Remarks at a Mother's Day Luncheon
May 8, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Rose Garden remarks 2 times
…through Mexico, for the most part. We have a problem because the cartels rule Mexico. And nobody else—the cartel, they just rule it. And…
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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 18 times
…come together to announce a brandnew military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region. And you have a lot of it. And one…
…when we were talking backstage, you were telling me the crime, the cartels. And we're knocking the hell out of them where we can. We're…
…they're not watching. But we're calling this military partnership the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition. And that's what you need. You have cartels just—they seem…
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
…Mexico—really large parts of Mexico—have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and I…
…go fishing anymore. We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all. You saw that yesterday. In January, elite American warriors…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Establishing the Great American Recovery Initiative
Jan 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…have just been incredible, and they've really wanted this—designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And for some reason, they didn't want to…
Remarks in Clive, Iowa
Jan 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Iowa 1 time
…We've got to do better than that. And I've designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Big deal. And despite the strong efforts of…
Address to the Nation on the Economy
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 1 time
…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 so…
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
…before I took office, our southern border was surrendered to criminals, drug cartels, human traffickers, and child smugglers. Our entire Southwest border on the Mexican…
…servicemembers, we've stopped the invasion in its tracks, and we're dismantling the cartels very rapidly. And they are being declared enemies of the United States…
…border security efforts is just the beginning. We're also designating the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a big deal from a legal standpoint and…
Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 2 times
…On day one, I signed an Executive order to designate the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Had a big—we had a big, strong…
…a safe community. It's really made unbelievable progress. And we're blowing up cartel terrorists and—we're blowing them up—linked to the Maduro regime in…
Remarks to United States Servicemembers With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in Yokosuko, Japan
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 3 times
…And with the help of our warfighters, were decimating the savage drug cartels that poison our people. Two hundred thousand people, maybe more than that…
…Twenty-five thousand people for each boat. For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America, and at long last, we're finally waging…
Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With the Homeland Security Task Force and an Exchange With Reporters
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 26 times
…recent weeks to arrest, prosecute, and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from American soil. And the people gathered around this table are the…
…this year, I signed an Executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and savage transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It was my honor…
…and local partners to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating the cartel presence in America once and for all. And the results are—and…
Remarks on the Navy 250 Celebration at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 1 time
…In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that? And you…
Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…needed focus on defeating threats in the western hemisphere. Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and…
…in combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that. And we've put them—a lot…
Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 3 times
…economy. Joe Biden's policies empowered murderous gangs, human smugglers, child traffickers, drug cartels, and prisoners—prisoners from all over the world. The previous administration also…
…did this. To protect our citizens, I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels as—and you see this, and you see it happening right before…
…kill hundreds of thousands of people. I've also designated multiple savage drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations, along with two bloodthirsty transnational gangs—probably the…
Remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founders Dinner in Mount Vernon, Virginia
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…over. We designated Tren de Aragua, MS–13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which nobody else did. And we're hitting them…
Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Restoring Law and Order in Memphis, Tennessee
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 1 time
…they do come by land. And you know what? We're telling the cartels right now, we're going to be stopping them too. When they come…
Remarks Prior to a Signing Ceremony With President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…about it later today. Today. Today. We'll give you a location today. Cartels where? Well, Latin America's got a lot of cartels. They've got a…
Remarks on Signing the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act and Exchange With Reporters
Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so much about for so many years…
…traffickers, networks, and everything else on the planet Earth, allowing foreign drug cartels to carve out a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing…
…we declared an all-out war on the dealers, smugglers, traffickers, and cartels. Within moments of taking office, I deployed the U.S. military to our…
Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on the "Alligator Alcatraz" Migrant Detention Facility and an Exchange With Reporters in Ochopee, Florida
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels, which are coming back into our country. And we are—we got…
Remarks on the United States Supreme Court Decision on Nationwide Injunctions From Lower Federal Courts and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…they used birthright citizenship— some of the worst people, some of the cartels—to get people into our country, just so you know. And, again…
…looking at birthright citizenship wrong for years." But they've used it. The cartels have used birthright citizenship to get very bad people in. And what…
Remarks in Warren, Michigan
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…couldn't happen. The last administration engineered a massive border invasion, allowing gangs, cartels, and terrorists to infiltrate our communities and rape and murder our citizens…
…and, frankly, people from mental institutions. We've designated six murderous Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organization. We have also designated two bloodthirsty transnational gangs…
…paid nothing. We got Mexico to turn over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country. And we're charging Mexico and Canada and China…
Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…they become citizens, and they pay a lot of money to different cartels and others. It's all about slavery. And if you look at it…
Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we officially designated Tren de Aragua, MS–13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And thanks to the Supreme Court yesterday—and…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Alina Habba as Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and she'll persecute [prosecute] human traffickers, gang members, illegal aliens, and criminal cartels to the fullest extent of the law. And between Pam and Alina…
Remarks at the Department of Justice
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…the toughest gang, they say, in the world—and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. That's a big deal. Nobody wanted to do…
…Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including the depraved kingpin charged with the 1985 murder of DEA…
…smart and very vicious people. You know, some of those businesses, those cartels are run better than any business in America. They say they're run…
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…designated this gang, along with MS–13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations. They are now officially in the same category…
…agent were patrolling by the Rio Grande, near an area known as Cartel Island—doesn't sound too nice to me—when heavily armed gunmen started…
…the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture, and exercise total control—they have total control…
Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we're not playing games, and just this week, I officially designated bloodthirsty cartels and murderous gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, something which Biden didn't want…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami Beach, Florida
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…people that—you know, they have no idea the viciousness of these cartels and these people. And they're smarts. I mean, they're very smart, tough…
Remarks Following a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…relationship with Mexico. But I think Mexico is largely run by the cartels, and that's a sad thing to say. And if they wanted help…
…Mexico for years now, but now, especially, it's—it's run by the cartels. And they've allowed millions of people to come into our country from…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Pamela J. Bondi as Attorney General
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…they didn't have what they were supposed to have. Destroying the terrorist cartels is going to be a very big priority for Pam. And that…
Remarks at a House Republican Conference Dinner in Miami, Florida
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Last week, I also signed an order that will designate a—the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. That's a very big designation. And, as we…
Remarks on the National Economy in Las Vegas, Nevada
Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…from which they came. I signed an order that will designate the cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations." It's a big deal. That's a big deal…
Inaugural Address
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Under the orders I sign today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of…