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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.

“Iran” said in 108 of 299 transcripts, 454 times.

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Remarks at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Apr 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …hostile territory"—and I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran. They're capable fighters. They're very tough people. And there are others like…

Address to the Nation on United States Military Operations in Iran

Apr 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony 23 times

  1. …Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number one state sponsor of terror: Iran. In these past 4 weeks, our Armed Forces have delivered swift, decisive…
  2. …on the battlefield—victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight Iran's navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most…
  3. …provide an update on the tremendous progress our warriors have made in Iran and discuss why Operation Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 31, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 4 times

  1. …also feeling a lot safer. All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon, and they'll be—come tumbling…
  2. …Maybe they were trying to defend him. I don't know. No. No. Iran doesn't have to—— Iran doesn't have to make a deal, no. Yes…
  3. …say the greatest military maneuver they've ever seen. Look what's happening in Iran. We're just—I mean, we're totally unchecked. Everything has been bombed out…

Remarks on United States Military Operations in Iran and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. Hello, everybody. So we've had very good negotiations today with Iran, getting a lot of the things that we—they should have given us a…
  2. …are doing extremely well in that negotiation, but you never know with Iran, because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow…
  3. …it's the B–2 bombers or just terminating, as an example, the Iran nuclear deal done by Barack Hussein Obama, probably the worst deal we've…

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

Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the FII PRIORITY Summit 24 times

  1. …leadership, America is ending the threat posed by this radical regime, decimating Iran's capabilities with Operation Epic Fury, something that nobody has ever seen anything…
  2. …even knows about except for a few of us. For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East, but they…
  3. …any longer. They're on the run. Last June, America's Armed Forces obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities in one of the most spectacular military actions of…

Remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee Annual Fundraising Dinner

Mar 25, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers Remarks at the NRCC Annual Fundraising Dinner 12 times

  1. …has ever seen anything like we're doing in the Middle East with Iran. And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make…
  2. …a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran. "I don't want it." We listen to some of the things they…
  3. …you listen to the news, you think we're losing a war in Iran where we're decimating the other side. I mean, the better ones have…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts DHS swearing-in ceremony 5 times

  1. …We're having, by the way, a tremendous success, as you know, in Iran. We had one in Venezuela, and now we're having one in Iran…
  2. …We are roaming free over Tehran—the city, Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free. We can do whatever we want. And, as you…
  3. …what you're talking about. You're talking about saving millions of lives. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, they would've used it. And if I didn't…

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion With the Memphis Safe Task Force in Memphis, Tennessee

Mar 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable 12 times

  1. …And it's very appropriate for what's taken place, if you know, in Iran, because we knocked out their navy, we knocked out their air force…
  2. …I announced earlier, based on preliminary conversations between the United States and Iran over the past 2 days, I've directed the Department of War to…
  3. …understand, I know my whole life has been a negotiation, but, with Iran, we've been negotiating for a long time. And this time they mean…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Establishing the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …than almost anybody. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. I called them out 20 years ago when…
  2. …strongly, like I do, about wars. And I say, "Do you think Iran is violent, and do you think their people are violent?" "Yes, the…
  3. …these are naïve people that, frankly, are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you, because they…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 12, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …this happen. On another front, an entirely different front, the situation with Iran is moving along very rapidly. It's doing very well. Our military is…
  2. …at what they did in Venezuela and now what they're doing in Iran, it's been amazing. But when you look at all of this, everybody…

Remarks on the National Economy in Walton, Kentucky

Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury—is that a great name? Well, it's only…
  2. …I said, "The name of what?" "The name of the attack on Iran, sir." And they gave me, like, 20 names, and I'm, like, falling…
  3. …job, right? Over the past 11 days, our military has virtually destroyed Iran. Tough country. Their air force is gone. Totally gone. That took the…

Remarks at the House Republicans Issues Conference in Miami, Florida

Mar 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter, with—also with Iran. But if you look at what happened with the helicopters and the…
  2. …the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The navy is gone…
  3. …relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated. As— . And remember, Iran did so many bad things. They were really—if you look at…

Remarks at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Miami, Florida

Mar 7, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to the Shield of Americas Summit 3 times

  1. …it on Earth, not even close. And we're doing very well in Iran. You see the result, and it's been amazing. We've knocked out 42…
  2. …sad situation—to greet the families of the heroes coming home from Iran, coming home in a different manner than they thought they'd be coming…
  3. …the way it is. And—but our focus right now is on Iran. And we'll do that, I would say—what will you do, take…

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion on Saving College Sports and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Saving College Sports Roundtable 3 times

  1. …right. It—there's a lot. We're doing very—by the way, in Iran, we're doing very well. Somebody said, "How would you score it from…
  2. …before this, where they took out the nuclear capability or potential of Iran. I think our—I think we're, right now, we're a country that's…
  3. …sports, and it doesn't sound very important compared to what's happening in Iran and other places, but it is very important to me. And if…

Remarks Honoring the 2025 Major League Soccer Champion Inter Miami

Mar 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Inter Miami CF 7 times

  1. …what's going on with respect to our operation in the country of Iran. The United States military, together with the wonderful Israeli partners, continues to…
  2. …levels that people have never seen before, actually. We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody…
  3. …badly affected and hurt, it mostly came from—95 percent—Soleimani and Iran. And we—other Presidents lived with it. I didn't live with it…

Remarks on Presenting the Medal of Honor to Command Sergeant Major Terry P. Richardson, USA, and Posthumously to Master Sergeant Roderick W. Edmonds, USA, and Staff Sergeant Michael H. Ollis, USA

Mar 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Medal of Honor Ceremony 6 times

  1. …United States military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist…
  2. …nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer a short while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location, because…
  3. …nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama. That was a horrible, horrible…

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. …if it were not for my involvement; Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda. And, of…
  2. …why, 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…
  3. …it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Many decades. Since they seized control of…

Remarks to United States Servicemembers and Military Families at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Feb 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to Fort Bragg Military Families 4 times

  1. …a real force, and you see that with what we did in Iran with the B–2 bombers—a lot of you were involved in…
  2. …very much. 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…
  3. …medals. But that was Operation Midnight Hammer, achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability. Totally obliterated. And think: Every single one of those…

Remarks on the Environmental Protection Agency's Rescission of the "Endangerment Finding" With Respect to Greenhouse Gas Emissions and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 12, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 3 times

  1. …they got Midnight Hammer instead. And this will be very traumatic for Iran if they don't make a deal. Look, if they don't make a…
  2. …deal isn't a very fair deal and a very good deal with Iran, then it's going to be, I think, a very difficult time for…
  3. …strong. We've worked with him very well. We had tremendous success with Iran and everything else we've done. And he really has been—he's been…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at National Prayer Breakfast 6 times

  1. …been stronger. And you saw that with the B–2 bombers in Iran and—and you saw it with—recently, with Venezuela, where we're getting…
  2. …it. In his very quiet manner, he's brutal. Just ask Venezuela. Ask Iran. They're negotiating now. They don't want to—they don't want us to…
  3. …the okay for, like, the attack on Venezuela or the attack on Iran. He says, I say, we all say—we're all in a room…

Remarks on the United States Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …you're going to have—a lot of things are happening. You have Iran, and you have Russia-Ukraine, and you have the Middle East. We…
  2. …it's something. Well, we're talking about that. We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones—biggest and the best. And we have talks…
  3. …But I'm not—I have all I can handle right now, with Iran and with Russia and Ukraine and with all the things we're doing…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Celebrating American Greatness With American Motor Racing

Jan 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …large armada—flotilla—you can call it whatever you want—heading toward Iran right now. Even larger than what we had in Venezuela. It's still…
  2. …really well. We're now sending, actually, a larger number of ships to Iran, and hopefully, we'll make a deal. If we do make a deal…
  3. …know, they have to float someplace. They might as well float near Iran. But it's a rough situation going on. So I stopped 837 people…

Remarks in Clive, Iowa

Jan 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Iowa 2 times

  1. …1 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…
  2. …just—and by the way, there's another beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran right now. So we'll see. I hope they make a deal. I…

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. …fighters, and they did a good job. And we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat like nobody can believe. Nobody's ever seen anything like it…
  2. …Undetectable, like our B–2 bombers were undetectable. They flew right over Iran. They were undetectable, and they did their job, and they got the…
  3. …you would have had this dark cloud. And the dark cloud was Iran with nuclear. Iran would—if we didn't take them out, they would…

Remarks at a Hanukkah Reception

Dec 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Hanukkah Reception 12 times

  1. …we did—the best job of all, is we knocked out the Iran nuclear power. And they would have had that in—within a month…
  2. …good President——don't forget, you had a President previously that believed in Iran. They ditched the entire world for Iran. That's why they signed the…
  3. …not 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…

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. …Netanyahu has been, obviously, a very good one. Look, we took out Iran. We wiped out—with that plane right there, we wiped out—the…
  2. …would have never been able to do that if—for instance, if Iran—if we didn't—with that B–2 bomber, right there on the…
  3. …they did. Atomic Energy Commission confirmed it. So did—actually, so did Iran confirm it. They got knocked to hell. But if we didn't knock…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 12 times

  1. …a job, and that made peace possible, because everybody was afraid of Iran, and now they're not afraid of Iran anymore. And Iran would like…
  2. …And the people that have seen the site said obliterated. And frankly, Iran said it was obliterated. And to show you how accurate it was…
  3. …like, gone-zo. It's—one person actually used the term "obliterated," but Iran actually said that they probably can never go there again. They can…

Remarks at McDonald's Impact Summit 2025

Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 5 times

  1. …saw that with the way we took out the nuclear capability of Iran, with those gorgeous B–2 bombers. They flew in there, and they…
  2. …Room that you wouldn't believe. And they said, "Sir, they have entered Iran airspace." All of a sudden, you see da-da-da-da-da…
  3. …they flew 37 hours flawlessly. Now, compare that to the Jimmy Carter Iran situation, with the helicopters crashing and the this and—oh, what a…

Remarks at a Veterans Day Ceremony in Arlington, Virginia

Nov 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Veterans Day address 2 times

  1. …a real general. And congratulations on wiping out the nuclear capability of Iran in about a matter of seconds, once they got there. They traveled…
  2. …much, 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…

Remarks at a Working Dinner With Leaders of Central Asian Countries and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts dinner with Central Asian Countries 6 times

  1. …wanted to come in, but they couldn't because of the status of Iran. When Iran had a possibility of nuclear weapons, which they do not…
  2. …had a hard time going against that. I understand that. Now that Iran has been very much decimated in terms of their nuclear and in…
  3. …we took the sanctions off to give them a chance. And frankly, Iran has been asking if the sanctions could be lifted. Iran has got…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

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

  1. …know, the key was when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. All of a sudden, everybody said, "Wow, that was nice." They've been…
  2. …know what? Tariffs—without tariffs, that would have never happened. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Cambodia and Thailand. All of…

Remarks to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel

Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 17 times

  1. …with you. Loved it. They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this…
  2. …other guys 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…
  3. …wouldn't feel comfortable making the deal that we have now—right?—if Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from…