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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.

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Remarks on the Construction of the White House Ballroom and an Exchange With Reporters

May 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …Some people think you don't have borders. You should let anybody—murderers, drug dealers—you should let them in. So there is some—but I…
  2. …bad. Right. That was a big announcement. Got no coverage. I reduce drug prices by 50, 60, 70, 80 percent, and it gets no coverage…
  3. …of now, we're paying the lowest price in the world. Prices of drugs have gone down 70, 80, 90 percent. For 28 years, they never…

Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters

May 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Healthcare Affordability Event 12 times

  1. …the TrumpRx.gov, a brandnew website featuring the largest discounts on prescription drugs in the history of our country—the history, frankly, of any country…
  2. …expensive. So, we've slashed the price of dozens of commonly used prescription drugs by differences of 400, 500, and even 600 percent. In my first…
  3. …4-, 5-, and 6-and even 700 percent, including for weight loss drugs, fertility treatments, insulin, and much, much more. Since that launch in February…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Dinner

May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …had about 25 million people come through totally unchecked, unvetted murderer, killers, drug dealers, drug addicts all over the place—right?—mental—people from mental…
  2. …destroy our country. There's something wrong with them. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down, by the way, by over 60 percent…
  3. …others are doing with respect—is that right Paul?—with respect to drugs coming in by sea, meaning drugs coming in by water, by the…

Remarks at a Mother's Day Luncheon

May 8, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Rose Garden remarks 14 times

  1. …border, we've also made tremendous strides in stopping the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The flood of deadly fentanyl across our border is…
  2. …the time of the evening, they'd be back on another boat bringing drugs in. So, we gave them warning, and we don't do that anymore…
  3. …soon. I want to thank the brave moms fighting the epidemic of drug addition here—addiction, and this afternoon—including Anne Fundner. Anne, you're here…

Remarks at a Celebration of Military Mothers and an Exchange With Reporters

May 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Military Mother's Day Event 4 times

  1. …the numbers speak for themselves. If you really get down, you see drug traffic coming into our country is way down. And by sea—by…
  2. …out and the next day he's back in his country, bringing more drugs in. It—nothing worked. They were down nothing. Get worse, worse, worse…
  3. …die from just a couple of those boats—think of it—from drugs. Ruin families, ruin every—and when you see that, you say, "Thank…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner in West Palm Beach, Florida

May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump joins The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner 14 times

  1. …situation. We were allowing jail—people in jail, people in mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers—11,888 murderers coming into our country. Many of those…
  2. …their countries or they're in jails. We've secured the largest reduction in drug prices in American history. Under my most-favored-nation agreements, we're delivering…
  3. …what that is, is most-favored nation. We were the highest-priced-drug nation anywhere—prescription drugs—anywhere in the world. By far the highest…

Remarks During an Event With Seniors in Middleton, Florida

May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump say delivers remarks at The Villages 12 times

  1. …importantly for our great seniors, I have secured the largest reduction in drug prices in American history. You see it. Under my most-favored-nation…
  2. …We were the most overpriced. We had the highest price for prescription drugs anywhere in the world, and now we have the lowest prices anywhere…
  3. …said to me: "You know, it's going to be very tough. The drug companies are going to be bad." But we had to get the…

Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Health Care Affordability Event 20 times

  1. …behind me—Marty—has been incredible. It's the biggest price reduction in drugs in history. By itself, we should win the midterms, but it doesn't…
  2. …too quickly. But we'll have the biggest—it's the biggest cut in drug prices in the history of our country by many percentage points. With…
  3. …of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, representing 80 percent of the branded drug market, have now agreed to sell their drugs to American patients at…

Remarks on Signing the Executive Order on Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …dramatically accelerate access to new medical research and treatments based on psychedelic drugs. In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life-changing potential for…
  2. …to expedite their review of certain psychedelics already designated as Breakthrough Therapy drugs. They're very much being discussed. I think—that's one of the hottest…
  3. …the Department of Veterans Affairs, and facilitate fast rescheduling of any psychedelic drugs that become FDA approved. And we think many of them will go…

Remarks at a Turning Point, U.S.A., Event in Phoenix, Arizona

Apr 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at Turning Point USA 8 times

  1. …invasion of America. That's an invasion by criminals. Many, many criminals, murderers, drug dealers, prisoners. They emptied out their prisons into our country. And we…
  2. …My father was great. Before he was born. The flow of deadly fentanyl pouring across our border is down by a astounding 59 percent. And…
  3. …way or the other. We will make most-favored-nation discounts on drug prices permanent law. So I got you drug reductions on prescription drugs…

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 2 times

  1. …to be taken out of our country that are murderers, that are drug dealers, and that are people from mental institutions, the criminally insane. These…
  2. …our country. Many of those people were criminals. Many of them were drug dealers and murderers and people that were let in—let out of…

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 2 times

  1. …like they were nonexistent. These people were totally unvetted, unchecked, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, vicious criminals, even the criminally insane. In 2024, the…
  2. …I was saying, "No, put tariffs on that. Put tariffs on for fentanyl. Add 20 percent for—" And then one day, I said, "What's China…

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 13 times

  1. …good. That's pretty good. We've also accomplished the largest reduction in illegal drugs in history—in the history of our country. Think of that. With…
  2. …do the land, and you'll be very happy about it. We've reduced drugs coming into this country by an astounding amount. Now the Democrats have…
  3. …have endured so much punishment, all because they want to get murderers, drug dealers, people who are totally mentally insane—many, many of the worst…

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 4 times

  1. …us secure the border, stop migrant crime, end the scourge of illegal drugs, and make America safe again and make America great again. And he…
  2. …in from all over the world, from prisons and gangs—gang members, drug dealers, people from mental institutions, insane asylums. That's the mental institution times…
  3. …They want to protect them from being taken out of the country. Drug dealers, murderers—they're protecting them all. I don't know how people can…

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 3 times

  1. …into our country. And so many of these people are murderers. They're drug dealers. They're the worst criminals anywhere in the world. They want them…
  2. …Asia, everywhere. And they were from jails and mental institutions. They were drug dealers. They were murderers—11,888 murderers. In any event, the Democrats…
  3. …our leaders allowed entire cities in America to be destroyed by crime, drugs, and gang violence. Tolerating this violence was always a choice. Nineteen of…

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

Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …all these people coming in illegally into our country—many criminals, many drug dealers, murderers—11,888 murderers. And you look at California, and more…
  2. …also. And you know, we worked so hard—like, most-favored-nations drug prices. For years people have wanted. We paid the highest drug prices…
  3. …favored nations. So now we went from, by far, the most expensive drugs anywhere in the world—prescription drugs—to the least expensive. And I…

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

Mar 12, 2026 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …because we were paying the highest price anywhere in the world for drugs and prescription drugs, and now we're paying the lowest price anywhere in…
  2. …had to agree. They said it would be impossible to get. The drug companies, I had to get them, but they didn't care because they…
  3. …just as an example—"you have to double the price of your drugs. You'll still be low, but you have to double them." "No, no…

Remarks on the National Economy in Walton, Kentucky

Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …said, "Why don't you use the weapon that we use on the drugs that come in by sea?" Do you know that drugs by sea…
  2. …who's an incredible guy, helped us so much with the reduction in drug prices that you got—the biggest reduction in history. Chris Klomp. Great…
  3. …buying up single-family homes. Under my most-favored-nation agreements for drug prices, we're also slashing drug prices at —record levels, with price differences…

Remarks at the House Republicans Issues Conference in Miami, Florida

Mar 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …888 murderers, 50 percent of which murdered more than one person. The drug dealers came in. The mentally insane came in. They emptied their mental…
  2. …going to have every person in jail. We're going to have every drug dealer. We're going to have"—all these countries all over the world…
  3. …to take swift action to codify my most-favored-nation policy on drug prices. The biggest—that alone should win the midterms. We have—and…

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 5 times

  1. …a lot of people coming in by boats anymore. We knocked down drugs coming in by sea. Drugs coming in through water is down 96…
  2. …to grow in this region unbelievably rapidly. It has to do with drugs, largely. Earlier this week, here in Miami, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth…
  3. …you. And bloodthirsty cartels that impose their will through murder, torture, extortion, drug trafficking, bribery, and terror. And some of you are in danger. I…

Remarks on Energy in Corpus Christi, Texas

Feb 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Corpus Christi 10 times

  1. …of our country, like you. Under the most-favored-nation agreements for drug prices, we're slashing drug prices at record levels like never seen before…
  2. …for decades. Think of it. For decades, Americans have paid the highest drug prices. Nobody's ever paid more. We would pay sometimes 8, 10, 12…
  3. …the word "fat." Very heavy, slightly obese. But he takes the fat drug, and it didn't work. But he's a very brilliant guy. He's highly…

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? 13 times

  1. …and will work hard to maintain our country. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent in 1…
  2. …and everything else. I'm also ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs like has never happened before. Other Presidents tried to do it, but…
  3. …the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs—will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs…

Remarks on Signing a Proclamation on National Angel Family Day

Feb 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Angel Families Remembrance Ceremony 2 times

  1. …millions of people from countries that we don't want to know about—drug dealers, murderers. Eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight murderers were allowed…
  2. …about is that he allowed 25 million people—many of these murderers, drug lords, criminals, people from mental institutions. They emptied their mental institutions—Tom…

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 2 times

  1. …than the Republican Party, and that starts with the fact that prescription drugs are going to be coming down at numbers that nobody has ever…
  2. …biggest thing to happen in this world—the world of medicine, prescription drugs—ever. There's never been anything like it. You know, if—like, in…

Remarks on Announcing the TrumpRX Prescription Drug Website and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 25 times

  1. …anything like it. Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts for all consumers throughout a new…
  2. …For years, politicians from both parties have promised to bring down prescription drug prices and make health care more affordable, but they all failed. It…
  3. …it is done, actually. This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and it's not even close…

Remarks on Signing the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Bill to Reopen the Government 7 times

  1. …thing, I think for all of us, is most favored nations on drug pricing. So, for 30 years, I've been talking about it—more than…
  2. …not much of an exaggeration at all—we were paying the highest drug prices anywhere in the world—now we'll be paying tied with the…
  3. …is. Most favored nations. We're going to be bringing the price of drugs down. When I—in my first term, I got it down one…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Establishing the Great American Recovery Initiative

Jan 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …who's doing a fantastic job. And Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Sara Carter. I also want to introduce a great friend…
  2. …today have personally known the heartache of a loved one taken by drug or alcohol addiction—I do—just like millions of American families. Every…
  3. …And the real number is probably much, much higher than that. Thankfully, drug overdose deaths plummeted by 21 percent in the last year. We're working…

Remarks in Clive, Iowa

Jan 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Iowa 10 times

  1. …so electable. I did 77. I did something else: favored nations on drugs. We now will pay—we now are paying the lowest price anywhere…
  2. …from $130 down to $20.It's the biggest price reduction of prescription drugs in history. And going to have a huge impact on your health…
  3. …Think of it. I got the biggest price reduction in history on drugs, pharmaceuticals. I can't get these guys to talk about it. It was…

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 12 times

  1. …a job in 12 months. Under my most favored nation policy for drug prices, the cost of prescription drugs is coming down by up to…
  2. …of that. That's—that means it's a doubling—a doubling—of prescription drugs. Might be a tripling, might be a quadrupling. It's not easy. "No…
  3. …been taking advantage of the United States for 30 years with prescription drugs. You really should do it, and you will do it. I have…

Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion on Rural Health Care Improvement Efforts

Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Health Roundtable 29 times

  1. …great health care. First, our proposal codifies the massive discounts on prescription drugs that my administration is achieving through our most favored nation provisions. Okay…
  2. …very fat. And he took the fat—I call it the "fat drug." I won't give you which one. It was Ozempic. I won't tell…
  3. …What's your problem?" "In New York, I pay $1,300 for this drug." Now, this means nothing to him. This is like a penny out…

Remarks to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan

Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 17 times

  1. …health care affordability framework that will reduce premiums for millions of , lower drug prices, delivering price transparency, and demand honesty and accountability from insurance companies…
  2. …with my most-favored-nation Executive order. We're doing most-favored-nation drug prices. When we would have drug prices stay the same, everybody thought…
  3. …thousands of percents. We're standing up to special interest and slashing prescription drug prices by 300, 400, 500, and even 600 percent and more. I…

Remarks at the House Republican Members Retreat

Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 24 times

  1. …nations, but I do. And then you also had to get the drug companies. The drug companies were not easy, but they were much easier…
  2. …to the other nations. So the other nations used to tell the drug companies, "We're not going to pay more." You keep—they kept it…
  3. …we just kept going up, up, up. And finally, I had the drug companies, and I said: "Listen, fellas, you can't do this. You can't…

Remarks on United States Naval Ship Development and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida

Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 22 times

  1. …Navy. But Pete's doing a fantastic job. By the way, we have—drugs are down 96.2 percent, coming into the United States—92.6…
  2. …lives every time we knock out one of those boats with the drugs pouring in. And you just have to see it. I mean, people…
  3. …early on not to do that. Yes. Please. No. No. Anywhere. Anywhere drugs are pouring in. Anywhere. Not just Venezuela. No. Yes. Yes. Going to…

Remarks on the National Economy in Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 32 times

  1. …meeting at the White House where we cut the cost of prescription drugs by 300, 400, 500, and even 600 percent. And I'm doing what…
  2. …all over. All over the world, we had the highest prices for drugs because we had politicians that wouldn't—I did it at the beginning…
  3. …everyone dying, we want you to pay a lot of money for drugs." You can't do it. But we did it, and we—nobody's ever…

Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Prescription Drug Prices

Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 23 times

  1. …in. And they came from prisons and mental institutions, and they were drug dealers, and all sorts of people came in that shouldn't be here…
  2. …group—to announce that they've agreed to offer many of their flagship drugs—really, all of their flagship drugs—at heavily discounted, most favored nations…
  3. …doing it anymore. This is the biggest thing having to do with drugs in the history of the purchase of drugs, and I don't think…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya; and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow; as well as Dr. Ilana Braun from the…
  2. …or form and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug. It has nothing to do with that. Just as the prescription painkillers…
  3. …especially in this case, if you take a look: illegal and unregulated drugs—very, very bad thing. So I've always told my children: "Don't take…

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 8 times

  1. …came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50 percent…
  2. …safety that we've never seen before. And they decimated the bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves, with our people, and we're…
  3. …up to the special interests to dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs. I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations, which were…