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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.

“Crime / Criminal” said in 235 of 565 transcripts, 1,339 times.

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Remarks on the Installation of New White House Flagpoles and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …take care of them. But most importantly, we have to get the criminals out of our country. And Biden let in thousands and—11,888…
  2. …through the southern border, you have no problem. You can be a criminal, you can be a drug dealer, and you have no problem. But…
  3. …know, we have billions of dollars allocated to immigration, the border, keeping criminals out, getting criminals out too. If that doesn't pass, you'll get a…

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 3 times

  1. …a big problem. And what they really want to do is keep criminals, because they're trying to protect criminals. Sanctuary cities are a disaster in…
  2. …And you know what happens? They end up hiring the people—the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. So…

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Jun 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …to nullify Federal law and aid the occupation of the city by criminal invaders. That's what it is. They're invaders. No different. Their position is…
  2. …trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks. It's horrible, what's happened so quickly. As the entire world can…

Remarks at an "Invest in America" Roundtable Discussion

Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …still simmering a little bit but not very much. Yes, please. A crime has he committed? I think his primarily—primary crime is running for…
  2. …in schools. They're taking up your hospital. And in many cases, they're criminals, and we have to do something about it. And we're doing something…
  3. …people were allowed into our country, and many of those people were criminals. And it's a shame. It's a shame. But we're getting them out…

Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion With the Fraternal Order of Police

Jun 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …vilified and targeted our Nation's police with Marxist prosecutors and soft-on-crime politicians, making it impossible for you to do your jobs and do…
  2. …You can't do much better than that. We've removed thousands of violent criminal illegal aliens from our communities as part of the largest deportation effort…

Remarks at a Telerally for New Jersey Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Ciattarelli

Jun 2, 2025 Tele-rally 5 times

  1. …Jersey's future. You'll decide whether New Jersey is a high-tax, high-crime, sanctuary State—if you can believe it, a sanctuary State. Nobody wants…
  2. …to be a haven for illegal alien gang members, human traffickers, dangerous criminals of all kinds, including murderers, who have been let into our country…
  3. …and die, and you'll be living in a nightmare of chaos and crime. And you sort of have that, to a certain extent now, but…

The President's News Conference With White House Senior Adviser Elon R. Musk

May 30, 2025 Press conference 6 times

  1. …winner. When they say open borders so the entire world population of criminals can pour into our country, I don't think that's a winner. I…
  2. …But we had millions of people pour into our country. Many, many criminals poured into our country—murderers—murderers, mental institutions from all over the…
  3. …people into our country, and many of those people are stone-cold criminals. They moved their criminal population into the United States. And of all…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Jeanine Pirro as Acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and an Exchange With Reporters

May 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …assistant district attorney in Westchester County, New York, where she prosecuted violent crimes. And that was a serious prosecutor. And she went after real criminals…
  2. …distinguished career. And in the following years, she presided over numerous complex criminal cases. The reason they were complex is that other judges were not…
  3. …It's a big deal. As district attorney, Jeanine tackled high- profile violent crime cases and established one of the Nation's most successful cybercrime units to…

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

May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …to come into our country that shouldn't be. They shouldn't be here. Criminals walk in—no vetting, no check-in, no nothing. Where are they…
  2. …Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal. I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone, and now I'm talking…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and an Exchange With Reporters

May 21, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …unvetted. They came from all over the world. In many cases, they're criminals. They come from prisons. They come from mental institutions. They come from…
  2. …just won a big case. We're allowed to send back hundreds of criminals to Venezuela. Just won that today in the Supreme Court, I'm happy…
  3. …is almost— —which is almost impossible. Johann, please. Right. Yes. But the crime is bad? Yes. Yes. Retief, do you have—excuse me. Do you…

Remarks on the 2027 National Football League Draft and an Exchange With Reporters

May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …the last few months, and it's—it's getting to look really strong. Crime is way down, and a lot of—there's a good relationship we…
  2. …real number is, but let's say 3 million of them are serious criminals—11,888 murderers, many of whom murdered more than one person. It's…
  3. …that. It's not. That's a low number. But many are really serious criminals and terrorists and people from jails. They emptied out jails. You know…

Remarks on the National Day of Prayer

May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …of everything, when you think of it. She's got every form of crime known to mankind—and womankind, too. You always have to say that…
  2. …Black population. Now we're setting records with the Black population. We got criminal justice reform done. We got the Black colleges and universities. You know…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 11 times

  1. …We won on the basis of a great border and of getting criminals out of our country. That was why we won every swing State…
  2. …going to fully understand what's going on. We have to get the criminals out of our country, and that's the basis under which we won…
  3. …have murderers and people from jail and, —I mean, for serious, serious crime. I remember the Biden people used to say, "No, these are aliens…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …and giving amnesty to 30 or 40 million illegals—many of them criminals, many of them, frankly, murderers and people of crime at the absolute…
  2. …I signed the Laken Riley act to facilitate the expulsion of dangerous criminal aliens, and when necessary, we had to put them in jail. We…
  3. …a look. So, under President Trump, America is a dumping ground for criminals no longer. They're not even trying to come in. But while we're…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Rome, Italy

Apr 25, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …country. I mean, you want to see a country that will have crime? Let that happen, because it's really dangerous for our country, and I…
  2. …we'll see how that turns out. But sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals. That's what they are. They're sanctuary for criminals. They protect criminals, and…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 21, 2025 Other 2 times

  1. …And we had millions and millions of people come in who are criminals, who are murderers, who are everything you can imagine—drug lords, drug…
  2. …you know, elected on the basis that we would have very little crime in our country. They don't want illegal immigrants. We've closed up the…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …I can tell you this, we're doing a fantastic job of getting criminals out of this country who Biden allowed into the country—hundreds of…
  2. …I was elected is because I said, "I'm going to get the criminals that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open…
  3. …administration. They say 21 million. And a big percentage of those are criminals—serious criminals. I'm not saying just criminals because they came into the…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 10 times

  1. …country, and we appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime, and so do we, and it's very, very effective. And I want…
  2. …of the people that came, just a tremendous percentage of them, were criminals—in some cases, violent criminals. We had 11,088 known murderers. Half…
  3. …In our favor. It's only CNN. Well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know, released into our country. So they would love it. They're…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …destroyed information on a civil case—just a civil case, not a criminal case, a civil case—they put you in jail for that. And…
  2. …million people were allowed to come in. Many of those people were criminals. And—but the people that do this for a living, some of…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …brought across our borders—think of that—many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords, and the mentally insane. Insane asylums were closed. They…
  2. …investigations than the late, great Al Capone. He was the most violent criminal. He was the most violent mob boss in history, and I was…
  3. …happen. What other Presidents allow China to get away with is absolutely criminal, but I'm not like the other Presidents, and it's not going to…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …and jails and mental institutions, murderers, drug dealers, and some vicious, vicious criminals. Eleven thousand eighty-eight murderers came into our country. We have to…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Apr 6, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …a long time. He's a young leader, and he's very tough on crime. Very, very tough on crime. And in their system—their prison system…
  2. …the law would say anything different. If they can house these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us, I'm all for…
  3. …just at people that crossed the border illegally? We have some horrible criminals, American grown and born. And if we have somebody that bops an…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Alina Habba as Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey

Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Alina will work tirelessly to weed out crime and corruption and restore law and order to the Garden State, as…
  2. …to live, and we all love it. Under the last administration, violent crime in New Jersey, however, rose more than 60 percent. And under the…
  3. …a sudden in trying to protect some very, very bad people of crime—they have to stop. They have to let us do the job…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …came in, but, of that, at least 3 million are serious, serious criminals. Many of them are murderers—11,088. And of that number, about…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and Meeting With United States Ambassadorial Nominees and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …studied the records, and he was. He was a victim of a crime, as far as I'm concerned. So we're going to undo that. All…
  2. …some of these jurisdictions that aren't cooperating with law enforcement. They're guarding criminals. They're taking the rights away from the citizens of their State and…
  3. …end the entire thing altogether, because it's just a way of protecting criminals, and nobody else is benefited by that. And for some reason, Democrats…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Prior to Departure for Bedminster, New Jersey

Mar 21, 2025 Other 3 times

  1. …have just about more sanctions than anybody. Because we want to get criminals out of our country, number one. And I don't know when it…
  2. …them out, and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country. I would say that I'd have the Secretary…
  3. …radical- left judge, he should be saying, "Why did Biden allow these criminals in our country?" That's what he should be doing. Thank you. I'll…

Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …so bad for our country. I won on the basis of getting criminals out of our country that were let in—it was called unforced…
  2. …unchecked, just as you would say? And many of those people were criminals. Many of them were from jails and prisons and mental institutions and…
  3. …of people to come into our country, many of these people hardened criminals at the top of the line, who have caused tremendous damage in…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 16, 2025 Other 5 times

  1. …group. When you look at them, and you look at the—the crimes that they've committed. You take a look. You don't get any tougher…
  2. …time of war, because Biden allowed millions of people—many of them criminals, many of them—at the highest level. They emptied jails out—other…
  3. …their jails into the United States. That's an invasion. And these are criminals—many, many criminals: murderers, drug dealers at the highest level, drug lords…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …page on 4 long years of corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals. And we are restoring fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional…
  2. …administration, the DOJ and the FBI will once again become the premier crime-fighting agencies on the face of the earth. People ask me what…
  3. …that will be breaking all sorts of records. They set loose violent criminals while targeting patriotic parents at school board meetings. They dropped charges against…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …people flow through an open border—many of those people were hard criminals from prisons and jails, from mental institutions, and I always say "insane…
  2. …happened in the last 4 years, our country would have been a crime-ridden mess. And I don't know if you noticed—a little thing…
  3. …it's my ideas. And basically, we want—we don't want to have crime in the streets. We don't want to have people pushed into subways…