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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 14 times

  1. …shift production to America. They are so in love with it. They build a plant. They're able to deduct it immediately—the whole thing, rather…
  2. …part, because I've allowed these big companies, building these massive buildings to build their own electric capacity. They're building their own power plants, which, when…
  3. …a lot of money. Let's see what you can do. You can build your own electric-generating plants." And they looked at me, they didn't…

Remarks to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan

Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 9 times

  1. …keeping the foreign autoworkers—now, if they want to come in and build a plant and hire you and hire your friends and your neighbors…
  2. …know, we're leading China in AI by a lot. I'm letting them build their own electric plants, because people were saying—you know, the amount…
  3. …We can't do that." And then I had the idea. When they build these $50 billion plants, I'm going to let them build—and I've…

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 13 times

  1. …large—the largest we've ever built—battleships. You know, you used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others. We had…
  2. …that are running those yards, taking over the yards. We used to build a ship a day during World War II. Now we don't do…
  3. …only way they're going to be able to do that is to build new plants. Even with the F–35—we have many people want…

Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Prescription Drug Prices

Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …going to have security. Collectively, they will invest over $150 billion to build up domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing in America. They're going to be—because of…

Remarks at a Hanukkah Reception

Dec 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Hanukkah Reception 4 times

  1. …We're donating a $400 million ballroom, and we got sued not to build it. For 150 years, they've wanted a ballroom, and we're giving them…
  2. …3 over, the press will say, "It cost more." I built—I build under budget and ahead of schedule. Right, Jason? Always. I know how…

Remarks at a Christmas Reception

Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …so in order not to pay tariffs, they come in and they build their plant in the United States. It's pretty simple. And it's been…
  2. …It's been waiting for hundreds of years, and they were going to build on it a couple of times. It never happened. But it's a…
  3. …building a $60 billion—billion—$60 billion plant, I allow them to build their own electric capacity as part of the plant, and that solved…

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion With Business Leaders and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …safe, reliable nuclear power. And I'm giving them approval to, when they build these massive plants that cost $50 billion—you know, it used to…
  2. …build a nice little shopping center, but for $500 million you could build one of the biggest, most beautiful centers. And now they're talking about…
  3. …structure. So including even structure. So that if Michael goes out and builds a factory, you can take it against tax immediately, the whole thing…

Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner

Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 3 times

  1. …have it in a building, you pretty much never have it. They rebuild it. They spend millions and millions of dollars. They take it apart…
  2. …Bill," but one of the things we have is we're going to rebuild our city, Washington, DC. We now have one of the safest cities…
  3. …it. Then the—like 6,000 seats, and then they're going to build it for the fight. They're going to have the greatest champions of…

Remarks on Fuel Efficiency Standards and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 6 times

  1. …and lots of other things. It would have cost $5 trillion to build the charging plants. And, as you know, in certain parts of the…
  2. …actually making the car much worse. But these policies forced automakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs, drove up prices, and…
  3. …country?" And everyone seems to think good, but you're not allowed to build them. And I've authorized the Secretary to immediately approve the production of…

Remarks at the United States-Saudi Investment Forum

Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 17 times

  1. …selling Saudi Arabia some of the greatest military equipment ever built—we build the best military equipment in the world, by far; that's why we…
  2. …I'm allowing all of those AI plants that are being built to build their own electric generating force. And they're building them like nobody's ever…
  3. …happen?" They're building a plant for $50 billion. You know, if you build a shopping center for $50 million, it's okay. It's not a bad…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 4 times

  1. …this was my idea, so I'm very proud of it. I said, "Build your own electric." People would come, "We need more electric grid, sir…
  2. …Here's what we're going to do. We're going to let these geniuses build their own electric generation." So they are going to—they are building…
  3. …unlimited money, but they were trying to figure out how they can build it, because they had no electric of—of any consequence. And I…

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 12 times

  1. …spend—they are going to spend $10 billion, and they're going to build new car plants. And they're going to build them in numerous States…
  2. …lot of things, but if you spend $250-, $300 million, you can build them. Big shopping centers. These people are spending $50 billion to build…
  3. …could say impossible. So I came up with a concept. When they build a massive plant, sometimes the size of Manhattan. Think of that: the…

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. …Washington Post and from the New York Times saying, "You've got to build that ballroom." I almost—I couldn't believe it when that happened. Look…
  2. …the massive amount of electricity that they need, is I said, "You build your own power plant, if you'd like." So far, everybody said, "We…
  3. …the idea that you're building a plant, they're spending $50 billion to build a plant. I said, "You can build your own electric generating sources…

Remarks at a White House Diwali Celebration and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Diwali Celebration 5 times

  1. …didn't happen. I think, much more importantly, we have tariffs that—you build in the United States, you don't have a tariff to pay. You…
  2. …name. And they're stuck. And he wanted only women and DEI to build it. Right? That's what they got. And the construction workers are standing…
  3. …And in order not to pay the tariff, they come, and they build here. That's why we have more plants under construction than we've ever…

Remarks at a Lunch With Republican Senators

Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 3 times

  1. …percent, or 2-percent tariff, they say, "Well, it's better if I build my plant in the United States." It always amazed me, for—you…
  2. …now, 52 power stations. But I did something better. I'm letting everybody build their own power plant, so they'll become like an electric utility in…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 10 times

  1. …said that if I pull it off again, we are going to build a ballroom, and I'm going to start right at the beginning. And…
  2. …But they said, "We're going to get it done anyway." So you build what's called the reverse bathtub. And it's not that uncommon, but it…
  3. …having a war, I think they have a good reason not to build again. You know, they were building the Washington Monument, and they stopped…

Remarks at the Middle East Peace Summit With Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, President Abdelfattah Said Elsisi of Egypt, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Middle East Peace Ceremony 3 times

  1. …hardest part, because the rest comes together. We all know how to rebuild, and we know how to build better than anybody in the world…
  2. …for an entire beautiful Middle East. From this moment forward, we can build a region that's strong and stable and prosperous and united in rejecting…

Remarks to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel

Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 8 times

  1. …mission to permanently disarm Hizballah's terror brigades—he's doing very well—and build a thriving state at peace with its neighbors. And you're very much…
  2. …world gathered in Saudi Arabia and said that it was time to build a future free of the grip of extremism and terror. And I'm…
  3. …a hope that we can dream about. It's a reality we can build upon, day by day, person by person, and nation by nation. And…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 4 times

  1. …tariffs. Because you have to understand, he has no tariffs. If you build in this country, there are no tariffs. So—— No, I haven't canceled…
  2. …there are very few of them left—but when a store owner rebuilds a store, they build it out of plywood, and they don't put…
  3. …job. It's an honor to have you. I assume you're going to build—so it's $4-, $4.5 billion for a plant. That's a pretty…

Remarks on Signing a Decision Statement on the 2025 Ambler Road Project Appeal and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …part of our country by doing this long, very difficult road to build. And we'll be talking about that sometime later, but it's been—it's…
  2. …me know. Steve . Go ahead. And also two bridges. We're going to build two bridges that we'll be able to complete. And we'll get them…
  3. …And you know, we created tremendous value by creating a road. We build a road that only we can do because we have the rights…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …much more than that as we go along, because we basically don't build ships anymore. We do build submarines, but we don't build ships. Do…
  2. …a granite mountain. I think it's the last time they're going to build air chutes. They had these air chutes that were nice, beautiful. They…
  3. …know everything about everybody. It will also help the United States rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base. Each of you can play an important part…

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 5 times

  1. …May, I traveled to the Middle East to visit my friends and rebuild our partnerships in the Gulf, and those valued relationships with Saudi Arabia…
  2. …concepts were so wrong, and the product that they were proposing to build was so bad and so costly, it was going to cost them…
  3. …built in China, and I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but they have very few wind farms. So why is it…

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 13 times

  1. …the equivalent of, you know, many, many billions of dollars. You couldn't build it. The longest runways. The most powerful runways, in terms of load…
  2. …that you're talking about in terms of electricity. And we're letting them build their own plants. They build their own plants with their structures. So…
  3. …have the right to do that also. So we're allowing companies to build electric plants. They become—essentially, Scott, I guess they become utilities—right…

Remarks on the Relocation of U.S. Space Command Headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …there's—I think nobody knows more about construction than me. You can build the construction doors. You can build the—what they call "safety doors…
  2. …from Canada. But they're coming into our country because they want to build here. And they want to build here for two reasons. Number one…
  3. …them. And number three, they want to avoid paying tariffs. When they build their cars here, they don't have any tariffs to pay. You know…

Remarks Announcing the 2026 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Draw Location and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …I built the same wall that the Border Patrol asked me to build. It wasn't my first choice. I wanted to do concrete plank and…
  2. …Within 20 days, every single permit was there for the people to build their houses. But people are writing us, and they're saying, "They won't…
  3. …he doesn't get the job done. And frankly, those people want to build their houses. It's terrible. They could have been built. Some of them…

Remarks to Federal Law Enforcement Officers and National Guard Personnel

Aug 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …Lee Zeldin has done a fantastic job. We're giving the right to build electric plants—they become almost like a public utility—because we have…
  2. …big plants, but they're building electric plants with it. I said, "You build your building"— and these are buildings that cost $30-, $40-, $50 billion…
  3. …that's inside, all the technology. I said, "I'm going to let you build electric plants to fire your own electricity, and anything that you have…

Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …hard ones, and they were given a long time ago. People can't rebuild their house because they can't get permits from the State and the…
  2. …streets, and I met a lot of great people that want to rebuild their homes. We took care of it, from the Federal standpoint. But…
  3. …the mayor and the Governor. They're not getting their permits. They can't build their houses. Go ahead, please. No, I don't think it's a reward…

Remarks Announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …successful if you're going to pick a movie actor with a bad build. Okay? A nice face, but a bad body. And he said, "I…
  2. …with the help of Congress, we secured the critical funding necessary to rebuild the building and to—we're going to get all brandnew, highest level…
  3. …can't get the houses—they can't get the people their permits to build their houses. They're trying to rebuild the houses from the ridiculous fire…

Remarks on Domestic Investment by Apple Incorporated and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …increase spending on its domestic supply chain for the iPhone and will build the largest and most sophisticated smart glass production line in the world…
  2. …With the mass infusion of capital it's announcing today, Apple will also build a 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility in Houston and invest…
  3. …Apple will also open other facilities: rare earth magnets from Texas, and build—oh, I love that you're doing this. I love that. I love…

Remarks on Health Technology Improvement Efforts

Jul 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …them approval, and Lee Zeldin has given them very fast approval to build their own electric powering plants, and they'll build them with the factory…