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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.

Counted forms: border, borders, border's.

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Remarks on United States Naval Ship Development and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida

Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 4 times

  1. …So we're doing a great job, and we enjoy doing it. Our border is secure. Our country is strong. Trillions of dollars is coming into…
  2. …the United States. Just walked right in, because Biden had an open-border policy. What the Biden administration did to our country can never be…
  3. …But Venezuela was one of the—Venezuela took advantage of the open borders that Biden created more than any other country. Tren de Aragua—we…

Remarks on the National Economy in Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 9 times

  1. …making it—really, life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. Our border was open, and our country was being invaded by an army of…
  2. …he voted yes on every single Biden disaster, including massive inflation, open borders, sanctuary cities, and the "green new scam." Don Davis betrayed North Carolina…
  3. …of a sudden—and they came in through Biden with his open border craziness. And these are vicious people. But I want this man to…

Address to the Nation on the Economy

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

  1. …administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word "affordability." Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by…
  2. …one, I took immediate action to stop the invasion of our southern border. For the past 7 months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed into…
  3. …said that he needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border? He was always blaming Congress and everyone else. As it turned out…

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 27 times

  1. …men and women for their central role in the protection of our border, something that I campaigned very, very strongly on. And they made me…
  2. …I mean, we went from having millions of people pouring over our border to having none in the last eight months. None. In a few…
  3. …commander of U.S. Northern Command, General Gregory Guillot; commander of the Southern Border Task Force, Major General Scott Naumann; Command Sergeant Major Brett Johnson of…

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 Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 15 times

  1. …Among everything else, it's national security. We've also rapidly turned the worst border crisis in world history—I believe we had the worst border ever…
  2. …fourth-world countries in also. It doesn't matter. There was never a border that was as bad as our border. We allowed anybody in with…
  3. …rapidly turned the worst border crisis in world history into the strongest border in the history of our country and probably one of the strongest…

Remarks During a Telerally for Tennessee Republican Congressional Candidate Matt Van Epps

Dec 1, 2025 Tele-rally Kalshi: Trump holds Telerally for Matt Van Epps 5 times

  1. …you go to just a playlist of the negatives. She wants open borders. You know, we have the most secure border in the history of…
  2. …now. We have the most secure border. We had the least secure border probably anywhere in the world. We took in 25 million people, many…
  3. …big fan of the policies of the Biden administration. She wants open borders. She wants transgender for everybody. She wants all of the things that…

Remarks During a Video Conference and Question-and-Answer Session With United States Servicemembers and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida

Nov 27, 2025 Other Kalshi: Trump calls service members on Thanksgiving 9 times

  1. …outstanding job leading the Task Force—Joint Task Force at our southern border. And we have nobody coming in. They're not coming in. Under Biden…
  2. …the millions. Now we have nobody coming in. We have a strong border. Nobody talks about it anymore. I'm not given credit for anything, just…
  3. …the greatest job. But that's all right. They don't talk about the border anymore because—you know why? Nobody comes in. We had 9 months…

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 and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Gyeongju, South Korea

Oct 29, 2025 Other 8 times

  1. …to make a big step with fentanyl. The thing with fentanyl—the border is now so tight, it's much tougher for them. We've been doing…
  2. …We have to stop it. And now we're stopping it at the border to a very much larger extent than ever before. Under Biden, you…
  3. …killed 300,000 people last year—fentanyl, drugs coming through the southern border. And now nobody gets through the southern border. We just had another…

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 an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Force One En Route to Tokyo, Japan

Oct 27, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …had murders came in through the Biden administration—we have very tight borders now, but we had open borders. Incredibly, we had open borders. What…
  2. …a war—that was thousands of people were already shot at the border. And when you look at what we just did was pretty amazing…

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…

The President's News Conference

Oct 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 9 times

  1. …cases, they were allowed in by a very foolish, actually stupid, open-border policy. Just anybody could have come in. They emptied out their jails…
  2. …America. They came in through the—well, they came in through the border. They came in because we had an open-border policy. And, as…
  3. …a country. And I've said it from the beginning: fair elections and borders. And we need also fair press, because if you don't have fair…

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…