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“Border” said in 135 of 252 transcripts, 716 times.
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Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 4 times
…sport. You could be a genius. Try selling transgender for everybody. Open borders—let the world come in. Let the world's prison population come into…
…nobody thought was possible. So, today, after less than 1 year, our border is secure. Remember, they talked about the border, how bad. In 3…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 12 times
…about it openly. But they have the worst policy on everything—open borders. "We want open borders." You know, they still want an open border…
…Ross—he's the greatest—speechwriter. He said: "Sir, let's not mention the border. Nobody cares about the border anymore." Can you believe it? This was…
…biggest thing there was. He says to me, "Nobody cares about the border because it has a shelf life." I fixed the border. I fixed…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 4 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 9 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…as you know, millions of people pour into our country from the border, and—not anymore, they don't. Nobody comes in, actually, anymore. But under…
Dec 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…about that. I'll be talking about the fact that we secured the border where literally nobody can come into our country illegally anymore. They came…
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 8 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 27 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…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…
Dec 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Bill Signing Ceremony 2 times
…So I just want to say this: We have now a strong border. A year and a half ago, we had millions of people pouring…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Congressional Ball 1 time
…a couple of your little policies—like men in women's sports, open borders, transgender for everybody—but other than that— —other than that, I like…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 1 time
…not good at creating. They're only good at obstructing and wanting open borders and men and women's sports and transgender—all things are transgender for…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 27 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 2 times
…it to this extent. Nobody knew we were going to have a border where in 6 months, not one person came into our country illegally…
Dec 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: National Christmas Tree Lighting 3 times
…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…
…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…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 3 times
…pour into our country, and he was right. He didn't like open borders. He didn't—he—was on the border. You know, he represents—very…
Nov 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Presidential Turkey Pardon 4 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 1 time
…He was incompetent. They're all incompetent, because their policies are incompetent—open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. I mean, they got…
Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 2 times
…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…
…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…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 2 times
…over the place. No, I'd like to clean up the elections. The border, we've done a great job. We have a great, strong border now…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 10 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 4 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 6 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 9 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Kuala Lumpur. Earlier this year, an armed clash broke out along the border of these two countries—really, ancient countries by most standards; they've been…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 12 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Diwali Celebration 2 times
…rates are too high, we're—we—the economy has been amazing. Our border is secure. Totally secure. We had nobody—zero—nobody in the last…
…policy. I guess they like me, but they like my policies: strong borders, good education, low taxes. You know, in the "Great Big Beautiful Bill…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 2 times
…1,700 career criminals and people that came in through an open border. They came in through Biden's open border, and we've taken them out…
Oct 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 1 time
…less than $1 trillion. And in addition to that, he had open borders, allowing millions of people to pour in. What an administration that was…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times
…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…
…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…
Oct 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Medal of Freedom Ceremony for Charlie Kirk 4 times
…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…
…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…
…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…
Oct 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Roundtable on ANTIFA 3 times
…don't have—and you need great media. You need great—you need borders—— ——you need borders—you need—wait, wait, wait. You need borders, you…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…already poured, because nobody's coming into our country now. We have the border totally stopped. In fact, numbers we just announced again—we're at another…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 1 time
…We don't want transgender for everybody. We don't want to have open borders where millions of people come into our country—from jails, from prisons…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we didn't want, and they'd be Democrat things. But they want open borders. They want men playing in women's sports. They want transgender for everybody…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…And no country can afford that. No country. And we have the border stopped up. We have it closed. We had nobody for 4 months…
…have a big fight over that. We have a fight over open borders. They still want open borders. We're having a fight over men in…
…right now. I mean, can you imagine we're actually talking about open borders? And we now have a great border, and we have a great…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. We didn't have people coming in from…
…want the credit for 46. I don't want to have their open borders and people coming in from all over the world, including jails and…
…because people aren't believing it. We need an honest press. We need borders. We need borders, we need an honest press, we need fair elections…
Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…crazed. They don't know what they're doing. They want to have the border opened up so that criminals can pour in. You know, we're doing…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 15 times
…country even close. America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any…
…The numbers far surpass my record-setting first term. On our southern border, we have successfully repelled a colossal invasion. And for the last 4…
…they came. They just poured into our country with the ridiculous open-border policy of the Biden administration. Our message is very simple: If you…
Sep 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Charlie Kirk Memorial 1 time
…did. And we have to bring back religion to America, because without borders, law and order, and religion, you really don't have a country anymore…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Governor. "Do you know, sir, you won every single area on the border of Texas? All Hispanic. Eighty-eight percent, 92 percent. All these towns…
…that. But we stopped the flood of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders, and for 4 months in a row, the numbers of illegals admitted…
…a year, 2 years, there was millions of people coming across our border from mental institutions, from prisons—drug dealers, gangs—the toughest gangs anywhere…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…they want to shut down the country. They want to have open borders. They want to stop the fighting of crime, where we've been very…
…think these people are crazy. You know, again, anybody who wants open borders and don't want to fight—they don't want to fight crime. They…
…nobody is coming in because we've succeeded in closing—we've closed the border very successfully. I think you will agree. We had nobody come in…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of the things we're doing, which I'm very proud of, is the border. We now have a totally closed border, totally secure. For 3 months…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 5 times
…person was killed. Now you're not seeing it all. It's like the border. Millions of people—a year ago, millions of people poured into our…
…months, there have been zero, as reported by, largely, Democrats, actually. The border is secure. The country is secure. We've got the hottest country anywhere…
…doing, where they're throwing bricks at cars of the—of ICE and Border Patrol. And they come in a beautiful new car. They're so proud…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Okay? What's that all about? Men playing in women's sports. Wants open borders. Again, wants—they want, actually—after what we've gone through, with millions…
…they poured in. Now we have none coming in. We have—the border has been sealed for a long time—actually, almost since I got…
…We need legislation"? I didn't have any legislation. I said, "Close the borders," and now the borders—for the last 4 months, not one person…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…Okay? He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things—he was never for open borders. I've…
…was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country…
…ships out on sea. You know, we have nobody coming through our border anymore. Nobody. How—doesn't that feel good, to know that you don't…
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…now we have total safety. We have total security. And for the border, in 3 months, zero people. These are done by liberal people that…
…hundreds of miles of wall. I built the same wall that the Border Patrol asked me to build. It wasn't my first choice. I wanted…
…you wouldn't have been able to see through it. So I had Border Patrol in, and they tested everything else. And we gave them steel…
Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…in DC. They feel so safe already. And you know, at the border, we had—Frank, we had zero people come in. And this is…
…I need"—I had no legislation. I just said, "We're closing the borders." And the whole world understood it, because they respect your country again…
…does what we tell them to do. Because we had the two borders. We had the northern border, southern border. And they were both horrible…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…afraid anymore. And we'll—this will get—this will be like the border. We started off with millions and millions of people coming in from…
…going to have this in good shape. And don't forget, in the border, everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back…
…I never went to Congress for anything. I just said, "Close the border," and they closed the border. And that was the end of it…