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“Cocaine / Fentanyl” said in 39 of 262 transcripts, 125 times.
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Jan 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…hard on it. We've closed the southern border, seized over 47 million fentanyl pills and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. That's a record. And…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 2 times
…percent tariff added on to you"—like I did with China on fentanyl. I put a 20 percent penalty tax on China, and it's drying…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 4 times
…has to watch because, you know, he's got drug factories. They make cocaine in Colombia, and he's no friend of the United States. He's very…
…bad guy. And he's got to watch his ass, because he makes cocaine and they send it into the United States of America from Colombia…
…troublemaker, and he'd better watch it. They—he'd better close up those cocaine factories. They have at least three major cocaine factories. We know where…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 11 times
…time, we've also achieved a 50-percent drop in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, and China is working with us very closely…
…the number and the amount of fentanyl that's being shipped. You know, fentanyl is very bad when you mix it with certain ingredients, but it…
…but it will be satisfactory soon. In May, we executed the largest fentanyl bust in the history of the U.S., seizing 3 million fentanyl pills…
Dec 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Bill Signing Ceremony 3 times
…families. Forget about youth. Everybody. You ever see a family with the fentanyl or cocaine? Colombia has at least three cocaine factories. That's a different…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…Colombia is producing a lot of drugs, a lot of—they have cocaine factories that—they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell it…
…the United States. And Colombia is a major manufacturer of drugs, meaning cocaine, in particular, as you know. Thank you. I think Mike Johnson is…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 1 time
…Right? It was an invasion. Losing hundreds of thousands of people to fentanyl and to drugs. And now we have the most secure border in…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 4 times
…But they are paying right now a 20-percent tariff because of fentanyl. That's billions and billions of dollars that they're paying. We're actually—on…
…But the first question I'm going to be asking him about is fentanyl. And if you think about it, they make $100 million. Think of…
…leader over there right now, bad guy, a thug. But they make cocaine at levels that we've never seen before. And they sell it back…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 1 time
…because the son, daughter, even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in and drugs pouring in. Well, they're not coming in by…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they had—they had fentanyl, mostly, and a lot of other drugs. And we take them out…
…these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs too. And now we have a problem. General Caine…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 1 time
…believe we lost 300,000 people last year to drugs—300,000—fentanyl and other drugs. Each boat that we sink carries drugs that would…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Well, thousands of people are dying because of those boatloads of drugs—fentanyl and a lot of other drugs. We're restoring law and order to…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 2 times
…that was—like, it spattered all over the ocean, big bags of cocaine and fentanyl all over the place. And it was. Plus we have…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're doing with fentanyl is a terrible thing. It comes through Canada, and it comes through…
…a minor deal, and it turned out to be riddled out with fentanyl. The size of the head of a pin, and you're dead. And…
…like, loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs—probably fentanyl, mostly, but all sorts of drugs—and we're going to take them…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…out well. You passed the Laken Riley Act. You passed the HALT Fentanyl Act. That's big stuff. You know, we are—we are tariffing countries…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…saving a lot of money. And on Wednesday, I signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, and earlier today I signed Senator Bill Hagerty's GENIUS Act, and…
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times
…take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge as we sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law. Good job…
…very much. With this bill, we are officially and permanently classifying all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I narcotics, which is actually a very big…
…We were doing nothing. This open-borders nightmare flooded our country with fentanyl and with people that shouldn't be here—some of the worst people…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…is Sarah Stewart from Kerrville, Texas, who lost her brother to the fentanyl epidemic that has inundated her small town. Our bill provides billions and…
…taxes that we put on because they've allowed people that are selling fentanyl to go through their countries, or in the case of China, they…
May 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Man, that really got up." You know how it got? Because of fentanyl and many other things, and you added it up. I said, "Where…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…back to China just for a second. They're very heavy on the fentanyl. We're charging them, as you know, 20 percent for the fact that…
…pay, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. So the fentanyl should stop. It comes from China. It's amazing. And it comes through…
…lost friends or people that have family members that have died of fentanyl, so there's a big incentive for China to stop. And I take…
May 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…and stability in the Indo-Pacific; help stop the flood of Chinese fentanyl across our borders, which we have to do—we lost, I believe…
…the first time. We'll work something out. Well, they have to stop fentanyl from coming in. That will be a very big part. And I…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Canada and China big tariffs because of the fact that they've allowed fentanyl to come in and poison our country. They're paying a lot of…
Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…it's 145 percent. That's very high. It got there because of the fentanyl. They're sending, you know, massive amounts of fentanyl into our country and…
…were killed—somebody was killed in your family or your friends with fentanyl. And somehow, it's made almost exclusively in China. And as you know…
Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…be that high. It got up to there—we were talking about fentanyl, where, you know, various elements built it up to 145. No, it…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…to President Xi. And we also have a problem where he's allowing fentanyl to be sent into Mexico and then cross the border and, you…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…times more, but it's much higher than that. More Americans died from fentanyl last year than died in the Korean war or the Iraq war…
…Anne Fundner, who lost her beautiful 15- year-old son Weston to fentanyl. And, Anne, if you would, I'd like to ask you to come…
…a number of other American families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl, and I'd love you to just stand up for a second, and…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Kevin, thank you very much. Great job. Any questions? The large-scale fentanyl what? Oh. No, I think the labor market is going to be…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…deficits with both of them. But even more importantly, they have allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds…
…do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the U.S.A. They're going to stop it. I…
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…go into effect tomorrow. And just so you understand, vast amounts of fentanyl have poured into our country from Mexico and, as you know, also…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…all goods coming from China because of the fact that they're sending fentanyl into our country—through Mexico, by the way. I'm not happy with…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…We have very strong—our families are devastated by what's happening with fentanyl. And China will not be doing—we're going to make a deal…
…where they were going to give the maximum penalty to anybody making fentanyl and sending it into the United States, and their maximum penalty is…
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of it, and she'll stop the invasion of our country and get fentanyl off our streets. And we're going to be working with her very…
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…very much, and we've had good relationships. But we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and we have…
…forever—10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They have a big…
…speaking to China probably over the next 24 hours. We don't want fentanyl coming into our country. Now, we had another big thing. Speaking of…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…three of them. And in one case, they're sending massive amounts of fentanyl, killing hundreds of thousands of people a year with the fentanyl. And…
…too. A lot of them come through Canada, and a lot of fentanyl comes through Canada. And China makes the fentanyl. You know, China makes…
Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…our country so horribly and so much. Number two are the drugs, fentanyl and everything else, that have come into the country. And number three…
…product—and, with China, I'm also thinking about something because they're sending fentanyl into our country, and because of that, they're causing us hundreds of…
…on what it's going to be, but China has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and killing our people. I don't who said that…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…a terrible situation. Comes through the southern border. Most of it is fentanyl coming in from China. And, you know, it's very interesting, China—when…
…give their maximum punishment, which is the death penalty, to anybody making fentanyl and sending it into the United States. Then we had a very…
…if that would have happened, you would have had a lot less fentanyl deaths. I can tell you, you would have had very little fentanyl…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…China too. Look, China is sending us tremendous amounts of bad drugs: fentanyl—really bad stuff. Most of it comes through Mexico. And we're losing…
…they were going to issue the death penalty to people that make fentanyl, and that would have stopped it. But we'll have to stop it…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…000 people last year—my opinion—have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl. The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive. The fentanyl coming through Mexico…
…boy, they lose their baby, they lose their—their young daughter to fentanyl poisoning. And I had that talk with President Xi the other day…
…was all set. He was going to give the maximum penalty to fentanyl dealers. If they send to the United States, they were going to…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…very bad abuser, also vast numbers of people who come in and fentanyl to come in. I think February 1. I think—I think we'll…
…need us. Everybody needs us. What does that—define that. Because of fentanyl. That's only because of fentanyl. There are other things too. And the…