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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.

“Venezuela” said in 21 of 98 transcripts, 123 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 12 times

  1. …really witnessed. Although, you got a pretty good witnessing of it in Venezuela also. That was a smaller version of what we're doing now. We're…
  2. …in the world, no—not even a contest. You see that with Venezuela. They had other equipment. They didn't have ours. It didn't work. Didn't…
  3. …people, forced people into our country. Incredible. He emptied his prisons in Venezuela—emptied his prisons into our country, and I hope that charge will…

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 3 times

  1. …by far. And we are, this is—everything's big, in my book. Venezuela was big. This is big. The original hit, Midnight Hammer, was big…
  2. …soon, we're not going to know anybody. But we have, I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack, and we kept government…
  3. …many times over. And we're going to be running the oil. And Venezuela is going to make more money than they ever made, and that's…

Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting

Jan 29, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 15 times

  1. …As you know, we've had a situation take place with respect to Venezuela. I want to just thank General Caine and his staff. The job…
  2. …once it did take place, I want to thank the leadership of Venezuela. We're getting along really well with them. The relationships have been very…
  3. …everybody, on the oil. We have the major oil companies going to Venezuela now, scouting it out and picking their locations. And they'll be bringing…

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 45 times

  1. …we're doing really well. We had a situation 3 days ago with Venezuela, and we're getting along extremely well with the people of Venezuela—both…
  2. …going to discuss how these great American companies can help rapidly rebuild Venezuela's dilapidated oil industry and bring millions of barrels of oil production to…
  3. …do you hear that, Peter?—of oil was given to us by Venezuela. That's a lot of oil. It's about $4 billion worth, and it's…

Remarks During a Meeting With the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 5 times

  1. …I don't rule out anything. We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country from prisons…
  2. …of people pouring through our border, and many of them came from Venezuela, including Tren de Aragua, the gang. And I guess what I'm hearing…
  3. …a dumping ground. So I'm not in love with the people running Venezuela. I love Venezuela. I love the people of Venezuela. But what they've…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With President Javier Milei of Argentina and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 5 times

  1. …was very successful at one point, and it can be again, like Venezuela. Venezuela was very, very successful, and now it's a dictatorship. So we…
  2. …very bad gangs. You know, it's no different than other countries. Like Venezuela sent their gangs into us, and we took care of those gangs…
  3. …loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina. Okay? Well, Venezuela has done a couple of things very badly. Number one, we get…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Karol Nawrocki of Poland and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …do this." We have to protect our country, and we're going to. Venezuela has been a very bad actor. They've been—as you know, they…
  2. …of them very quickly, but they're out of here. They're gone. But Venezuela has been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some…
  3. …out—you don't know this, but they emptied out their prisons in Venezuela, and they emptied them out into the United States of America, and…

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

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …from mental institutions, and they came from gangs and—the gangs of Venezuela and other places. And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them…
  2. …Jails—the jails of the Congo were emptied out. The jails of Venezuela were emptied out. And you know what happened? Their crime went way…
  3. …to him. They know what to do. But they have no money. Venezuela has no money. But Iran had no money. And Iran behaved so…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a National Governors Association Meeting

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …just didn't use it. Can you imagine? Biden set us up in Venezuela instead of taking ours, so that we go to Venezuela where they'd…
  2. …have more under our feet than anybody else. But we went to Venezuela to buy oil instead of taking it from our own land and…
  3. …taken it, instead of all of the problems. And then we made Venezuela strong again. You know, they've given them a lot of money. They…