Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting
Jan 29, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 1 time
…to even take a chance of coming back in, even though our border is very secure, record-setting secure. We had zero illegal aliens being…
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Remarks During a Meeting With Executives of Oil and Gas Companies and an Exchange With Reporters
Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 2 times
…our country totally unchecked because of Sleepy Joe Biden's policy of open borders. The stupidest thing I've ever seen. We're getting them all out. The…
…always be protecting ICE, and we're always going to be protecting our Border Patrol and our law enforcement. Yes. Yes. They will have those guarantees…
Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on Federal Relief for Farmers and an Exchange With Reporters
Dec 8, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds roundtable meeting 1 time
…done to this country and so many, and not even mentioning the border and the criminals allowed into our country and all of the others…
Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 15 times
…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…
…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…
…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 Prior to a Meeting With Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and an Exchange With Reporters
Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 2 times
…to get away. We have—now, I think we have the strongest borders anywhere in the world. Nobody's coming in unless they come in legally…
Remarks During a Meeting With the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 and an Exchange With Reporters
Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 3 times
…all of your people. It's amazing. You know, we have a tight border right now. Nobody comes in. But we had millions of people pouring…
…corridors under major surveillance. We have nobody coming in through our southern border, but we know exactly how they get their things here, how they…
Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and an Exchange With Reporters
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 3 times
…We've done that here. We have zero people coming in now. The borders are closed. We take people, but we take them legally. But we've…
…he had any idea what was happening, because he wasn't about open borders. But we had open borders, and we had millions of people come…
Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With President Javier Milei of Argentina and an Exchange With Reporters
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 2 times
…people that come into the country illegally. And as you know, the borders now are closed, but when they hear that they get the greatest…
…all of the different things that they do that's so crazy. Open borders. I mean, the biggest—the worst thing that he did to us…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo of Finland and an Exchange With Reporters
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump's Bilateral meeting with President of Finland 1 time
…war going on—the ridiculous war going on, right? Right. So your border is closed? And that's because you have so many Russians trying to…
Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 2 times
…them back to their countries, where Biden allowed, with his stupid open borders that we had in our country, to come in. But they're being…
…know, we have all the old issues of the wall and the border and all of the things, of men playing in women's sports, who…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters
Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 12 times
…came. Mostly let out by Biden and his people that had open border—an open-border policy. And you know, Canada, you suffered because of…
…in terms of—— They—Canada suffered greatly by Biden and the open border—the policy of open border. Totally unchecked, totally unvetted. And these people…
…getting a lot of bad people. And we now have a closed border. Yes. You've done well. We have a closed border. And it's a…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters
Sep 25, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…going to just keep pouring back—right now we have absolutely perfect borders like you haven't seen in many years. Even better than the—I…
…all away. They want to—also, they want to open up the borders. Take a look at that. Big thing: They want to open borders…
The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Sep 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump-Starmer Bilateral 2 times
…wasn't giving those orders. You know, Joe Biden didn't believe in open borders. He didn't. I've known him for a long time. He was never…
…and you'll see that very much. But he didn't believe in open borders and all of this nonsense that they're peddling now, which is why…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Karol Nawrocki of Poland and an Exchange With Reporters
Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…Biden administration allowing these people to pour into our country with open borders. We are paying a big price as a country for the incompetence…
…know, they gave us things like men playing in women's sports, open borders for everybody, transgender for everybody. I mean, they wanted transgender for—all…
Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…a great job. Kristi. Well, great job. And great job on the border. We had millions and millions of people coming in. To think, 3…
…sense. I think I got elected on talking about common sense. The border, we have to have a wall. We have—we don't want transgender…
…It's stronger—of course, it's—this is the cause of it: open borders. Open borders gave us a lot of this crime. So, you know…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…and in a short period of time, it will be like the border. Nobody came in through our border for the last 90 days. Three…
…could have done this by himself. I did. I said, "Close the borders." We had the great Tom Homan. We had Kristi, as you know…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 18, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…just saying that he was a horrible President. Whether it was the borders or this, he was just a horrible, corrupt President. You want to…
…with men in women's sports and with transgender for everybody and open borders and all of the horrible things—and now the new thing is…
…country. I said for a long time at rallies everywhere—you need borders and you need free and fair elections—those two things. Otherwise, you…
Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…I won because of immigration. I think I won because of the border. I had a bad border, where millions of people were coming into…
…our country illegally. Zero. So we went from a bad, incompetently run border to the most competently run border that anybody has ever seen. I…
…anything about her. She was a horrible Vice President. She was our border czar, but she never went to the border. She never once called…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…They're sending—they continue to send people that we rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country—Venezuela. They've been very…
…just getting a little off subject, but we have now the safest border we've ever had. And I think, in many respects, we probably have…
…has a tremendous problem, and we do too. But we've sealed our borders up. We have nobody coming in, and we have hundreds of thousands…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ferdinand R. "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., of the Philippines and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 22, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…time is spent with—you know, we create—we have the strongest border anywhere in the world now. Maybe even stronger than your border, if…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…job they did for this country. And I just hope, between the border and this and so many other—inflation—what a horrible administration. The…
…I noticed—after I was out, I noticed soldiers forming at the border. And then I heard horrible, stupid things being said from the other…
…if—it's called the freewheeling autopen. Like, Biden was never for open borders. Biden was never for transgender for everyone. So I don't think he…
Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With African Leaders and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 9, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…complains about that. But when a patriot who works for ICE or Border Patrol puts a mask on so that they won't recognize him and…
…is what they say—are murderers. And they came in through open border policies, no checking, no vetting, no nothing. And we have a lot…
Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…with all of the good things in there: economic development, money—tremendous border money. Now you're loaded up on the border, and I don't think…
…by allowing people to come in here, just totally unchecked, unvetted, open borders—open borders. The whole world was dumped into our country, from prisons…
…really knows why. I mean, why would you want to have open borders and criminals pouring into our country? Why would you want to have…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…didn't know many of the things. Look, he was never for open borders. He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men…
…of the things I ran on was that. I ran on the border. We have the best border in the history of our country: 99…
…job. But nobody mentions that anymore. Remember, a few months ago, the border was a total disaster. People were coming in by the hundreds of…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and an Exchange With Reporters
May 21, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…all you have to do is take a look at the southern border. We let 21 million people come through our border totally unchecked, totally…
Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to a Meeting With Republican Members of Congress
May 20, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said: "There's nobody that could want…
…president that didn't sign anything. He autopenned almost every—he opened the borders of the United States of America. And I kept saying, "Who would…
…approved it. You take a look, he would have never approved open borders. Go ahead. Another one. Oh, yes, sure. You have a couple that…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
May 15, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…almost no inflation. So we've got the economy back. We've got a border now that's very powerful—99.9 percent—and nobody would have believed…
Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 14 times
…weren't fact. In a few short weeks, we've achieved the most secure border in American history, by far— 99.9 percent, which is a number…
…the legislature to get legislation passed in order to create a secure border. You didn't. You just had to have the right President and the…
…we have set the alltime record for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. The number of illegal border crossers released into the…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders—I'm going to get them out." And I got a lot of…
…serious criminals. I'm not saying just criminals because they came into the border illegally. I'm saying they're criminals at the highest level. Murderers. Many of…
…that, but we've done much better. We have, right now, 99-percent border. It's at 99 percent. Nobody thought that would even be—nobody's coming…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…what they did and what that party did to our country—open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said…
…I can say it. But what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It's a sin, what they…
…great. Kristi, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing, how we're—— Thank you very much. Incredible, right? The…
Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…beautiful bill. It's tax cuts, regulation cuts, and many other things—the border, a lot of money for the border, where you're doing a fantastic…
…down national debt, reducing taxes, creating good budgets, helping Kristi with the border and all of the other things. We built—I built hundreds of…
…to have hundreds of thousands of people standing there pouring through the border in Tijuana, Mexico, this weekend, they had nobody. You had a man…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border. Who would want an open border? How stupid is that? But he…
…the jails emptied out right into our country, right along the open border on the—on Mexico—generally, the Mexico—open. They came in from…
…too, by the way, a lot, but generally speaking, on the southern border. And what a shame it is that we are now working very…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and Meeting With United States Ambassadorial Nominees and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…Thank you. Thank you very much. That man knows more about the border than anybody, let me tell you. Thank you. Yes, thanks, Brandon. Good…
…Trump has done a lot. I agree. He's been great on the border. He's been great on the military. But you know, he hasn't brought…
Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…little bit about what's happening and how well we've done at the border. That's great. Good job. Yesterday—there was a plaza that you know…
…country. Yesterday I was speaking to somebody—I was checking on the border, and they said there was literally nobody in this massive plaza. You…
…person. This is the people they were letting in through their open border policy. It was terrible. But I want to just congratulate you and…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…did to this country, letting 21 million people flow through an open border—many of those people were hard criminals from prisons and jails, from…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…members, gang leaders, drug dealers pouring into our country with the open borders. I am so angry at the last 4 years, at what they've…
Remarks in a Question-and-Answer Session at a Business Roundtable Quarterly Meeting
Mar 11, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…was very unfair. They'd build in Mexico and sell them across the border with no tax, no nothing. They'd take away our jobs. They'd close…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…incredible—and Kristi. They've done a great job in terms of the border. But the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of…
…comes through Canada. And as Mexico gets stronger, in terms of the border, it goes up to Canada, and a lot of drugs are coming…
…have never been here, that the Biden administration, with their stupid open borders, should have never allowed. They came in from prisons and jails and…
Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…Thank you very much. Great job. In just over 1 month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before…
…I got elected based on taxes and based on many things, the border, but also based on balancing budgets and getting our country back into…
…look at that very strongly. But we're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE. The ICE agents have been unbelievable. Border Patrol— their…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a National Governors Association Meeting
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…all over the world be allowed to empty jails into an open border. They opened—they—emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum—gang…
…disaster that we inherited. And we inherited a lot of them, the border being, I think— actually, I think it's the most difficult one of…
…So, on day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country, because we were being invaded…
Remarks at a Republican Governors Association Meeting
Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…in there, and then you just go. Because there's no way—open borders with prisoners coming in. Jails. The worst—some of the worst murderers…
…go and say, "I think it's a brilliant idea to have open borders, to allow prisons and mental institution people to pour in from all…
…accomplishment. On day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border. I sent our military to the border to secure the sovereign territory…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 4, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…mean, I've been saying that with Mexico, having to do with the border and— and all of the things, and you saw what happened—10…