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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.

“Electricity” said in 43 of 275 transcripts, 117 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? 5 times

  1. …no one's prices will go up. And, in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community—and very substantially down. This is…
  2. …grid. It could never handle the kind of numbers—the amount of electricity that's needed. So I'm telling them they can build their own plant…
  3. …produce their own electricity. It will ensure the companies' ability to get electricity while at the same time lowering prices of electricity for you, and…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 5 times

  1. …on America. They tried very hard. Germany now generates 22-percent less electricity than it did in 2017. And it's not the current Chancellor's fault…
  2. …before he got there—I guess that's why he got there. And electricity prices are 64-percent higher. The United Kingdom produces just one-third…
  3. …sources in the world, and they don't use it. In fact, their electricity prices have soared 139 percent. There are windmills all over Europe. There…

Remarks to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan

Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 5 times

  1. …own electric plants, because people were saying—you know, the amount of electricity they need is—they need twice as much as electricity currently in…
  2. …big electric plants to take care of their plant. And any excess electricity, they'll sell it back to our country. It's an unbelievable—therefore, we're…
  3. …great respect for China, but you hear they're building a lot of electricity. But we are too. But we're having it built privately. They're going…

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 2 times

  1. …drastically drove up prices, and they drove them up at record levels. Electricity costs surged 30 to 100 percent under Biden, and the typical family…
  2. …I would say by anybody, or certainly not very soon. Prices on electricity and everything else will fall dramatically. The Democrat inflation disaster—again, the…

Remarks at a Christmas Reception

Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …we're leading in AI by a lot. And the big problem was electricity. But I allow our plants—in other words, all of these geniuses…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 4 times

  1. …is 200 years old. "We need more electric grid. It's old." The electricity that the AI plants need alone is double the entire electricity that…
  2. …To them, an electric plant is better than the people that produce electricity. Although Florida Power and Light is doing a lot of plants for…
  3. …and it's unbelievable. And then they're going to sell electric—their excess electricity back into the grid, so we benefit in that way too. In…

Remarks at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEOs Luncheon in Gyeongju, South Korea

Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 6 times

  1. …of, because I thought of it—like every, you know, country, our electricity production, our energy production is not—you know, it's not—nobody ever…
  2. …revolution with the AI. And what they need more than anything is electricity. So, if a country was able to do that, it would be…
  3. …never been anything like it. But I let them build their own electricity-generating plants with it. So they're building their own electric. They're sort…

Remarks at a Dinner With Business Leaders in Tokyo, Japan

Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 3 times

  1. …I did that's really helping AI, because of the massive amount of electricity that they need, is I said, "You build your own power plant…
  2. …you know, doubling—you have to double or triple the amount of electricity that we current have. As an example, in the United States, you…
  3. …with information. And—but somebody that really does understand the generation of electricity. The kind of plants that are being built are unbelievable. They're far…

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. …going up for $50 billion; they're going to be building their own electricity. And many of them have been given permits already to go and…
  2. …handle the kind of numbers that you're talking about in terms of electricity. And we're letting them build their own plants. They build their own…
  3. …New York, that I grew up with, and like others that make electricity, they make it for New York, these plants will make it for…

Remarks to Federal Law Enforcement Officers and National Guard Personnel

Aug 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …me. It's very hot. It's big. But they need massive amounts of electricity. They need more electricity than we have right now in the whole…
  2. …I'm going to let you build electric plants to fire your own electricity, and anything that you have left over, you sell it back into…

Remarks on Domestic Investment by Apple Incorporated and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …the biggest things we've done: where you can build, Tim, your own electricity. You become your own electric manufacturer, and that goes along with the…
  2. …okay. You're going to make—you're going to be making your own electricity. And as you probably know, for much of this and much of…
  3. …that we're doing, especially the AI, they would need actually double the electricity that the country now produces for everything. So it's massive electric, and…

Remarks on Signing Legislation Regarding Congressional Disapproval of Environmental Protection Agency Rules Relating to Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards in California and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …tremendous—especially the AI—they have to produce beyond believable amounts of electricity. And they're doing—I said to them—I think this was more…
  2. …going to build it. You're going to build a plant that produces electricity. And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear." They're—we don't…
  3. …And in California, they have blackouts and brownouts. They don't have—enough electricity right now to do the job. And countrywide, you'd have to spend…

Remarks on Domestic Business Investment

Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …I learned a lot. Number one, I learned we need double the electricity that we have right now for the whole country. And, really, more…
  2. …two times would be even better. It was like unlimited thirst for electricity. And at first, I said, "You know, how's that possible?" But that's…
  3. …to be a big help, because you can have unlimited energy, unlimited electricity, and I think it's going to really—we want to stay number…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …leading China by a lot, by tremendous amounts. We're going to supply electricity at levels never supplied before. They're going to build their own electric…
  2. …to build their own electric plants. We have to double up our electricity to be—to remain number one in AI, we're going to have…
  3. …take our whole country—we're going to have to double up our electricity—think of that—and probably even triple it up. And we're going…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …some power stations in the Midwest. They look like gas pumps with electricity, right? They spent $8 billion, and four of the nine of them…
  2. …in our country now. You know, it—it does give us our electricity, because there's nothing like coal in terms of power, but it's going…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …technology that's coming online, we need more than double the energy, the electricity that we currently have. You take all of the electricity in the…
  2. …going to be producing a lot of energy and a lot of electricity for this, and so are we. And we're going to get approvals…
  3. …coal-fired power plants are always available to meet surging demand for electricity. Unlike wind and solar, coal plants can run 24 hours a day…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …Dam, and the towering Golden Gate Bridge. They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida

Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …is, to do it, just in our country, you need twice the electricity just to open up and be the top of AI. You need…
  2. …right now. In the entire country, if you take all of the electricity, you need more than twice. You need twice. You need double what…
  3. …essentially, you become a utility, in a way. You build your own electricity. If you want to build extra and put it out and get…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …dominant like nobody else. And this doesn't even discuss all of the electricity that we're going to be producing for all of the AI plants…
  2. …least, that we have right now. So you take all of our electricity that we have all over the country just for AI, to do…
  3. …But if you take all of it, we have to double our electricity needs just for the AI, and that doesn't include the other technologies…

Inaugural Address

Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe…