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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.

“Border” said in 197 of 427 transcripts, 873 times.

Counted forms: border, borders, border's.

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Remarks at the Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation Ceremony

Nov 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Presidential Turkey Pardon 4 times

  1. …tough-on-crime administration. We are tough on crime. You know, our border had zero people coming in for the last 7 months. Right? Zero…
  2. …to be—they had millions and millions of people pour into our border, from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. They poured into…
  3. …Homan, Kristi Noem, the whole group—the job they've done on the border is almost like a miracle. We have—and the people that make…

Remarks at McDonald's Impact Summit 2025

Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 2 times

  1. …born workers. Nobody thought that was possible. And we have the strongest borders in the history of our country. Nobody comes in unless they come…
  2. …thinks it's impossible. A year ago, millions of people were storming our borders. Today, they only come in if they come in legally. And wages…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 10 times

  1. …report that, today, the United States has the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any…
  2. …the Biden policies of soaring prices, crushing energy costs, massive spending, open borders—let the world come into our country from prisons and from mental…
  3. …and corruption. We stand for law and order and justice, also strong borders. Boy, do we have strong borders. They put America last. We put…

Remarks at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEOs Luncheon in Gyeongju, South Korea

Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 4 times

  1. …States is blessed with the—right now the strongest economy, the strongest borders—this all happened over the last 9 months—the strongest military, the…
  2. …about the fact that there were thousands of dead people along the border. And they fought for a long time. And I said: "Wait a…
  3. …starting, and it was vicious. Thousands of people were killed along the border—their two borders. And I said, "Let's call the head." I didn't…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Gyeongju, South Korea

Oct 29, 2025 Other 8 times

  1. …to make a big step with fentanyl. The thing with fentanyl—the border is now so tight, it's much tougher for them. We've been doing…
  2. …We have to stop it. And now we're stopping it at the border to a very much larger extent than ever before. Under Biden, you…
  3. …killed 300,000 people last year—fentanyl, drugs coming through the southern border. And now nobody gets through the southern border. We just had another…

Remarks at a Dinner With Business Leaders in Tokyo, Japan

Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 6 times

  1. …he's doing a great job. He's doing a great job on the border too. You see what's happening. And we had drugs coming in—a…
  2. …but it's really been amazing what's been happening in terms of our border. We have a border that's totally closed. We used to have a…
  3. …have a very corrupt election process. And you need that, you need borders, and you need a fair press. And the press is slightly better…

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 9 times

  1. …of the United States military to stop the invasion on our southern border. Right? It was an invasion. Losing hundreds of thousands of people to…
  2. …in through a legal process, but nobody came in through the southern border. Can you imagine? Even I can't—I—it's hard to believe that…
  3. …drum, but that's what we have to have. If you don't have borders, if you don't have a fair media, if—you know, you need…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Force One En Route to Tokyo, Japan

Oct 27, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …had murders came in through the Biden administration—we have very tight borders now, but we had open borders. Incredibly, we had open borders. What…
  2. …a war—that was thousands of people were already shot at the border. And when you look at what we just did was pretty amazing…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With the Homeland Security Task Force and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 12 times

  1. …Megan, thank you. Thank you very much. And president of the National Border Patrol Council, my friend and a very good speaker, by the way…
  2. …President, not Biden—nearly 100 percent of those who infiltrated our southern border did so because they were personally approved. They admitted they were—they…
  3. …of them given to us by Joe Biden and his ridiculous open-borders policy. They came in from jails from all over the world—not…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times

  1. …they came. Many of them were let in through the Biden open border. Brilliant thing, where they let people in from jails, from prisons and…
  2. …country that was dead, a country that was really in trouble—open borders, everything they did wrong—men in women sports, transgender for everybody. Every…

The President's News Conference

Oct 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 9 times

  1. …cases, they were allowed in by a very foolish, actually stupid, open-border policy. Just anybody could have come in. They emptied out their jails…
  2. …America. They came in through the—well, they came in through the border. They came in because we had an open-border policy. And, as…
  3. …a country. And I've said it from the beginning: fair elections and borders. And we need also fair press, because if you don't have fair…

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. …Charlie was a big person for "Sir, could we close up those borders, please, a little bit? You know, they're really leaking badly." I said…
  2. …people that were allowed in were people that came in legally. The borders are absolutely stone-cold closed, and they reported zero, zero, zero, and…
  3. …with countless young conservatives. He fought for free speech, religious liberty, strong borders, and a very strong and proud America. In everything he did, he…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 12 times

  1. …came. Mostly let out by Biden and his people that had open border—an open-border policy. And you know, Canada, you suffered because of…
  2. …in terms of—— They—Canada suffered greatly by Biden and the open border—the policy of open border. Totally unchecked, totally unvetted. And these people…
  3. …getting a lot of bad people. And we now have a closed border. Yes. You've done well. We have a closed border. And it's a…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …And no country can afford that. No country. And we have the border stopped up. We have it closed. We had nobody for 4 months…
  2. …have a big fight over that. We have a fight over open borders. They still want open borders. We're having a fight over men in…
  3. …right now. I mean, can you imagine we're actually talking about open borders? And we now have a great border, and we have a great…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. We didn't have people coming in from…
  2. …want the credit for 46. I don't want to have their open borders and people coming in from all over the world, including jails and…
  3. …because people aren't believing it. We need an honest press. We need borders. We need borders, we need an honest press, we need fair elections…

Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City

Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 15 times

  1. …country even close. America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any…
  2. …The numbers far surpass my record-setting first term. On our southern border, we have successfully repelled a colossal invasion. And for the last 4…
  3. …they came. They just poured into our country with the ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. Our message is very simple: If you…

Remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founders Dinner in Mount Vernon, Virginia

Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …Governor. "Do you know, sir, you won every single area on the border of Texas? All Hispanic. Eighty-eight percent, 92 percent. All these towns…
  2. …that. But we stopped the flood of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders, and for 4 months in a row, the numbers of illegals admitted…
  3. …a year, 2 years, there was millions of people coming across our border from mental institutions, from prisons—drug dealers, gangs—the toughest gangs anywhere…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …they want to shut down the country. They want to have open borders. They want to stop the fighting of crime, where we've been very…
  2. …think these people are crazy. You know, again, anybody who wants open borders and don't want to fight—they don't want to fight crime. They…
  3. …nobody is coming in because we've succeeded in closing—we've closed the border very successfully. I think you will agree. We had nobody come in…