We moved to mentions.tools. Your data stays here until you .

Official transcripts

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 94 of 241 transcripts, 455 times.

Counted forms: drug, drugs, drug's.

Official transcripts can spell a word differently. Only the forms above are counted, so search other spellings too.

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya; and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow; as well as Dr. Ilana Braun from the…
  2. …or form and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug. It has nothing to do with that. Just as the prescription painkillers…
  3. …especially in this case, if you take a look: illegal and unregulated drugs—very, very bad thing. So I've always told my children: "Don't take…

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 8 times

  1. …came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50 percent…
  2. …safety that we've never seen before. And they decimated the bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves, with our people, and we're…
  3. …up to the special interests to dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs. I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations, which were…

Remarks on Presenting the Mexican Border Defense Medal and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 8 times

  1. …Brett Johnson of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division; Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Terry Cole; and many other members of our administration who…
  2. …years before I took office, our southern border was surrendered to criminals, drug cartels, human traffickers, and child smugglers. Our entire Southwest border on the…
  3. …and we don't put up with it. I have to say, the drugs coming in by sea are down 94 percent, and we're trying to…

Remarks on Signing the Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Bill Signing Ceremony 7 times

  1. …reporter or a small-time reporter that. But we are knocking out drugs at levels that nobody has ever seen before. We knocked out 96…
  2. …want to be the 4 percent either. But 96 percent of the drugs coming in by water. Every one of those boats you see get…
  3. …25,000 American lives. But we knocked out 96 percent of the drugs coming in by water. And now we're starting by land, and by…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 3 times

  1. …people to come into our country from their prisons, from gangs, from drug dealers, and from mental institutions, probably, proportionately, more than anybody else. They…
  2. …now we're not treating them so good. If you look at the drug traffic, drug traffic by sea is down 92 percent, and nobody can…

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

Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …rid of a lot of bad ones from jails, from mental institutions, drug dealers. We're getting a lot of—a lot of bad people. Murderers…
  2. …problems if he doesn't wise up. Colombia is producing a lot of drugs, a lot of—they have cocaine factories that—they make cocaine, as…
  3. …Because we don't like people when they kill people. And they sell drugs, they kill them in the United States. And Colombia is a major…

Remarks on the National Economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 3 times

  1. …illegally—again, many of them from prisons, many of them gang members, drug members, Tren de Aragua. More Americans are working today than at any…
  2. …same missile that knocks the crap out of them, that—with the drug dealers from Venezuela and others. That same missile, think of it, from…
  3. …of them get hit, they say, "We'll pass." So we've cut down drugs 94 percent coming in from sea. Ninety-four. Right? Ninety-four percent…

Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner

Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 2 times

  1. …4 years came into our country, many from prisons and gang members, drug dealers, mental institutions. They came into our country. We're getting them out…
  2. …strong stand, and people are really liking it. And by the way, drugs coming into our country by sea, down 94 percent. Okay? Down 94…

Remarks on Fuel Efficiency Standards and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 3 times

  1. …if you look at our—— If you look at our numbers, the drugs coming in through sea are down 91 percent. I'm surprised there's 9…
  2. …couple of things. We'll see what happens with that. Venezuela sends us drugs, but Venezuela sends us people that they shouldn't be sending. They sent…
  3. …prisons into our country. They sent us killers, murderers. They sent us drug dealers at the highest level. They sent us gang members. They sent…

Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 21 times

  1. Well, this is very exciting, because, again, we're bringing drug prices down to levels nobody ever thought was possible. Tremendous cuts—200 percent, 300 percent…
  2. …Nordisk, have agreed to offer their most popular GLP–1 weight-loss drug—I call it the "fat drug," remember?—at drastic discounts. They're very…
  3. …notify you immediately. But so far, I haven't heard that. Including the drugs known as Zepbound and Wegovy, often called Ozempic. This is a triumph…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 8 times

  1. …just came into our country from prisons and from mental institutions and drug dealers and drug addicts, and they want to give them $1.5…
  2. …disgrace. On day one, I signed an Executive order to designate the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Had a big—we had a big…
  3. …are way down. I'll tell you where they're really way down is drugs coming in through water. People are saying, "No, thanks. I don't think…

Remarks at a Breakfast With Republican Senators

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …to people that came into the country illegally, many from prisons, many drug dealers. A lot of people came in from mental institutions. They want…

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. …that. This is what you wanted, Pete. He's so happy now. Those drug ships aren't coming in anymore. We can't find a ship. There's no…
  2. …an invasion. Losing hundreds of thousands of people to fentanyl and to drugs. And now we have the most secure border in American history. For…
  3. …it. And with the help of our warfighters, were decimating the savage drug cartels that poison our people. Two hundred thousand people, maybe more than…

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 15 times

  1. …in recent weeks to arrest, prosecute, and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from American soil. And the people gathered around this table are…
  2. …earlier this year, I signed an Executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and savage transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It was my…
  3. …came in from mental institutions and insane asylums all over the world. Drug dealers. And we got them the hell out of here. They're either…

Remarks at a White House Diwali Celebration and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Diwali Celebration 7 times

  1. …maybe the thing we've done the best on is prices for our drugs. We have favored nations now, where other nations, as you know, were…
  2. …numbers more. And I said we're not doing that anymore. And the drug companies have agreed, and the countries have agreed. Now, if I didn't…
  3. …for more than the equivalent amount." And amazingly, everybody agreed. So our drug prices are going to be coming down a hundred percent, 200 percent…

Remarks on Expanding Access to Fertility Care and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 19 times

  1. …of IVF and the treatment and many of the most common fertility drugs for countless millions of Americans. Prices are going way down—way, way…
  2. …major reason for these high prices is the excessive cost of the drugs involved. The number one fertility drug used in IVF is currently 700…
  3. …Nobody thought we'd be able to do it, and we've done it. Drugs are going to come down. Drug prices are coming down 400 percent…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 3 times

  1. …And speaking of Venezuela, we've—you know, we have a lot of drugs. We had a lot of drugs coming in by water. That stopped…
  2. …having—literally, it was like a subway train of people, of—and drugs coming into this country, a lot of them coming from Venezuela. A…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 12 times

  1. …I'm excited to announce another historic achievement in our quest to lower drug prices for all Americans. You know, prices have come way down. We've…
  2. …committing to offer Americans major discounts on their vast catalog of prescription drugs—one of the great companies, by the way—and a most-favored…
  3. …Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription drugs by far—by far—many times the amount that other countries are…

Remarks on the Navy 250 Celebration at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia

Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times

  1. …anymore. Sorry to tell you that. But it's—we stopped—we're stopping drugs coming into America, if that's okay. We're stopping drugs at a level…
  2. …even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in and drugs pouring in. Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore. So now…
  3. …our country—from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions and insane asylums—drug dealers, murderers—11,788 murderers were allowed to come into our country…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer With Artificial Intelligence and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …of words about our past meeting, where we're going to be lowering drug prices by 50, 100, 200, even 500 percent, even 1,000. We…
  2. …are paying a fraction of what we pay for the same exact drug, same exact pharmaceutical, everything. And I said, "No, that's not right." And…
  3. …of myself because I'm the first President in 28 years that cut drug prices from beginning to end. So they went down—I think it…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 20 times

  1. …for you, because it's going to be a lowering of medical prices—drug prices, like in the history of our country has never happened before…
  2. …the United States. It was a result of the most-favored-nation drug pricing order that we established earlier this year. As you know, the…
  3. …Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription drugs. They paid far more—10 times, 13 times, 15 times more—than…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …let this happen. Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions—drug dealers, murderers. You know, we had 11,488 murderers allowed into our…
  2. …seen the boats going. "We can't find any more boats." They're carrying drugs. Massive—every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they had…
  3. …stacked up with bags of white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs too. And now we have a problem. General Caine said: "Sir, there…

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 11 times

  1. …pouring in from all over the world—from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers—all over the world they came. They just poured into our…
  2. …the economy. Joe Biden's policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners—prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration…
  3. …that did this. To protect our citizens, I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as—and you see this, and you see it happening right…

Remarks on Children's Health and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 12 times

  1. …the country. The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing some autism symptoms. This gives hope…
  2. …that you put it all into the body, and maybe that's the drug companies. They make more money that way. Maybe it's the doctors, because…
  3. …because there are other things, other—we were talking about another—different drugs, pills that you take that we know are so bad, and they…

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

Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 17 times

  1. …nations, Oz? Next week, okay. Favored nations. We're going to be reducing drug prices down to a level that nobody—not by 20 percent, 30…
  2. …been going on for a long time. That was a deal with drug companies and nations, how to take advantage of the United States. You're…
  3. …we're going to literally be cutting prices by 500 percent, 600 percent. Drugs that sell for $88 in London are selling for $130. You know…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …from Pfizer, where they spent a lot of money, and the other drug companies. They spent a lot of money on finding out the results…
  2. …he allowed into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. And we're getting them out, and we're getting them out fast…
  3. …They're really, really sick people, they're dangerous people, they're killers, they're murderers, drug dealers. And can't have it. You can't have a country like that…

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? 4 times

  1. …of boats. Now there are no boats. I wonder why? Meaning, no drugs are coming across. Probably stopping some fishermen too. I mean, to be…
  2. …trip," because I'd say: "Man, if they—maybe they think I have drugs downstairs. I don't want that." I think the fishing business has probably…
  3. …to see it. Now, what does that mean? That means there's no drugs coming by sea, but they do come by land. And you know…

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 12 times

  1. …Yes. It depends on the individual instance. You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela or anybody else or anyplace else, and we'll…
  2. …I say that. I can only say that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela. The prisons of Venezuela have…
  3. …But millions and millions of—of dollars and—billions of dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're…

Remarks on Signing Executive Orders To Reduce Crime and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …getting murderers and jailbirds and people out of this country who are drug dealers at the highest level. So much of the energy of people…
  2. …24 hours' notice. And we're doing a lot to interdict—to stop drugs from coming in too. We have ships out on sea. You know…
  3. …have something coming up—favored nations—where I'm going to be reducing drug prices by 14-, 1,500 percent, where a pill that sells in…

Remarks at White House Reception for Republican Members of Congress

Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times

  1. …was so proud of myself because I worked very hard, and pharmaceuticals, drug prices, went down for the first time in 28 years. Think of…
  2. …I was so proud, I called a news conference to announce that drug prices have gone down for the first time in many years. And…
  3. …nice. And he takes Ozempic, or, as they call it, "the fat drug." And he's a brilliant guy. He's rich, tough, highly neurotic. He's a…

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

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …ourselves in this position. Today we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so…
  2. …a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence in prison. We'll be getting the drug dealers, pushers, and peddlers off our street, and we will not rest…
  3. …Thank you very much. My nominee to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sara Carter. Sara. Great reporter too. She was a very…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …they did. They came in from prisons, and they came in from drugs and gangs and drug lords, the worst in the world. They came…
  2. …criminals out. Everybody agrees. And we're finding the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers. We're getting them the hell out of here. But the farmers…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on the "Alligator Alcatraz" Migrant Detention Facility and an Exchange With Reporters in Ochopee, Florida

Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …came into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, from street gangs, drug dealers. It's disgusting. This enormous country-destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide…
  2. …ICE will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels, which are coming back into our country. And we are—we…