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.
“Nuclear” said in 96 of 287 transcripts, 413 times.
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Mar 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…will say. We're knocking them for a loop. They can't have a nuclear weapon, and they now understand that very strongly. But we have a…
…had to do something about very bad people that want to have nuclear weapons. We can't allow that. They would have had it. If we…
Mar 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…and you have to do that. We can't let them have a nuclear weapon. They were 2 weeks away, in my opinion—two weeks away…
…8 months ago, they would have had—they would have had a nuclear weapon, and there would have been no talking to them. No talking…
…excursion, if you don't mind—a little excursion to take care of nuclear weaponry in the hands of maniacs. But other than that—in a…
Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 20 times
…the middle of the head. They're violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And sometimes I'll have some of the…
…are violent?" "Yes, the leadership." "Do you think they should have a nuclear weapon, which is massive power?" I don't even want to discuss how…
…that, frankly, are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you, because they would use it within…
Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…did, as well as Operation Midnight Hammer, where we totally obliterated Iran's nuclear potential. We obliterated it. They don't have nuclear potential. And then during…
…that's your enemy. How stupid was that? But that deal, the Iran nuclear deal, gave them the right to have a nuclear weapon, as of…
…very quickly. If I didn't terminate that deal, they would have had nuclear weapons, and this world would, right now, be a different place. Much…
Mar 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…was pretty good too, right? That was where we knocked out their nuclear potential. That was a big day, because if we didn't do that…
…attack, Israel would have been wiped out. They would have had a nuclear weapon within 2 weeks after that. And even now, I think they…
…all of the Middle East and Israel. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on Israel. And this was going…
Mar 7, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to the Shield of Americas Summit 2 times
…And this had to be done. They were very close to a nuclear weapon. They would've had one if we didn't do our B–2…
…Hammer. They would've had it 8 months ago. They would've had a nuclear weapon. And, you know, they're crazy, and they would've used it. So…
Mar 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Saving College Sports Roundtable 1 time
…with the B–2 bombers before this, where they took out the nuclear capability or potential of Iran. I think our—I think we're, right…
Mar 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Tech Roundtable 9 times
…the worst deal—one of the worst deals ever made: the Obama nuclear deal—I call it the "Obama nuclear deal," where he gave everything…
…obliterate," because it really was. It was a complete obliteration of their nuclear potential, and that set them back very, very seriously. If we didn't…
…B–2 attack a number of months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon. And when crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen. So…
Mar 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Medal of Honor Ceremony 10 times
…to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer a short while ago, we warned Iran…
…but they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly…
…The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them…
Feb 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Corpus Christi 1 time
…you know, with those beautiful B–2 bombers recently. Knocked out their nuclear capability. But I'd rather do it the peaceful way, but they're very…
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? 6 times
…sick people. Cambodia and Thailand; Pakistan and India—would have been a nuclear war—35 million people, said the Prime Minister of Pakistan, would have…
…in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation Midnight…
…policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Many decades. Since they seized control of that proud nation 47…
Feb 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to Fort Bragg Military Families 2 times
…Appreciate it. And last summer, I ordered devastating strikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities in something that was called Operation Midnight Hammer. That's exactly what…
…But that was Operation Midnight Hammer, achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability. Totally obliterated. And think: Every single one of those hundred…
Jan 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…use them. Okay? Well, I told them two things. Number one, no nuclear. And number two, stop killing protesters. They're killing them by the thousands…
Jan 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Iowa 2 times
…trillion we're spending on the military. And in June, we obliterated Iran's nuclear capacity in Operation Midnight Hammer. You saw that. People have been waiting…
…at the end. They were about a month away from having a nuclear weapon. We had to do it. And just—and by the way…
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 12 times
…those numbers I've signed an order directing an approval of many new nuclear reactors. We're going heavy into nuclear. I was not a big fan…
…the danger, but they have so—what—the progress they've made with nuclear is unbelievable. And the safety progress they've made is incredible. We're very…
…you're going to have your approvals within 2 weeks." I always say nuclear will—nuclear will take 3 weeks. But most aren't going that. They're…
Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in Southern Boulevard Dedication Ceremony 2 times
…going to be possible. We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting—two nuclear nations. They say many millions of people. The Pakistani Prime Minister said…
…And it was amazing, and it's an honor. And we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer. That was another operation that was…
Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Health Roundtable 1 time
…precision just like a Venezuela; just like the attack on the Iran nuclear weapons, which wiped that out; just like all of the other things…
Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 2 times
…did al-Baghdadi flawless. We did Soleimani flawless. We did the Iran nuclear attack where we wiped out their nuclear capacity, which would have been…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 2 times
…will be on the battleships that we're building. They'll also carry the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles currently under development, which will be instituted…
…32 years, and we stopped—think of it. We stopped a potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India. And the head of Pakistan, a highly…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 1 time
…the world. I settled eight wars in 10 months; destroyed the Iran nuclear threat; ended the war in Gaza; and got the release of hostages…
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 1 time
…restored American strength; settled eight wars in 10 months; destroyed the Iran nuclear threat; and ended the war in Gaza—bringing, for the first time…
Dec 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Hanukkah Reception 5 times
…did—the best job of all, is we knocked out the Iran nuclear power. And they would have had that in—within a month, I…
…ditched the entire world for Iran. That's why they signed the Iran nuclear deal that I terminated immediately. It was the worst deal. And Bibi…
…putting them in jails. We're deporting them. I terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. And this summer, we obliterated Iran's nuclear program like nobody has…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 2 times
…we wiped out—the B–2 bomber—we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat, and because of that, we were able to make peace in…
…They got knocked to hell. But if we didn't knock out their nuclear capability, we would have never had peace in the Middle East, because…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 10 times
…if we could stop that. I've—— I've spoken to—— I'm talking about nuclear weapons. I've spoken to China about that. I've spoken to Russia about…
…because it's been confirmed by the Atomic Energy Commission—we obliterated their nuclear capability, their potential. And their nuclear capability would have been there in…
…very short period of time. They were very close to having massive nuclear weapons. And these guys went in and they did a job, and…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and natural gas and oil—to clean, beautiful coal and safe, reliable nuclear power. And I'm giving them approval to, when they build these massive…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 3 times
…clean, beautiful coal, and we brought it back into vogue. We have nuclear. We have oil and gas. We have sort of everything. We don't…
…He did a hell of a job in knocking out the Iran nuclear capability. We knocked out the Iran nuclear capability. Now compare that to…
Nov 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Presidential Turkey Pardon 1 time
…McMahon, Scott Turner; Administrator Lee Zeldin, who's done a great job. A nuclear power plant gets approved in less than a week. Okay? I'm only…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 8 times
…dark cloud away from your country. It was called Iran and its nuclear capability, and we obliterated that very quickly and strongly and powerfully. But…
…what happens. This week, our countries also signed groundbreaking agreements on civil nuclear energy, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence. And I want to congratulate a…
…it's oil and gas, get them approved in two weeks. If it's nuclear, add another week." Because some are going nuclear, and they're doing very…
Nov 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Arabia for dinner 2 times
…have said that. This week, we're also signing exciting agreements on civil nuclear energy, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence, numbers that nobody has ever heard…
…our beautiful B–2 bombers going in and obliterating a very serious nuclear threat, which would have taken place in about a month from that…
Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 3 times
…it. And you saw that with the way we took out the nuclear capability of Iran, with those gorgeous B–2 bombers. They flew in…
…it this way: They got hit. And it totally took out the nuclear capability. And I said to these guys when they came into the…
…and it—I mean, it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability, and all of the Middle East became a different place. And…
Nov 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Veterans Day address 2 times
…thank you. He's a real general. And congratulations on wiping out the nuclear capability of Iran in about a matter of seconds, once they got…
…what a job they did—that, in an instant, completely obliterated Iran's nuclear capability of which we have just ordered, I have say, many more…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts dinner with Central Asian Countries 4 times
…because of the status of Iran. When Iran had a possibility of nuclear weapons, which they do not have now; when Iran was the bully…
…Now that Iran has been very much decimated in terms of their nuclear and in terms of their regular, because of the actions we took…
…in China. And my doctrine would be denuclearization, because we have enough nuclear. We're number one, Russia is number two, China is number three—way…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 1 time
…a look at India and Pakistan, they started to fight. They're two nuclear nations. They were shooting each other. Eight planes were shot down. There…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 6 times
…the most expensive electric plants you've ever seen—generating plants. Some buy nuclear, some buy oil and gas, some buy coal as a substitute. They're…
…coming aboard. You know, the key was when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. All of a sudden, everybody said, "Wow, that was…
…the best missiles, the best rockets, the best everything. We redid our nuclear. We're the number-one nuclear power, which I hate to admit, because…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 4 times
…agreements also include deepening collaboration of industries of the future, such as nuclear, quantum, artificial intelligence—where America is number one by a lot, actually…
…I'll tell you what we have a long lead on is submarines—nuclear submarines. We are so far advanced that by perhaps 20, 25 years…
…really starting to go. And it's a big thing. These are two nuclear nations, and they're really going at it. And I called Prime Minister…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 10 times
…planes were shot down, and they were going at it, two big nuclear powers. And I said to Prime Minister Modi and I said to…
…said: "Yes, it does. A lot to do with the other." Two nuclear powers. We get that nuclear dust all over the place, all of…
…been built before. They're using all different types of fuel. They're using nuclear. They're using oil and gas. They're using coal as a backup. Coal…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 4 times
…missile destroyers—never saw anything like it—to the spectacular sight of nuclear submarines all over the place to the unstoppable force of another great…
…they said, "Well, guess we're not going to go to war." Two nuclear powers. We stopped it. But we stopped a lot of wars. Tariffs…
…those B–2 bombers? They went in there. They took out that nuclear capability. They would have had—Iran would have had a nuclear weapon…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 4 times
…solely on trade and tariffs. India, Pakistan were going at it—two nuclear powers, and serious nuclear—seven planes shot down. They were ready to…
…to do with the other?" I said: "It has a lot. You're nuclear powers, and if you do it, we're not doing a trade deal…
…do it." We stopped a war. We stopped a potential disaster—a nuclear disaster because of trade. And it's been really amazing. But the tariffs…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times
…I'm not going to be a party to it." You have two nuclear nations, by the way. "No, no, no, you can't do that." I…
…they stopped. They stopped, just like that. This could have been a nuclear war. Probably would have been. In fact, the Prime Minister of Pakistan…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 11 times
…They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this earth. And with Operation…
…love being on television." So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. And that's been confirmed…
…making the deal that we have now—right?—if Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from having. They would…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 1 time
…And they were both great. They stopped fighting, and they were two nuclear powers. So, you know, they're all big. They're—every one of them…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…were shot down. They were ready to go at it—and they're nuclear powers. And I don't want to say exactly what I said, but…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times
…spectacular military feats the world has ever seen: the obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty good…
…say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon within a month. And now they can start the operation all…
…that hit." For 22 years they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. He said, "But it was only when you came…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…them all. Although, I don't know, Pakistan-India was very big, both nuclear powers. I settled that. But yesterday is—could be the settlement in…
…and more powerful than it has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear, as you probably know, but we'll upgrade that also and just hope…
…a little bit threatened by Russia recently, and I sent a submarine—nuclear submarine. The most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 8 times
…a pledge of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran's nuclear program. The regime's answer was to continue their constant threats to their…
…bombers dropped the 14 30,000-pound-each bombs on Iran's key nuclear facility, totally obliterating everything. No other country on Earth could have done…
…did something that, for 22 years, people wanted to do. With Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity demolished, I immediately brokered an end to the 12-day…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…to do any trade if you're going to fight." And they have nuclear weapons. They stopped. And then I was told that, "If you can…
…it done one way or the other. But I also obliterated Iran's nuclear hopes by totally annihilating their enriched uranium. And I'll tell you what…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…settled seven. And that doesn't include the destruction of a vast potential nuclear disaster in Iran, which we wiped out—totally, as I say, obliterated…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…you're right. But it's pretty amazing. Quantum computing, fusion, 6G, and civil nuclear energy, and align our nations through the approach of centered deregulation and…
…long while they've been talking about this deal—the deployment of modular nuclear reactors across the U.K.—all across the U.K. They've been—it's been…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…But we got seven of them done. We ended up stopping the nuclear—potential nuclear disaster in Iran with, I think, one of the greatest…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…problem. It was a perfect attack, and it knocked out any possible nuclear capability for Iran, which nobody wanted to see, and we weren't going…
…Bagram, because Bagram is 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We were going to have that all to ourselves—a big…