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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 Oct 1, 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 at a Christmas Reception

Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …of that. In Miami, I won the Hispanic vote. Along the Texas border, I won every single city or town touching the Texas border, and…

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion With Business Leaders and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …Kristi. I'm so happy with her. I mean, we have a closed border. We have a border that's the best border in the history of…
  2. …it may very well be. I think it's also about, still, the border. You have to remember the job. You know, the sad thing is…
  3. …that. In fact, last night I said, "Let me talk about the border." My own people told me: "Sir, nobody cares about the border anymore…

Remarks on the National Economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 27 times

  1. …have to sell transgender to everybody. We don't have to sell open borders where the whole world is allowed to come into our country from…
  2. …you know, when they allow them to come in—we have a border that—by the way, they don't talk about the border. Why don't…
  3. …they're radical left—their people—their people, radical left, they rate the border and everything. You know how many people came into the border over…

Remarks on Lighting the National Christmas Tree

Dec 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: National Christmas Tree Lighting 3 times

  1. …Thank you to the police, law enforcement officers, first responders, ICE, and Border Patrol agents, who risk their lives every day to defend the innocent…
  2. …we have much to be grateful for on this holiday season. Our border is secure. Our spirit is restored. Most secure border we've ever had…

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 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 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…

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 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…

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 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 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…

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 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…