Official transcripts
White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“Nuclear” said in 41 of 96 transcripts, 163 times.
Counted forms: nuclear, nuclears, nuclear's.
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Mar 26, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 15 times
…done it a long time ago because you cannot give lunatics a nuclear weapon, and they would have had a big one. It stopped, really… …Barack Hussein Obama, what he did where he gave them the Iran nuclear deal, gave them free will toward a nuclear weapon. Basically, he chose… …deal. Had I not terminated that deal, you would have had a nuclear weapon years ago, and it would have been used, guaranteed. And one…
Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 23 times
…were just discussing it, actually. Very important that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran, and we've done that very strongly, very powerfully. We've… …Oh, you shouldn't do it." They had—they would have had a nuclear weapon within 1 month of when we had the B–2 bombers… …have Iran—or anybody—but nobody wants to have Iran with a nuclear —because these people are crazy. They're absolutely crazy, and they're vicious, violent…
Mar 16, 2026 Meeting 1 time
…the most violent, vicious country in the last 50 years have a nuclear weapon, because the Middle East will be gone. Israel will go first…
Mar 3, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts a Bilateral Meeting with Germany 7 times
…the Middle East if Iran was allowed to go. Even beyond the nuclear , if Iran was allowed to have all the—look at all the… …Hammer, had we not done that, Iran would've had a very powerful nuclear weapon within 1 month. We did it. It was great timing, but… …I didn't terminate that deal, they would be sitting with a massive nuclear weapon 3 years ago, which would've been used already on Israel at…
Feb 19, 2026 Meeting 8 times
…we did. We saved—these are two very powerful—these are two nuclear nations. And I don't want to say what was going to happen… …big bombs. And it went into Iran, and it totally decimated the nuclear —nuclear potential. And when it did, when it decimated that, all of… …do have some work to do with Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. They can't have—you can't have peace in…
Jan 29, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 2 times
…a electric-producing plant, mostly electric, but electric to—they can use nuclear to do it. They can use oil and gas. They can use… …there. It's tried, it's true, it's plentiful, it's inexpensive. Some are going nuclear . Some are going both. Many are going all three. But the plants…
Jan 21, 2026 Meeting 2 times
…see that. Now, I would say, if we didn't bomb the Iran nuclear plant, they would have had a nuclear weapon within 2 months. You…
Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 2 times
…of the air, and I got it done in rapid order without nuclear weapons. I can't think of anybody in history that should get the… …any. They use coal and they use oil and gas and some nuclear . Not much. But they don't have windmills. They make them and sell…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 2 times
…terms of us than they were prior to us taking out the nuclear capability of Iran. You know, Iran has gone down many, many steps… …a much different place since the taking out of Iran and the nuclear capability. Yes. Let's get to another question. Here we go. This guy…
Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 3 times
…issue. I think we've done a great job in wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else could have done that. No other President… …because it was the right thing to do. You can't have a nuclear Iran, and so we put you in a very good position. But… …don't—it's not urgent. You know, it's always—when you have civil nuclear , but you have more oil than almost anybody else. We actually have…
Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 1 time
…we did in terms of obliterating, you know, their—we obliterated their nuclear capability. Yes, I will say that we will be doing that. We'll…
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 2 times
…for the Republicans is to terminate the filibuster. They call it the nuclear option. This is the second form of nuclear—very good, very good…
Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 3 times
…farmers. I think we're going to make a deal on maybe even nuclear . You know, President Putin, in his call, mentioned to me about nuclear… …good. I think it's a very appropriate thing. We have the most nuclear weapons. Russia is second. China is actually third by a long way…
Oct 20, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral with Prime Minister of Australia 1 time
…a dark cloud over the Middle East. When we took out their nuclear capability, which was one of the great military maneuvers of all time…
Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 2 times
…India, as an example. That would have been a bad one. Two nuclear nations, right? So I say this: This pretty much the last one… …the big hit that we put on Iran, with respect to the nuclear . They took—That was a—that was an unbelievable military maneuver, the…
Oct 13, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…a big hit. And frankly, if we didn't hit them on the nuclear , I don't think you would have been able to have this incredible…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump's Bilateral meeting with President of Finland 2 times
…big one, although I think India and Pakistan is very big. Two nuclear nations. I made that—I did that based on trade and because… …immediately stopped fighting. And that was going—that was going to go nuclear . You know, that was back and forth. So I know one thing…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 3 times
…because, let's say that didn't happen. They'd probably, by now, have a nuclear weapon, numerous nuclear weapons. And therefore, even if we signed a deal… …be able to rebuild their country too, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. So I want to express my tremendous gratitude to the leaders…
Sep 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump-Starmer Bilateral 3 times
…to the U.K. We also are joining forces on quantum computing and nuclear power, a natural partnership for close allies. The United States, as you… …as you know, it's an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So a lot of things are happening. But I'm—I am… …to be settleable. We did India, and we did Pakistan. That's two nuclear —that was purely for trade. You want to trade with us, you're…
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…even "very clean coal." But we have coal going up. We have nuclear going up. Nuclear is very much in vogue now. It's safe and… …fossil fuel is the thing that works, and then you can add nuclear with it and other things. But fossil fuel is what works if… …I think it's important that we—these are two very major powers—nuclear powers at that—but two very important powers. You know, when I…
Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…India and Pakistan, which was probably 2 weeks away from being a nuclear war. They were shooting down airplanes all over the place. So I… …because they feel I've saved—I think you would have had a nuclear war if I weren't—I think you would have had a nuclear… …disaster. You're only 60 miles away from Seoul. They don't even need nuclear . They have their cannons, you know, howitzers, and they have them buried…
Aug 18, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…we obliterated—and it turned out to be a total obliteration—the nuclear in—as you saw, the nuclear—the future nuclear capability of Iran…
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…know, there's a whole new thing happening with regard to energy from nuclear . And the Prime Minister is looking at that very strongly. And I… …brand that is. But you're also doing the Rolls-Royce or the nuclear plants—the smaller plants. We're doing smaller and bigger, but the small… …you're very far progressed. But that's a great thing you're doing on nuclear . We opened up nuclear about 2 months ago. And it's now safe…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…up very badly, for good reason. We cannot have them have a nuclear weapon. But they still talk about enrichment. I mean, who would do…
Jul 16, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…place a few weeks ago in Iran. Knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity, and it was obliterated. You know, they—I used that term…
Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…what they were doing, which is trying to come up with a nuclear weapon, a nuclear bomb. And we did it very successfully. And we… …30 years. India, by the way, and Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. That was going… …the world. We make equipment like no other. You know, our submarines—nuclear submarines are so powerful. They are the most powerful weapon ever built…
Jul 9, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…have the right to use coal. They have the right to use nuclear . Nuclear has become—come a long way in the last 5 years…
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…right now—they were 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. I was keeping it. Outside of that, we were leaving, and…
Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…not—if you're going to fight." And they were maybe at a nuclear stage. They're both, you know, nuclear powers. And I think stopping that…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…India and Pakistan, I was able to stop that. And those are nuclear powers. That would have really—that was getting close to being out… …trade if you're going to go shooting each other and whipping out nuclear weapons that maybe even affect us," because, you know, that nuclear dust…
May 15, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…not going to make—I'll—I call it, in a friendly way, "nuclear dust." We're not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran… …end up being a great country, frankly, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. That's the only thing. It's very simple. It's not like I… …pages worth of details. There's only one sentence: They can't have a nuclear weapon. And I think we're getting close to maybe doing a deal…
May 14, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. I don't imagine there's anybody…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…going to hurt anybody. I really don't. But Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's, you know, pretty simple. It's really simple. We're not looking… …land. We're not—all we're saying is we—you can't have a nuclear weapon. The deal that was made—the deal that was made with… …would have expired, and that gave them a clear path to a nuclear weapon. I wouldn't have accepted. That's why I terminated the deal. Number…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…along. But Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. He can't have a nuclear… …we can't have anybody having nuclear weapons. You know? We can't have nuclear weapons. And I think they're tapping us along because they were so… …thing is—one thing, simple; it's really simple—they can't have a nuclear weapon, and they've got to go fast, because they're fairly close to…
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…I hate to say it, great danger, because they can't have a nuclear weapon. You know, it's not a complicated formula. Iran cannot have a… …there is. Can't have it. Right now we have countries—— ——that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it, but I'm sure we'll be able to… …of this, later on down the line. But Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And if the talks aren't successful, I actually think it'll be…
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…fine with me. But they are talking about ownership of the big nuclear power plant, in particular. But all of these things will come up…
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…nonnuclear programs. Maybe they're going to be talking about the deescalation of nuclear weapons, because, you know, I was talking about that with President Putin… …on de-escalation, denuclearization, as they say. But we would have deescalated nuclear weapons, because the power of nuclear weapons is so great and so… …know, in a smaller way—Kim Jong Un has a lot of nuclear weapons, by the way—a lot—and others do also. You have…
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…understand what I mean. I hate to even mention the name—the nuclear name. I hate to mention it. But you have weapons today that…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…China, because it's exactly 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles. So they—we were going to keep Bagram. We were going…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…the Department of the Interior has all the energy, other than some nuclear energy that you're in charge of. But he has all the energy… …powered by natural gas, mostly. Some will use coal. Some will use nuclear . Clean coal. I only say "clean coal," but some will use nuclear…
Feb 4, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…and we're not—we're not going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. You know, I signed a very strong proclamation… …But you know what? We just don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. You don't know what he…