vice President. She was our border czar, but she never went to the border. She never once called…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …They're sending—they continue to send people that we rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country—Venezuela. They've been very…
  2. …just getting a little off subject, but we have now the safest border we've ever had. And I think, in many respects, we probably have…
  3. …has a tremendous problem, and we do too. But we've sealed our borders up. We have nobody coming in, and we have hundreds of thousands…

Remarks at White House Reception for Republican Members of Congress

Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …as you know, in June, we had zero people come through the border, right? Zero people come through the border. So we're doing a real…
  2. …American history, the largest spending cut in American history, and the largest border security investment in American history. And we got no tax on tips…

Remarks at a Dinner With Republican Senators

Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …in American history, the most deregulation in American history, and the largest border security investment in American history and the biggest success on the border…

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

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …far. They did nothing. For four long years, Joe Biden surrendered our borders to the most evil and vicious traffickers, networks, and everything else on…
  2. …a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing nothing. This open-borders nightmare flooded our country with fentanyl and with people that shouldn't be…
  3. …Within moments of taking office, I deployed the U.S. military to our border and unleashed the patriots of ICE and Border Patrol to defend our…

Remarks at the White House Summit of Faith and Business Leaders

Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …bad ones, but he's the worst ever. What he did at our border can never be forgotten. Twenty-five million people allowed to pour into…
  2. …did you know that? They said we had nobody, zero crossed our border. That's the first time that ever happened. Zero. I—did you hear…
  3. …we can never, ever forget it, from the rigged elections to the border to the transgender from—for everybody, from men playing in women's sport…

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

Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …job they did for this country. And I just hope, between the border and this and so many other—inflation—what a horrible administration. The…
  2. …I noticed—after I was out, I noticed soldiers forming at the border. And then I heard horrible, stupid things being said from the other…
  3. …if—it's called the freewheeling autopen. Like, Biden was never for open borders. Biden was never for transgender for everyone. So I don't think he…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on Flooding Damage and Recovery Efforts With First Responders and Local Officials and an Exchange With Reporters in Kerrville, Texas

Jul 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …is really incredible and in so many different ways, including with the border and every different way. Admired by everybody. Secretaries Kristi Noem, Brooke Rollins…
  2. …or enabled more than 1,500 rescues. Amazing—1,500. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard have deployed numerous search- and-rescue…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …with all of the good things in there: economic development, money—tremendous border money. Now you're loaded up on the border, and I don't think…
  2. …by allowing people to come in here, just totally unchecked, unvetted, open borders—open borders. The whole world was dumped into our country, from prisons…
  3. …really knows why. I mean, why would you want to have open borders and criminals pouring into our country? Why would you want to have…

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 7 times

  1. …you have the biggest tax cut, the biggest spending cut, the largest border security investment in American history. We want to have strong borders. And…
  2. …thing is, we want to have great elections too. You need strong borders and elections. And my people have promised me that we're going to…
  3. …are going to be fair. You need two things: You need strong borders, and you need fair elections. Now, we're going to make sure on…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …Medicaid and food stamps—and allows us to hire 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 10,000 new ICE agents—and they are great…
  2. …happened. Very simply, the "One Big Beautiful Bill" would deliver the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest military on Earth…
  3. …I think I heard? But we've achieved the lowest level of illegal border crossings in U.S. history. Zero illegals. Think of it. We had zero…

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 12 times

  1. …Thank you, Joe. Joe is great. With the help of those incredible Border Patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily border crossings…
  2. …why the "One Big Beautiful Bill" includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents. And I've gotten to…
  3. …the Border Patrol and ICE very well, unlike Kamala. She was the border czar, but she never saw the border. She never made one phone…

Remarks With Governor Ronald D. DeSantis of Florida Upon Arrival at the Migrant Detention Facility and an Exchange With Reporters in Ochopee, Florida

Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …be. This is a very important thing. We're setting records at the border. You know, we had no people come through last month. Zero. No…
  2. …problem with this. There was never anything like this. We had great borders. It was bad when I came in. Within 3 months, I fixed…
  3. …come in, the difference is this was 20 times worse. Their open-border policy did so much damage to our country, and we're fixing it…

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 6 times

  1. …everybody else, what they're doing at DOJ and all over—FBI, ICE, Border Patrol—these are incredible people. They're trying to keep our country safe…
  2. …approving it. But think of what they're not approving. They're not approving border security. We've done a great job at the border, but we have…
  3. …We have no money for that. We have no money for the border. We have no money for so many things. But if the Democrats…

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

Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 24 times

  1. …saying that, virtually everybody—the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to secure our borders, turbocharge our economy, and bring back the American dream. That's what's happening…
  2. …a record tax cut, a record spending cut, a record investment in border security. We've done so well on the border. You know, last month…
  3. …a—but, you know, people forget about that. They don't care. The border has been fixed. I wanted to talk about the border 2 days…

Remarks at a Greeting With the Juventus Football Club and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …biggest scandals. He wasn't making a decision. He was never for open borders, where people came in from all over the world—from prisons and…
  2. …mentally insane. He was never for that. He was never for open borders, and he was never for—if you think, he was never for…
  3. …a really good question. No, we had record-good numbers on the border, and people are coming in, but they have to come in legally…

Remarks on the Installation of New White House Flagpoles and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …into the country. You know, if you come in through the southern border, you have no problem. You can be a criminal, you can be…
  2. …sign, because say what you want about Biden, he wasn't for open borders. He wasn't for transgender for everybody. He wasn't for men playing in…
  3. …to ask me that. Zero, yes. Because we really have a tight border. Now, we have let a lot of people in, but they came…

Remarks at the Congressional Picnic

Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …a period of 4 months. So we've reduced the number of illegal border crossers. And you know that because you look at the numbers. And…

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 2 times

  1. …previous administration. I could go point after point, everything they did: open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. "Everybody, let's go transgender…
  2. …because most of the bill is common sense. It's tax cuts. It's border wall funding. It's military funding properly spent. It's all things that are…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Jun 10, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …men playing in women's sports. I think that's a ridiculous thing. Open borders—you take a look at open borders. Open borders is what caused…
  2. …guess, but many of them—came through the Joe Biden, stupid, open borders. Really sad to watch. It's very sad to watch this being our…

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …stupid people or radical-left people or sick people. But regardless, open-border policy, the dumbest policy yet—I would say, even dumber than men…
  2. …out. Their countries would bus them or drive them right to our border and say: "Go in there. You ever come back, we're going to…
  3. …was? He wasn't a radical-left lunatic. He never dreamt about open borders. He never said that when he was of sound mind, which actually…

Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion With the Fraternal Order of Police

Jun 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …appropriate. Upon taking office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and we reduced the number of illegal border crossers released into the…
  2. …plus. They're all coming in. It also includes the largest investment in border security in our Nation's history, equipping law enforcement with the tools to…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …didn't know many of the things. Look, he was never for open borders. He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men…
  2. …of the things I ran on was that. I ran on the border. We have the best border in the history of our country: 99…
  3. …job. But nobody mentions that anymore. Remember, a few months ago, the border was a total disaster. People were coming in by the hundreds of…

Remarks at the White House Summer Soirée

Jun 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …things. In a matter of weeks, we slashed the number of illegal border crossings released into the United States down to practically nothing. Three people…