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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.

“Cartel” said in 30 of 273 transcripts, 87 times.

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Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union

Feb 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during the State of the Union?, What places will Trump mention in his State of the Union address?, Who will Trump mention during his State of the Union address? 3 times

  1. …Mexico—really large parts of Mexico—have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and I…
  2. …go fishing anymore. We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all. You saw that yesterday. In January, elite American warriors…

Remarks on Presenting the Mexican Border Defense Medal and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 4 times

  1. …before I took office, our southern border was surrendered to criminals, drug cartels, human traffickers, and child smugglers. Our entire Southwest border on the Mexican…
  2. …servicemembers, we've stopped the invasion in its tracks, and we're dismantling the cartels very rapidly. And they are being declared enemies of the United States…
  3. …border security efforts is just the beginning. We're also designating the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a big deal from a legal standpoint and…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 2 times

  1. …On day one, I signed an Executive order to designate the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Had a big—we had a big, strong…
  2. …a safe community. It's really made unbelievable progress. And we're blowing up cartel terrorists and—we're blowing them up—linked to the Maduro regime in…

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 3 times

  1. …And with the help of our warfighters, were decimating the savage drug cartels that poison our people. Two hundred thousand people, maybe more than that…
  2. …Twenty-five thousand people for each boat. For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America, and at long last, we're finally waging…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With the Homeland Security Task Force and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 26 times

  1. …recent weeks to arrest, prosecute, and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from American soil. And the people gathered around this table are the…
  2. …this year, I signed an Executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and savage transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It was my honor…
  3. …and local partners to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating the cartel presence in America once and for all. And the results are—and…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …needed focus on defeating threats in the western hemisphere. Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and…
  2. …in combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that. And we've put them—a lot…

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 3 times

  1. …economy. Joe Biden's policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners—prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration also…
  2. …did this. To protect our citizens, I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as—and you see this, and you see it happening right before…
  3. …kill hundreds of thousands of people. I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations, along with two bloodthirsty transnational gangs—probably the…

Remarks on Signing the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act and Exchange With Reporters

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so much about for so many years…
  2. …traffickers, networks, and everything else on the planet Earth, allowing foreign drug cartels to carve out a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing…
  3. …we declared an all-out war on the dealers, smugglers, traffickers, and cartels. Within moments of taking office, I deployed the U.S. military to our…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …couldn't happen. The last administration engineered a massive border invasion, allowing gangs, cartels, and terrorists to infiltrate our communities and rape and murder our citizens…
  2. …and, frankly, people from mental institutions. We've designated six murderous Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organization. We have also designated two bloodthirsty transnational gangs…
  3. …paid nothing. We got Mexico to turn over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country. And we're charging Mexico and Canada and China…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …the toughest gang, they say, in the world—and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. That's a big deal. Nobody wanted to do…
  2. …Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including the depraved kingpin charged with the 1985 murder of DEA…
  3. …smart and very vicious people. You know, some of those businesses, those cartels are run better than any business in America. They say they're run…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …designated this gang, along with MS–13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations. They are now officially in the same category…
  2. …agent were patrolling by the Rio Grande, near an area known as Cartel Island—doesn't sound too nice to me—when heavily armed gunmen started…
  3. …the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture, and exercise total control—they have total control…

Inaugural Address

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …Under the orders I sign today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of…