Official transcripts
White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“Nuclear” said in 138 of 464 transcripts, 527 times.
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May 15, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…not going to make—I'll—I call it, in a friendly way, "nuclear dust." We're not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran… …end up being a great country, frankly, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. That's the only thing. It's very simple. It's not like I… …pages worth of details. There's only one sentence: They can't have a nuclear weapon. And I think we're getting close to maybe doing a deal…
May 14, 2025 Other 1 time
…going to happen one way or the other. They can't have a nuclear weapon. So we'll either do it friendly, or we'll do it very…
May 14, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. I don't imagine there's anybody…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. But with that said… …never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack. The choice is theirs to make. We really want them to… …to be a wonderful, safe, great country, but they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an offer that will not last forever. The time…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and Pakistan, ending a dangerous conflict of two nations with lots of nuclear weapons. And they were going at it hot and heavy, and it… …We're going to be, soon, negotiating with Pakistan. And we stopped a nuclear conflict. I think it would have—it could have been a bad… …happening there too, by the way. I think—they can't have a nuclear weapon, but I think that they are talking intelligently. We're in the…
May 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…see a peace deal, a strong peace deal. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. But I would say that this is the single most important… …to get in the way of that, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. And if they choose to go a different route, it's going… …do, but we have no choice. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. Do you understand…
May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…Force base, which is 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapon—that's what they do. They make their nuclear missiles in—1… …anywhere in the world, 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles. It would have been great to have. Well, we were keeping…
Apr 25, 2025 Other 3 times
…It's a very simple deal. One thing: They just can't have a nuclear weapon. I'm saving them a lot of money just on that. Having… …really expensive, but it's also very dangerous, and they can't have a nuclear weapon. And just that, I'm saving them billions and billions of dollars…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…No impact whatsoever. I'm for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be… …it's like really very good. But with Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. And if they have a nuclear weapon, you'll all be very…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…going to hurt anybody. I really don't. But Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's, you know, pretty simple. It's really simple. We're not looking… …land. We're not—all we're saying is we—you can't have a nuclear weapon. The deal that was made—the deal that was made with… …would have expired, and that gave them a clear path to a nuclear weapon. I wouldn't have accepted. That's why I terminated the deal. Number…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…along. But Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. He can't have a nuclear… …we can't have anybody having nuclear weapons. You know? We can't have nuclear weapons. And I think they're tapping us along because they were so… …thing is—one thing, simple; it's really simple—they can't have a nuclear weapon, and they've got to go fast, because they're fairly close to…
Apr 11, 2025 Other 3 times
…very much, everybody. Only that. I want them not to have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country, but… …There's a meeting going on right now. But, with Iran, I want them to flourish, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. Thank you, everybody
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…Not you. I'll be telling China. Yes. Well, they can't have a nuclear weapon. Oh, if necessary, absolutely. Yes. Yes, I do. You're talking about… …have much time—— ——because we're not going to let them have a nuclear weapon. We can't let them have a nuclear weapon. And we're going… …be great. The only thing they don't—they can't have is a nuclear weapon. They understand that. You know, the people are so incredible in…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…for Afghanistan—because it's 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. Wouldn't it be nice to have it? You know who occupies…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and doing a great job. And I said, "If we have a nuclear power plant, Lee, can you get it approved in less than a… …gone, the environment. No, what they have to worry about is the nuclear —nuclear heat. They don't have to worry about environmental heat. They have… …They say this is going to—these guys can handle that. The nuclear we have a bigger problem with, right? So, we're going to make…
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…I hate to say it, great danger, because they can't have a nuclear weapon. You know, it's not a complicated formula. Iran cannot have a… …there is. Can't have it. Right now we have countries—— ——that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it, but I'm sure we'll be able to… …of this, later on down the line. But Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And if the talks aren't successful, I actually think it'll be…
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…communication. Yes. I think that's very important. You know, he's a big nuclear nation, and he's a very smart guy. I got to know him…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…base, which is one hour away from China, where they make their nuclear weapons. Would have been nice to have it. But now, you know…
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…fine with me. But they are talking about ownership of the big nuclear power plant, in particular. But all of these things will come up…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…this guy, Trump. This guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear weapons that we have." "He will use the nuclear—he has no… …they were 1 hour away from where China has and builds its nuclear missiles and weapons. And they gave that up. In the dark of… …and that would have been a war like no other because of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons that—hey, people, you don't even…
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…nonnuclear programs. Maybe they're going to be talking about the deescalation of nuclear weapons, because, you know, I was talking about that with President Putin… …on de-escalation, denuclearization, as they say. But we would have deescalated nuclear weapons, because the power of nuclear weapons is so great and so… …know, in a smaller way—Kim Jong Un has a lot of nuclear weapons, by the way—a lot—and others do also. You have…
Mar 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…one of the most important—he's going to get those approvals. A nuclear power plant will take less than 2 weeks to get approved. Right…
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…understand what I mean. I hate to even mention the name—the nuclear name. I hate to mention it. But you have weapons today that…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…final moments. We're at final moments. You can't let them have a nuclear weapon. I would—I think that I would have had a deal…
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…to an end so we don't have to talk that way about nuclear . It'd be great if everybody would get rid of their nuclear weapons… …would be great if we could all denuclearize, because the power of nuclear weapons is crazy. It is crazy. And you know, I was very…
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…having it. It was 1 hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons. We would have kept Bagram, what—one of the biggest air…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…China, because it's exactly 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles. So they—we were going to keep Bagram. We were going…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…the Department of the Interior has all the energy, other than some nuclear energy that you're in charge of. But he has all the energy… …powered by natural gas, mostly. Some will use coal. Some will use nuclear . Clean coal. I only say "clean coal," but some will use nuclear…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…talked to China about it. Now, Russia and us have the biggest nuclear by far. China is not close, but they will be close. In… …were going to denuclearize it. We were—had to get the smaller nuclear powers, of which there are four—three, maybe, but four probably—to… …many things besides weapons, per se. When I saw the power of nuclear weapons—and we can never let that happen. If that happens, the…
Feb 13, 2025 Press conference 7 times
…be, hopefully, their number-one supplier in the groundbreaking development for U.S. nuclear industry. India is also reforming its laws to welcome U.S. nuclear technology… …of Indians and tens of billions of dollars to the U.S.-civilian nuclear industry in India. And under the framework we are announcing today, the… …important. You know, the power of weaponry today is—and not only nuclear , but nuclear, in particular—the power of weaponry is very important. I…
Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…be meeting with China. You know, we were trying to de-escalate nuclear . And I was in a position where Russia had agreed and China… …very big way. There's no reason for us to be building brandnew nuclear weapons. We already have so many, you could destroy the world 50… …over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they're building nuclear weapons, and China is building new nuclear weapons. And China is trying…
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…is Energy, but there is no energy. He's the department—there's some nuclear , but there's no energy. He is Interior; he's got all the energy…
Feb 4, 2025 Press conference 4 times
…seen in decades. Together, we defeated ISIS, we ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal—one of the worst deals ever made, by the way—and… …I hope that we're able to do that. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. I'm not putting restrictions. I'm not— they cannot… …a nuclear weapon. And if I think that they will have a nuclear weapon, despite what I just said, that—I think that's going to…
Feb 4, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…and we're not—we're not going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. You know, I signed a very strong proclamation… …But you know what? We just don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. You don't know what he…
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…to see. I mean, we're going to see. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. With me, it's very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon… …want to be tough on anybody, but they just can't have a nuclear weapon. I would. Well, we have the right to do that, and… …love to have a good relationship with everybody. They can't have a nuclear weapon. That was my only—that was the only thing that was…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…for China, because it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. And we were keeping it. So we have a lot of…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…would have come along. China has a—a much smaller, right now, nuclear armament than us or field than us, but they're—they're going to… …that President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear . And I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten… …China also liked it. Tremendous amounts of money are being spent on nuclear , and the destructive capability is something that we don't even want to…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…well. They thought that was a tremendous threat. Now, he is a nuclear power, but we got along. I think he'll be happy to see…