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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.

“Maduro / Venezuela” said in 51 of 251 transcripts, 137 times.

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Remarks on Signing the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in a signing ceremony 3 times

  1. …found and is in jail right now. And that's the leaker on Venezuela. We had a very bad leaker. So there could be some others…
  2. …there's everything we can do. You found that out last week with Venezuela. There's everything we can do about things such as that. Not going…
  3. …lot of things. And I think we're getting along very well with Venezuela. Yes, please. Yes. He's fantastic. The person is fantastic. It's a he…

Remarks to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan

Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 11 times

  1. …all I'm doing is spewing off what the hell we've done. Even Venezuela wasn't too bad, was it? Huh? But you have people—Democrats—they…
  2. …1 year ago, we would have been, as I have often said, Venezuela on steroids. Now I'm Venezuela's biggest fan. We're working with them. But…
  3. …to a disaster—you know, a disaster. And we would have been Venezuela on steroids. And we're bringing Venezuela back, and we're going to be…

Remarks at the House Republican Members Retreat

Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 6 times

  1. …highest quality printer in the—and you have a woman, "Huh, free Maduro." And the sign is before we even did the attack. You know…
  2. …we did such a great job on the border. By the way, Venezuela—everyone, they're marching in the streets. They love it. Except in New…
  3. …come in from prisons from all over the world—but in particular, Venezuela, Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua comes in. And Tren de Aragua…

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 8 times

  1. …Please. No. No. Anywhere. Anywhere drugs are pouring in. Anywhere. Not just Venezuela. No. Yes. Yes. Going to do with what? We're going to keep…
  2. …the ships also. Yes, please. Yes. I have— We're talking about with Venezuela? Well, you had a different kind of a President before me. They…
  3. …mind drugs pouring into our country. They didn't mind the jails of Venezuela and Tren de Aragua being emptied into the U.S., where they take…

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 3 times

  1. …worst—most violent criminals anywhere on Earth—from many countries, not just Venezuela. Venezuela emptied their jails into our country, but others have also. The…
  2. …pathetic man who was run by Tren de Aragua. The criminals from Venezuela took over sections of Colorado, and he was afraid to do anything…

Remarks on the National Economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 2 times

  1. …war. The Congo, their entire prison population was sent into our country. Venezuela, their entire prison population was dumped into our country. And now we…
  2. …knocks the crap out of them, that—with the drug dealers from Venezuela and others. That same missile, think of it, from hundreds of miles…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 6 times

  1. …are hell-bent on turning America into a communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela, and you see what happened to those places. For generations, Miami has…
  2. …people from prisons. We don't want prisons dumped into our country like Venezuela did. They emptied their prisons into our country. We don't want that…
  3. …blowing up cartel terrorists and—we're blowing them up—linked to the Maduro regime in Venezuela and others. Look, it's not just—it's not just…

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 5 times

  1. …No, it's not accurate. No. It's false. But we're not happy with Venezuela for a lot of reasons, drugs being one of them. But also…
  2. …years ago when everybody was pouring in. But we're very unhappy with Venezuela because of what they've done. They've emptied their prisons into our country…
  3. …had running our country: very stupid people. So we're not happy with Venezuela, I will tell you. Yes. Yes, please. Go ahead. Are you okay…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 4 times

  1. …they were literally emptying out insane asylums into our country. This is Venezuela, but other countries also, not only Venezuela. And speaking of Venezuela, we've…
  2. …and drugs coming into this country, a lot of them coming from Venezuela. A lot of them come from Mexico and Colombia too, in all…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …South America. No, but from all over. A lot came in from Venezuela. Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have…
  2. …had that problem. It's very interesting. It's amazing. It's just like in Venezuela—you've seen the boats going. "We can't find any more boats." They're…
  3. …any more boats on the ocean. You don't see any boats around Venezuela. There's nothing. As President, I will never hesitate to defend our people…

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 3 times

  1. …There aren't too many boats that are traveling on the seas by Venezuela. They tend not to want to travel very quickly anymore. And we…
  2. …world—MS–13 and Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua is from Venezuela, by the way. Such organizations torture, maim, mutilate, and murder with impunity…
  3. …States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro. To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of…

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 6 times

  1. …the individual instance. You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela or anybody else or anyplace else, and we'll be tough on that…
  2. …that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela. The prisons of Venezuela have been opened up to our country. They've…
  3. …of dollars and—billions of dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're doing with fentanyl is a…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …that these vicious gangs have been sent by the foreign regime in Venezuela to foment violence and instability in the United States of America. Can't…

Remarks on Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …day. But today, as you know, we did something with respect to Venezuela. You heard about that. And that will be quite important. We'll be…
  2. …case, call me. Yes. That's right. If they buy their oil from Venezuela, then they have to pay a 25-percent tariff to do business…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela, released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border…

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

Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …countries. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. Sure. Well, you know, we had Venezuela on the run, and it looked like that was going to be…
  2. …Government—in the United States Government that are involved in that. And Venezuela is a little bit early. But you know, we were not buying…
  3. …gold—we have more than anybody—they started paying a fortune to Venezuela. And we're looking at that actually. Why did they do that? Why…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …whatever may be existing. Yep. No, we want to do something with Venezuela. We've been—I've been a very big opponent of Venezuela and Maduro…
  2. …lot of different people. But we're—we are for the people of Venezuela. We're for the Venezuelan Americans. If you look at it, we have…
  3. …around the Doral area. That's where—that's really— they call it "Little Venezuela," right? And they voted for me close to a hundred percent. So…

Remarks at the Starlight Ball

Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …going down by 10 and 15 and 20 percent every 6 months? Venezuela, their crime rate is down by 74.2 percent because they took…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …Stranger things have happened. Say it? Well, we're going to see on Venezuela. We're looking at Venezuela very strongly. It's a country I know very…
  2. …about that too, because we're going to probably stop buying oil from Venezuela. We don't need their oil. Well, it could be, but we don't…
  3. …oil. We have plenty of oil for ourselves, so—— That will change Venezuela quite a bit. No. No. I can't imagine even being called that…