Official transcripts

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.

“Drone” said in 11 of 96 transcripts, 39 times.

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Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 26, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 5 times

…smaller version of what we're doing now. We're crushing their missiles and drone stockpiles, destroying their defense industrial base. We've wiped out their navy completely…
…do that. But a lot of the factories where they manufacture the drones and the missiles. The drones too are way down, but the reason…
…towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they're building, and we're doing that. They now have a chance…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of Japan and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 19, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Bilateral Meeting with Japan 1 time

…Pete, maybe you could discuss it—— ——by about 90-something percent. The drones are way down and the factories are being demolished. Maybe— So we…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 1 time

…they have a lot of missile factories. They have a lot of drone factories. And so he's—you know, wants to send them when we…

Remarks During a Board of Trustees Meeting of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 16, 2026 Meeting 5 times

…reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95 percent reduction in drone attacks. The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels, because…
…manufacturing plants, where they—places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones, and that's going on today. We just hit three of them today…
…dismantling Iran's defense industrial base, and ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability is getting down to close to zero. And we're hammering their…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 3, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts a Bilateral Meeting with Germany 1 time

…attacking. They thought they'd maybe sit it out or what. They're—they've drone—they've hit Qatar. They've hit U.A.E. They've hit Saudi Arabia. They've hit…

Remarks During a Meeting With Executives of Oil and Gas Companies and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 1 time

…and it will also take care of the Inauguration—with bulletproof glass, drone-proof ceilings, and everything else, unfortunately, that today you need. So we're…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With President Volodymyr Zelenskky of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 8 times

…think we're—— We are. Yes, we would—we have a lot of drones right now. We build our own drones, but we also buy drones…
…nothing like the jets. You know, we knocked out a lot of drones in Israel. We were knocking them out for Israel, and we were…
…them. So it's—you know, we've—we know a lot about the drones, and we know a lot about the great jets—the great ones…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time

…week later, his head's blown off in a stupid war by a drone, a whole new form of military problem. So, no, I'd like it…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 3 times

…of warfare—wars. It's a whole new form of fighting. It's a drone fighting. It's a drone war. No—a drone war never existed before…

Remarks in a Roundtable Meeting With Business Leaders and an Exchange With Reporters in Doha, Qatar

May 15, 2025 Meeting 12 times

…with new systems. And we're coming up with a new system of drones, because drones are really—if you look at the war that's going…
…you're going to come up with some nice, inexpensive engine for a drone so that we don't have to spend so much. I asked one…
…And you know, in the case of Iran, they make a good drone, and they make them for $35-, $40,000, so I said to…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 1 time

…these fields that are dead because the weapons today are unbelievable, between drones and various types of guns. I'm not even talking about—beyond that…