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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.

“Drug” said in 35 of 83 transcripts, 197 times.

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Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 25 times

  1. …Huh? Yes. No, it's amazing. Under my Executive order to lower prescription drug prices, which I think is the single biggest thing we've ever done…
  2. …you wouldn't even think work on it, but they do—to slash drug prices by 200 percent, 300 percent, 400 percent, 500 percent, 600 percent…
  3. …could do it because they felt, number one, you couldn't get the drug companies to do it. So we're paying, as an example, for the…

Remarks During a Meeting With the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 8 times

  1. …that, look, he's done tremendous damage to our country, primarily because of drugs, but really—because we have that problem with other countries too—but…
  2. …love to help them. Would I want strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's okay with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs…
  3. …what we have done to the waterways? You know, there's almost no drugs coming in through our waterways anymore. Isn't it down like 85 percent…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 2 times

  1. …it; to people—came from prisons, they came from mental institutions, they're drug dealers. And they want to give them medical care, and we're not…
  2. …They were coming in from mental institutions. They were coming in as drug dealers. We had 11,888 murderers; half of them committed more than…

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

Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 12 times

  1. …is a national security problem. They killed 300,000 people last year—drugs—these drugs coming in. They killed 300,000 Americans last year, and…
  2. …to do that. You may respond to that if you want. And drug usage is way down. And drug usage coming from the sea—they…
  3. …And they end up, that's the end of them. So the ocean drugs and the sea drugs—"drugs by sea" they call it, also—that's…

Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 8 times

  1. …has gone on for 30 years. We've been reducing the rate of drugs for other countries because we've been paying much more than we're supposed…
  2. …my first term—I think it was my third year—we reduced drugs from one—from the beginning of the year to the end of…
  3. …the first time in 28 years that there was a reduction in drug prices for the year. So, from the beginning to the end, it…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Karol Nawrocki of Poland and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …see things happen. Yes. On the boat you had massive amounts of drugs. We have tapes of them speaking. There was massive amounts of drugs…
  2. …understands that. In fact, you see it. You see the bags of drugs all over the boat. And they were hit. Obviously, they won't be…
  3. …They're gone. But Venezuela has been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world into…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 16 times

  1. …a 1,500 percent cut, because people go to Europe to buy drugs, and they come back with drugs—prescription drugs, normal, not—I don't…
  2. …to have equalization, so we pay the same price as the lowest drug sold anywhere in the world. And I think, Bobby, that's going to…
  3. …money than what we're talking about. Then we have to get the drug companies to do it, and they'll do it because we have tremendous…

Remarks at a Meeting of the Make America Healthy Again Commission

May 22, 2025 Meeting 23 times

  1. …ways. For years, I noticed that other countries paid much less for drugs and pharmaceuticals than we did. But I don't mean 2 percent less…
  2. …and seen going into other countries, leaving on trips and bringing their drugs home because they'd get—in London, they'd be able to buy a…
  3. …know if there is a middleman. All I know is that the drugs were 10 times higher and sometimes more than that. And I really…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Following a Meeting With Republican Members of Congress

May 20, 2025 Meeting 16 times

  1. …not do the—we're going to have an 85-percent cut in drug costs. Eighty-five percent cut in drug costs. The Democrats—the drug…
  2. …don't vote for it, that means they're voting for an increase in drug prices—think of that—versus an 80 to an 85—maybe 75…
  3. …Oh, they won't lose health insurance. Not only that, remember, I'm cutting drug prices by 85 percent. And right now I've—I'm saving it. I'm…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 2 times

  1. …quickly. We officially designated Tren de Aragua, MS–13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and we're expelling these monsters from our…
  2. …country at will— just at will—people from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. When you look at that—what they've done to our country…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …Biden allowed into the country—hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers, and drug dealers. And I was elected because of the fact—I would say…
  2. …weeks. And no, we have to—we need to get murderers and drug dealers and people that were in jail for horrible—you know, they…
  3. …to be sent out of our country. They don't want killers and drug dealers and drug lords and people from mental institutions. They want them…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …we have people, but we have millions of people that are murderers, drug dealers. They've been allowed to come into our country by other countries…
  2. …Pharmaceuticals, we're going to do. We have—we don't make our own drugs, our own pharmaceuticals. We don't make our own drugs anymore. The drug…
  3. …future. And we're doing it because we want to make our own drugs. We're doing it because we want to make our own steel and…

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

Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …the 10. Correct. I don't see it at all, no. Not on drugs. We've done a great job. If you look at Tom Homan, he's…
  2. …They've done a great job in terms of the border. But the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of thousands of people…
  3. …just that. That's the ultimate. But the families are absolutely destroyed. The drugs come in through Mexico. They come—a lot of them, not all…

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

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 30 times

  1. …opened—they—emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum—gang members, drug lords, drug people, people on drugs, people that are very sick. They…
  2. …out why, in the United States, we pay $1,300 for a drug— one that we were talking about—and in London they pay—literally…
  3. …yesterday. They pay $88. We pay $1,300 for the exact same drug from the exact same factory, from the same plant where it's made…