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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.

“Penalty” said in 18 of 222 transcripts, 42 times.

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Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …Let's talk about the next subject, can we? Okay. Everybody understand? Death penalty in Washington. You kill somebody or if you kill a police officer…
  2. …And that's the way it should be. Okay. This is the death penalty for somebody that kills people in Washington, DC. I think it's capital…
  3. …not going to happen. And if it does happen, it's the death penalty for the person that did it. And this goes into effect—— ——right…

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

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …tariff on China because of the fentanyl. And I call it a penalty. It's a penalty because China delivers much of the fentanyl. Some people…
  2. …is going to end up going from that to giving the death penalty to the people that create this fentanyl and send it into our…
  3. …in, and they didn't know anything about a deal for the death penalty. The death penalty is going to be imposed on people from China…

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 3 times

  1. …I'd rather not say. I would just say that there are big penalties if they violate, and they're not going to—I don't think they…
  2. …to be us. And if they're going to have to pay a penalty or a fine, let it be to us. So they've done this…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …with as fast a trial as we could have, gets the death penalty. And last month, I fired all the radical left pro-crime U.S…
  2. …get it down to close to 100 percent, is with the death penalty. But I think maybe America is not ready for that. China has…
  3. …death penalty. Singapore has a death penalty. Various places have the death penalty. Wherever you have the death penalty, you don't have drugs, but I…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …of here. I've already signed an Executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer. And tonight I'm asking Congress…

Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida

Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …and order in America, and we want to bring back the death penalty for these horrible people that kill people. They killed people. It's always…
  2. …case, but wherever you have no drug problem, you have the death penalty. So—and drugs causes a lot of the prime—a lot of…
  3. …they were going to give their maximum punishment, which is the death penalty, to anybody making fentanyl and sending it into the United States. Then…

Remarks on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Development and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …a deal with him where he was going to give the maximum penalty—which, in China, is the death penalty—for drug dealing. And he…
  2. …send to the United States, they were going to get the death penalty. And of course, Biden didn't pick that up. I had that deal…
  3. …But he should have followed up, because if they got the death penalty, they wouldn't be sending fentanyl to Mexico, Canada, and other places. We're…