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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.
“Venezuela / Colombia” said in 58 of 258 transcripts, 174 times.
…over the world, they're open up—the Congo, all over South America, Venezuela, they opened up their jails. We've got to get them out. I…
…won—if they win, that group, that ideology wins, you will be Venezuela on steroids. It's—and I've said it for years. And you know…
…have a country. And just weeks ago, at a spectacular operation in Venezuela, we brought the outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro to face American justice—in…
…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…
…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…
…youth. Everybody. You ever see a family with the fentanyl or cocaine? Colombia has at least three cocaine factories. That's a different country. We're not…
…don't want to say that. But it's not only land strikes on Venezuela, it's land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and…
…and that's what's happening. So it doesn't necessarily have to be in Venezuela. It's people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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 Venezuela. But a…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…world, they were—entered our country, from jails. The prison population of Venezuela was emptied out into our country, and that's what we're doing now…
…members, drug dealers, people—oh, jails being emptied out into our country. Venezuela emptied out its— almost its entire prison population into our country. But…
…and terrorists and people from jails. They emptied out jails. You know, Venezuela, their crime is down 72 percent because they took all the criminals…
…international, in that sense. They're a group of thugs. They come from Venezuela. They come from the prisons of Venezuela. They're very, very dangerous people…
…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…
…that during the Biden administration. They never said it during my administration. Venezuela has taken them back. They were all—Colombia has taking them back…
…five million dollars to promote biodiversity conservation and socially responsible behavior in Colombia. This is Colombia, South America, not Columbia University. Of course, that might…
…promote biodiversity conservation and licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in Colombia. Forty-million dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary…
…promote licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of Colombia. Well, that's nice. Twenty-five million going to Colombia for something that…
…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…
…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…
…country—this is what they're doing. When you allow gang members from Venezuela, but many other countries, coming into our country. We're getting them all…