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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 Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …in—it was called unforced error. It—they were let in by Biden—incompetently let in—and let in by the millions, actually. Twenty-one…
  2. …a week. And also, the United States is—has paid, because of Biden, $350 billion on a war that should have never happened. If we…
  3. …ask: Did he have the authority to allow millions of people? Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters During a Tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 17, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …we're going to see how it all works out. This was Joe Biden's deal. This isn't Trump's deal. This is Joe Biden's deal. He gave…
  2. …they should actually have much more in it than us. But Joe Biden was grossly incompetent, and it's a shame what they did. Three hundred…
  3. …that with many. I would say if there are 18 with Hunter Biden, that will be something I'll look at this afternoon. Okay? I just…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 16, 2025 Other 7 times

  1. …ask the lawyers. Yes. Well, this is a time of war, because Biden allowed millions of people—many of them criminals, many of them—at…
  2. …came out. They're walking our streets. We have thousands of murderers that Biden and his incompetence—he—first of all, he's grossly incompetent—but that…
  3. …they charge us and we don't charge them. It's foolish Presidents in—Biden, but others also. In all fairness, look, Biden is the worst President…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from hell came from Russia when they knew it came right…
  2. …never been seen before. And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their cronies. To do the building of the last…
  3. …the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell. We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin…

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

Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …they're right there. And yet, we're in for $350 billion because of Biden, and they're in for $100 billion. So it's a big difference, and…
  2. …They should equalize. They should have—it should have never happened, where Biden just gave his money away. Now, as you know, we're—we have…
  3. …with? Very nice. That's good. That's good. Many of them. Yes. No, Biden fudged the numbers. The numbers were totally fake, and he gave fake…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …at number 37, 38, 39, and 40. And recently, they hit—during Biden's last few days, they hit last. So they were number 40. And…
  2. …This is a situation that could lead to World War III, and Biden should have never let it happen. Incompetence allowed this to happen. This…
  3. …Barack Hussein Obama, right? They're trying to take the whole thing from Biden. They're going for the whole ball of wax. Who was the only…

Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …I could have done it the easy way. I could have coasted. Biden left us a mess. He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high cost…
  2. …going to get killed—lots of people. Sure. Absolutely. No, I think Biden gave us a horrible economy. He gave us horrible inflation, and I…
  3. …you look at what's happened there: We caught the major terrorist, which Biden wouldn't have caught. Why didn't he catch him? I caught him. Five…

Remarks at the White House Digital Assets Summit

Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …they not sold them. But they did sell them, mostly during the Biden administration, and not a good—not a good thing to have done…
  2. …bureaucracy's war on crypto, which was really going on pretty wildly during Biden, until the election came about. About 5 months before the election, he…

Remarks on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on the Employment Situation in February and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …deal. That's what you want to hear. During the last year, the Biden administration saw a loss of more than 110,000 manufacturing jobs, or…
  2. …lost more than 27,000 auto jobs in the final year of Biden. These are also high-paying jobs. These are very prime jobs. The…
  3. …is presiding over a brandnew domestic manufacturing boom after major collapse under Biden. It was a collapse. All he did is keep adding new Government…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …unbelievable deal with China—$50 billion in purchases. And we're doing great. Biden, however, when he came in, he never—they never enforced that deal…
  2. …me later. Maybe I shouldn't do this interview. I should be like Biden, not do any interviews. That's great. Women, we love you. Thank you…
  3. …to know if we could just continue. They said, without us—look, Biden wasn't able to get anybody out. We came along, and they started…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …chose not to come. Much easier that way. In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst President in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of…
  2. …from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council. We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally…
  3. …every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again. Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg…

Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …think it's—look, it's a great deal for us, because, you know, Biden very, very, foolishly—stupidly, frankly—gave $300 billion and—$350 billion, more…
  2. …Europe, I'm saying they're just—they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden, because Joe Biden didn't have a clue. He just gave money hand…
  3. …back to Bush, you go back to Obama, and go back to Biden— they took a lot. The only one they didn't get—you know…

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

Feb 28, 2025 Meeting 13 times

  1. …of very good conversations. I will say, until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever. They didn't speak to anybody. They…
  2. …want to—this is a tremendous amount of money. And what the Biden administration did was terrible. They were giving money, but he had no…
  3. …had, and we're treating—you know, our country is now treated fairly. Biden didn't do that. Biden—he didn't know what the hell he was…

The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom

Feb 27, 2025 Press conference 2 times

  1. …to be paid back, and we didn't have that honor under the Biden administration. He sent money—would just send it, money after money after…
  2. …levels that nobody has really ever seen before. And especially under the Biden administration, they really took advantage of the United States. I put massive…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …money back, and now we'll get our money back also. But under Biden, you wouldn't have done that. Biden did a terrible job, I have…
  2. …their money back by giving money. We don't get the money back. Biden made a deal. He put in $350 billion, and I thought it…
  3. …It's just not going to happen. That's what started this whole thing. Biden said that, and, all of a sudden, the guns started. That was…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …it here, because a lot of that was put back on by Biden. But the biggest complaint is the fact that they can't have any…
  2. …I don't want to have to pay any more money, because we've— Biden has spent $350 billion without any chance of getting it back. Now…
  3. …be able to take advantage of us. They—what they did to Biden was—he didn't know what was happening. He didn't know what he…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …in health care. It takes a little while to kick in. But Biden ended it immediately upon coming in, which was a terrible travesty, in…
  2. …even if you look at polling, they're very happy because, you know, Biden was throwing money around like it's cotton candy, and it's a very…
  3. …remember the famous Javelins? That was me. That wasn't Obama. It wasn't Biden. It wasn't anybody else. It was me. And they wiped out a…

Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times

  1. …addicted. They were sending them all into our ridiculous and very stupid Biden open border. Our border czar was Kamala. Haven't said that name in…
  2. …candidates. They said, "Who did you run against?" Well, we ran against Biden, and we ran against Kamala Harris. But illegal border crossings now have…
  3. …we lost over a trillion dollars to China this last year under Biden. Crooked Joe Biden. What do we like better: Crooked Joe or Sleepy…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Howard W. Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …know, Europe is also doing it in the form of a loan. Biden just gave them money. There was no loan, there was no security…
  2. …have a big, beautiful ocean in between. But it does affect—and Biden should have never gotten us into this mess. We had an incompetent…
  3. …signed long before we went in. This should have been signed by Biden. But Biden didn't know too much about what he was doing. The…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a National Governors Association Meeting

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …anybody in the world. We just didn't use it. Can you imagine? Biden set us up in Venezuela instead of taking ours, so that we…
  2. …were going to have that in any form we wanted it, but Biden made them strong. It was the worst administration in history. And I…
  3. …we are going—they're incredible people, ICE. They were being shunned by Biden. They were being mocked. And let me tell you, these are tough…

Remarks at a Republican Governors Association Meeting

Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …never taking them back. Don't even try." They said that during the Biden administration. It didn't work. They're taking them back. They have no choice…
  2. …taking them back. Don't even waste your time." They said that to Biden. He said, "Well, they have us over a barrel." They don't have…
  3. …to use the yuan, China. They wanted to use the yuan. And Biden said: "Well, this is a tough situation. There's not much we can…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Feb 19, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …we're in for $350 billion. There's no reason that should have happened. Biden—it's Biden's fault. He shouldn't have allowed that to happen. But, on…
  2. …they're going to pay you back." And they didn't do that. So Biden didn't do it. It's his fault. Nobody has ever seen anything so…
  3. …product, and we were making them buy it. The problem is that Biden didn't push them to adhere to it. I think that we should…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida

Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …approved. Actually, I got it approved twice. I got it approved, and Biden ended it. That was a shocker. But we just got it approved…
  2. …country, but we are moving quickly to fix every single disaster Joe Biden created and make America stronger and more prosperous than ever before. Our…
  3. …that, and they wasted monies at never-seen-before levels. If Joe Biden had simply held Federal spending at the prepandemic levels we had in…

Remarks Following a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida

Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …down. But they chose not to do it that way. And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue. What he—he was…
  2. …it looked like that was going to be very good. And when Biden came in, as he always does, he screws it up. And they…
  3. …bit early. But you know, we were not buying from Venezuela. When Biden came in, for whatever reason, instead of just taking the beautiful, as…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Upon Arrival in West Palm Beach, Florida

Feb 16, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …Bush, they took a lot. Under Obama, they took a lot. Under Biden, they're trying to take the whole thing. And under Trump, they took…
  2. …know, they contracted for those weapons a long time ago, in the Biden administration, and then Biden wouldn't deliver the weapons. But I look at…
  3. …I have had nothing to do with inflation. This was caused by Biden. I had 4 years of virtually no inflation. So I'm just taking…

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

Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …other thing I'd like Doug to mention—the 635 million acres that Biden so viciously took out of our—our net worth. If you look…
  2. …do it. I got it. And the first week in office, the Biden administration terminated that. ANWR is the biggest site, probably bigger than Saudi…
  3. …They couldn't make a deal to get energy—any energy from the Biden administration. They just couldn't do it. There was nobody to deal with…

Interview With Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel's "Sean Hannity Show"

Feb 14, 2025 Interview 7 times

  1. …codified, you'd never be able to break them. So the damage that Biden has done to this country—and it's not even Biden; it's the…
  2. …are you—when are you getting them? They got left in space. Biden. When are they—when are you going to launch? And you have…
  3. …now have the go-ahead. They didn't have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave him in space. I think he was…

The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India

Feb 13, 2025 Press conference 5 times

  1. …Well, I don't think India had a very good relationship with the Biden administration. Biden—they wouldn't sell them oil and gas, which is rather…
  2. …that weren't very appropriate, I thought, between India and the administration—the Biden administration. But as you said, we're giving a very violent man—it…
  3. …Bush, they lost a lot. Under President Obama, they lost Crimea. Under Biden, it looks like they could lose the whole thing. Under Trump, they…

Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …the fact that—I believe that's the reason the war started, because Biden went out and said that they could join NATO, and he shouldn't…
  2. …war that would have never happened if I were President. I think Biden is incompetent. And I think when he said that they could join…
  3. …I think it could have happened a long time ago. I think Biden—number one, it shouldn't have started, but it did. And now all…

Remarks During a Swearing-in Ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …she was outrageously placed on a suspected terrorist watch list by the Biden regime—it was a very evil regime—after criticizing their appalling abuses…
  2. …we've made a lot of progress. This should have been done by Biden, not by me, because this has been going on for now a…
  3. …it in the form of a loan. And the United States, under Biden, didn't do loans. They just handed money. Every time somebody walked in…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With King Abdullah II of Jordan and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 11, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …done. Yes. And that's right. This should have been done by the Biden administration, but you know, they didn't do anything. They didn't know what…
  2. …hell they were doing. So this should have been done by the Biden administration. This should have never happened, because October 7 would have never…
  3. …it would have been—it would have been so great if the Biden administration would have started this. But actually, in all fairness to them…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …really expected it for years. They really expected it sometime during the Biden administration, but they didn't do anything. As you know, I put tariffs…
  2. …We took in hundreds of billions of dollars with those tariffs, and Biden wasn't able to get them out. He tried to, but it was…
  3. …all looking for that particular individual. This was all let in by Biden and the group of stupid people—bad people and stupid people. Some…

Remarks on Signing a Proclamation on Gulf of America Day and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to New Orleans, Louisiana

Feb 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …this. When I came here, they were going to buy it, and Biden was going to approve it. All of a sudden, Biden didn't because…
  2. …it. And we've done it with some people. We've done it with Biden himself—Biden himself. We think our country is not as safe if…
  3. …that came up with the Space Force. I'm very proud of it. Biden tried to get out of it, and he was really rebuked by…

The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan

Feb 7, 2025 Press conference 2 times

  1. …more money than they do. And yet we're ranked, this year, last—Biden's last year—congratulations, Joe—we're ranked dead last. So what I want…
  2. …sell them LNG. They wouldn't sell. Japan wanted to buy LNG, and Biden wouldn't sell it. And I'm trying to figure that one out. Maybe…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …lost everything they owned, the—numerous people, many people dead. FEMA under Biden was a disaster. They didn't—they were almost not even—they essentially…

Remarks on Withdrawing United States Support for United Nations Organizations and Imposing Economic Sanctions on Iran and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …be anything left. And they shouldn't be able to do it. And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don't know why…
  2. …I can't imagine they'd do that. It should have been stated by Biden, but he didn't state it because he had no clue, as you…
  3. …China and against everybody else. Right now they've taken advantage of the Biden administration like I've never seen. I've never seen—the deficit with China…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …starting to see that because we've done more in 2 weeks than Biden has done in 4—5 years, 6 years. If they could be…
  2. …have been done a long time ago. It went crazy during the Biden administration—they went totally crazy, what they were doing and the money…
  3. …in for $200 billion less. Why are they in for less? Because Biden never asked them for money. He never said, "You've got to pay…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …I didn't put the tariffs on years ago—on steel, which, actually, Biden left because it was so much money that they couldn't do anything…
  2. …This was all caused by bad rules, regulations, and other things by Biden—the Biden administration. And when you look at the way they ran…
  3. …happening again. And this was all because of weak rules in the Biden administration, and we're just not going to let that kind of thing…

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 6 times

  1. …that, and we had it. And then when I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before. I…
  2. …that you could have. And then they changed it back—that was Biden—to a standard you just—I read it to you. That was…
  3. …powerful tests that we put to use, and they were terminated by Biden. And Biden went by a standard that's the exact opposite. So we…