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“Recruitment / Recruiting” said in 34 of 267 transcripts, 76 times.

Counted forms: recruitment, recruitments, recruitment's, recruiting, recruitings, recruiting's.

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Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at National Prayer Breakfast 2 times

  1. …about even. So I use both. But we have now the greatest recruiting that we've ever had. Everybody wants to be in the military. We're…
  2. …They had no spirit. And now we have had the single greatest recruitment in the history of our country. There's never been anything like it…

Remarks on the National Economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 2 times

  1. …November 5—because that's when it started. You see what's happening with recruitment in the military. The enrollment is the highest we've ever had. And…
  2. …Right now, we have the highest enrollment we've ever had. The greatest recruitment days we've ever had in the military. It's amazing. So it's November…

Remarks to United States Servicemembers With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in Yokosuko, Japan

Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 2 times

  1. …that. The spirit of our country has been soaring. After years of recruiting shortages—and we had bad ones—it was embarrassing, frankly—during my…
  2. …And I'm pleased to report that 2025 was the Navy's single best recruiting year in many generations. That's pretty good, isn't it? But you know…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …record highs, the highest we've ever had. And we used to have recruiting shortages. If you remember, about a year and a half ago, I…
  2. …the Navy, Air Force, and Space Force all met or surpassed their recruiting goals 3 months early. That never happened before. And the Army did…
  3. …more and more important. But we're now at 106 percent of our recruiting targets for the year, and that's the best in far more than…

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 6 times

  1. …despite that, we're doing really well. Yes. Please, Brian . Yes. Well, the recruitment is the most exciting thing. So, when I was campaigning for the…
  2. …recruitment numbers—General, you could speak to it better than anybody—the recruitment into the military, all branches of the military, and police, firemen, and…
  3. …now they're record-setting good. We're setting every record every month for recruitment. We're packed in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. My…

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …for—about time, right?—we're doing it for ourselves. After years of recruiting shortfalls—this is, to me, maybe the most exciting things—we're setting…
  2. …had the election of November 5, and now we have the strongest recruiting numbers in the history of our country. Can you imagine that? Can…

Commencement Address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York

May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …is soaring to the highest levels in many decades. After years of recruiting shortfalls—and we had years and years of recruiting shortfalls, and just…
  2. …just less than a year later, we just set a brandnew peacetime recruiting record, the most people joined, and we are brimming. In fact, be…
  3. …with confidence, and we're brimming with people. We had the most—best recruiting month that we've had in memory. Nobody remembers anything like it. And…

Remarks to United States Servicemembers at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar

May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …me, this is the biggest thing—our military suddenly has the best recruiting numbers that perhaps they've ever had, but certainly in 30 years. Think…
  2. …went from having the worst numbers we've ever had in terms of recruitment—that included police officers, also—firefighters, but police officers—but in the…

Remarks at a State Dinner With Amir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar in Doha, Qatar

May 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …know. It's really exciting. As you're hearing and seeing, after years of recruiting shortfalls into the military, enlistment has now reached the highest point in…
  2. …including for police and firefighters. But our military, we have the highest recruitment we've ever had. And just about a year ago, you read headlines…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …backpay. After years of missed targets, our military suddenly has the best recruiting numbers in 30 years. Every branch is setting records. No, think of…
  2. …to join the military. Right? Now we've just set a record of recruitment that's stocked. We have a waiting list of people that want to…

Remarks to the Michigan National Guard in Harrison Township, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …November, enlistment numbers for every branch of the Armed Forces have surged. Recruitment is now the highest it's been in 39 years. No, if you…
  2. …prior to November 5, which was election day, I was hearing that recruitment was so bad. It was so impossible. It was hard to get…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …that in the last 15 years, we just broke the record: Army recruitment. And they think it's going to be 25 years, but right now…
  2. …probably been reading that it's been way down in the dumps. And recruitment is the highest it's been in more than 15 years, and that's…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …We had a fantastic thing happen yesterday. The Army had the best recruitment numbers that they've had in more than 15 years. They think it…

Remarks on the Collision of a United States Army Helicopter and an American Airlines Aircraft Near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …I got to office recently, the second term. "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer 'severe intellectual' disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and…
  2. …Government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,' the FAA's website states. 'They include hearing, vision, missing extremities…

Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida

Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …that join. And one thing I'll say, if you looked at our recruitment over the last week or so, 2 weeks, it's through the roof…
  2. …a lot of people weren't signing. We were having a hard time recruiting people, because they were looking at it these people that they were…
  3. …getting tired of it." But no, they—we have, now, the best recruitment we've seen in a long time. There's tremendous number of people wanting…

Remarks at the Commander in Chief's Ball

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …years. We will replenish the pride of our Armed Forces, end the recruitment crisis. And by the way, the recruitment numbers are through the roof…
  2. …are they through—you know, you were having a little problem with recruitment. That's not good. And now the numbers are higher than they've just…
  3. …It was ridiculous. It's a big thing, actually. There's big stories that recruiting has gone really through the roof, and that's good. I want to…