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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.

“Border” said in 217 of 464 transcripts, 1,003 times.

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

Apr 13, 2025 Other 3 times

  1. …in the history of our country, and many, many other things, including border wall money. We built 571 miles of wall, but now we can…
  2. …As you know, we've just concluded a period of time where the border was the most secure it's been in the history of our country…
  3. …they caused a lot of problems, but what they've done to our border and to our country, you should never forget that, and you should…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 9 times

  1. …beautiful bill. It's tax cuts, regulation cuts, and many other things—the border, a lot of money for the border, where you're doing a fantastic…
  2. …down national debt, reducing taxes, creating good budgets, helping Kristi with the border and all of the other things. We built—I built hundreds of…
  3. …to have hundreds of thousands of people standing there pouring through the border in Tijuana, Mexico, this weekend, they had nobody. You had a man…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …most unbelievable job as somebody that's watching over our country at the border—— ——and with Tom Homan and your whole staff of tremendous people. So…
  2. …that election. Look what happened to our country because of it: open borders, millions of people coming into our country. Russia and Ukraine, that would…
  3. …those boxes. We got to have safe elections. We have to have borders. Ideally, we have to have a free press, which we don't have…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …their policy—the Democrats—is horrible. It's horrible. Think of it. Open borders. Just—all of the horrible, stupid things they have. You don't have…
  2. …All of these things—tariffs, the men in women's sports—everything—the borders, strong borders. We have the strongest border we've ever had. Today it…
  3. …lost since NAFTA, when 21 million illegal aliens were brought across our borders—think of that—many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …it was serious damage in so many other ways—not only the border, where people came rushing into our country from prisons and jails and…
  2. …And this is what they allowed into our country with their open border policy of lunacy. And we're taking care of that, just like we're…
  3. …up. And I knew that when I heard it was an open-border policy. I said, "If you do that, every country is going to…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border. Who would want an open border? How stupid is that? But he…
  2. …the jails emptied out right into our country, right along the open border on the—on Mexico—generally, the Mexico—open. They came in from…
  3. …too, by the way, a lot, but generally speaking, on the southern border. And what a shame it is that we are now working very…

Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports

Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …millions and millions of people to pour into our country with open borders, where the—it's so sad to see, even now. And I see…
  2. …everybody—Homeland Security. Thank everybody. Appreciate it. And we now have a border that's the best border that we've ever had—even better than it…
  3. …we had records then. We had the—we had the best, safest border. Four years ago, we the best border there ever was. And now…

Remarks During Telerally for Wisconsin State Supreme Court Candidate Brad D. Schimel

Mar 27, 2025 Tele-rally 4 times

  1. …our country from these people that are destroying it with their open borders and all of the transgender-for- everybody stuff, men in women's sports…
  2. …of people that they let into our country, Joe Biden and his border czar. You know, the border czar turned out to be the candidate…
  3. …the reason is because she was bad at everything, but especially as border czar. And we have Tom Homan in our group, and we have…

Remarks During a Telerally for Florida Republican Congressional Candidate Randy Fine

Mar 27, 2025 Tele-rally 3 times

  1. …Social Security, protect Medicare, cut your taxes, end inflation, fully fund our border and security agenda. And we have a big, big security agenda, which…
  2. …our country. I mean, it was so horribly with their stupid "open borders" policy. But we're getting them out. We're getting out murderers and drug…
  3. …of people, many of them criminals, into our country through their open border. But for that to happen, in terms of the greatness of our…

Remarks During a Telerally for Florida Republican Congressional Candidate Jimmy Patronis

Mar 27, 2025 Tele-rally 7 times

  1. …which is record-setting, or whether Jimmy Patronis will help keep your borders strong, your taxes low, and your economy roaring back. And that's what…
  2. …of theft, waste, fraud, and abuse, and he'll fully support President Trump's border security. You know, we set a record on the border today: the…
  3. …that, because almost nobody came in. But we're setting records at the border. We're letting people come in, but they have to come in legally…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country? Open borders. People from all over the world. Not South America. South America, but…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …little bit about what's happening and how well we've done at the border. That's great. Good job. Yesterday—there was a plaza that you know…
  2. …country. Yesterday I was speaking to somebody—I was checking on the border, and they said there was literally nobody in this massive plaza. You…
  3. …person. This is the people they were letting in through their open border policy. It was terrible. But I want to just congratulate you and…

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

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …playing in women's sports. They have transgender for everyone. They have open borders. They have all of their crazy policies that are, I think, 95…
  2. …Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where millions of people poured into our country, totally unvetted and totally…
  3. …plants—and they were going to sell the cars right across the border. We wouldn't have the jobs, we wouldn't have the profits, we wouldn't…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …sad. What they've done in 4 years to our country with the borders; with Afghanistan, the embarrassing—most embarrassing period of time; allowing the Russian…
  2. …big factor. We have to have honest elections, we have to have borders, and we have to have courts and law that's fair. Well, we're…
  3. …true, but it was close. And perhaps most importantly, we're securing our border and repelling the invasion of America. We have—you see the numbers…

Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …Canada should honestly become our 51st State. We wouldn't have a northern border problem. We wouldn't have a tariff problem. They don't have much—they…
  2. …great as our cherished 51st State. You wouldn't have to worry about borders. You wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way, Canada…

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

Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …don't want to go back and forth and around and through the borders and across Mexico border and Canada border and all over. They want…
  2. …They're very happy about what's happening. They won't have to go across borders. And you see the zigzag, and you have a fender made in…
  3. …We shouldn't have 21 million people pouring into our country through open borders, many of whom are criminals, very bad criminals, including murderers, thousands of…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …had so many other things to do. We had to fix the border, which we did. We had to fix our military. We rebuilt our…
  2. …shouldn't have to be spending anything on that. We had the safest border ever. Now we have, actually, as you saw—the numbers just came…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times

  1. …the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the…
  2. …our country. And what a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were, by far, the lowest ever recorded—ever. They…
  3. …child predators who were allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people—the Democrats, the Biden administration—the open border…

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

Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …incredible—and Kristi. They've done a great job in terms of the border. But the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of…
  2. …comes through Canada. And as Mexico gets stronger, in terms of the border, it goes up to Canada, and a lot of drugs are coming…
  3. …have never been here, that the Biden administration, with their stupid open borders, should have never allowed. They came in from prisons and jails and…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …Thank you very much. Great job. In just over 1 month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before…
  2. …I got elected based on taxes and based on many things, the border, but also based on balancing budgets and getting our country back into…
  3. …look at that very strongly. But we're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE. The ICE agents have been unbelievable. Border Patrol— their…

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

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times

  1. …corrupt special interest who drained our wealth, attacked our liberties, obliterated our borders, and sucked our country dry. Not any longer. But, on November 5…
  2. …go and vote for. They loved men playing in women's sports, open borders, little things like that. But don't tell them. Don't tell them. Keep…
  3. …Americans. We won all of the cities and towns along the Texas border. Whereas, before I ran, we won none. We never used to win…

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

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …all over the world be allowed to empty jails into an open border. They opened—they—emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum—gang…
  2. …disaster that we inherited. And we inherited a lot of them, the border being, I think— actually, I think it's the most difficult one of…
  3. …So, on day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country, because we were being invaded…

Remarks at a Republican Governors Association Meeting

Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …in there, and then you just go. Because there's no way—open borders with prisoners coming in. Jails. The worst—some of the worst murderers…
  2. …go and say, "I think it's a brilliant idea to have open borders, to allow prisons and mental institution people to pour in from all…
  3. …accomplishment. On day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border. I sent our military to the border to secure the sovereign territory…

Remarks at a Black History Month Reception

Feb 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …Americans. We're going to be fighting for all Americans. We've secured our border, and we're stopping the invasion of our country. You know, our border…
  2. …dealers. They had everybody dropping in, and we had this ridiculous open border policy. They'd drop in. And I'll tell you, the people that were…
  3. …in terms of the drugs and everything else. And we have the border shut down. We allow people to come in. We want people to…

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

Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …Biden allowed into our country with the ridiculous and very dangerous open-borders policy. They came from all over the world. They came from prisons…
  2. …of common sense. We're a party of common sense. We want strong borders. We don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want to…
  3. …of Mexico, because I complain constantly about people pouring in. Now our border is the strongest border we've ever had. We've gone from the worst…

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

Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …Mexico and then let them come through with this totally ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. So millions of people have come in…
  2. …large numbers through Canada. In fact, when we closed up the one border, they came in through the other border. So Canada was—is not…
  3. …that we accepted this. It's hard to believe that we allowed open borders, and we're taking in, you know, hundreds of thousands and millions of…

Remarks at a Republican Senate Conference in Palm Beach, Florida

Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …whatever reason, the Congo is prime territory to come into our southern border. They get them up to the border, and they let them in…
  2. …hope they don't learn, because—you know, they're still with the open borders. "We want open borders." Open borders are never going to sell. Men…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …sports. No longer. It's over. But we're going to be securing our borders, defending our freedoms, and restoring the principle of meritocracy—merit. We're a…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …to unify. There's big division. I mean, some people want an open border and some people want a closed border. We want it closed, and…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …A great friend of mine, and he's really helped us at the border, done a great job—of Texas, Greg Abbott. Thank you, Greg. Jim…
  2. …And it's okay, because as long as they do this—and open borders and all of the other things they talk about—transgender everything. All…
  3. …not having to do with this subject, but just as ridiculous. Open borders, where people are allowed to pour in from all over the world…