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May 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 12 times
…have to have a great country. We have to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. All of the things that you see… …for so hard. And it's always tough. You know, we're negotiating with Iran , and then you have the Democrats—I call them the "Dumocrats"—putting… …they've had, for the first time in almost 47 years—you know, Iran's been the bully of the Middle East for 47 years. I mean…
May 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Healthcare Affordability Event 8 times
…possibly for a little while, because we've had very big discussions with Iran , and we'll see what they amount to. I was asked by Saudi… …do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran , I think—and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also… …wanted to do, but we have no choice because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Yes. Please, go ahead. Yes. Well, it's been…
May 15, 2026 Other 10 times
…very much what they're doing. We talked about Taiwan. We talked about Iran a lot. And I think we have a very good understanding on… …heard him out. I have a lot of respect for him. On Iran , it's very interesting. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon… …start"—I don't want to say that. I can only say that Iran —I could say this with very, very strong conviction: Iran will never…
May 15, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds Bilateral Tea with the President of China 2 times
…one. We've really done some wonderful things, I believe. We did discuss Iran . We feel very similar on Iran. We want that to end, and…
May 12, 2026 Other 14 times
…he does, no. No, I don't think we need any help with Iran . We'll win it one way or the other. We'll win it—— We'll… …it, I would've taken that all day long, because it's very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They will not have a nuclear weapon… …which, frankly, surprised a lot of people. It's a very simple message: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't have a nuclear weapon…
May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts the Indiana University National Football Champions 1 time
…did. We had to make an excursion to the beautiful country of Iran . We didn't want to let them have a nuclear weapon. And we…
May 8, 2026 Other 1 time
…to that. No. Not at all. I think we're doing very well. Iran is seeming to be coming along very well. Militarily, very good. We'll…
May 7, 2026 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…Somebody said, "What's your plan?" I said, "The plan is very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, it cannot have a nuclear bomb, and… …you guys feel differently. Now, these guys, I think, will say that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Wouldn't you say? We wouldn't feel very… …that's right. We—love you guys. We just—said—do you agree? ——Iran cannot have—love that guy. Secretary Mullin. Did you know they're all…
May 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…fighters now, I think, because—— I mean, they want to ask about Iran and a couple of other things. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I… …Now it's only a question of—look, if we left right now—Iran —it would take them 20 years to rebuild. You would call that… …to do this, but we have to make an excursion down to Iran because we can't let them have a nuclear—a nuclear weapon." Look…
May 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Military Mother's Day Event 3 times
…as well, I would say. Larger, but we're doing very well in Iran . It's going very smoothly, and we'll see what happens. They want to… …but that's okay, in whatever it is. Because in the case of Iran , we're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we're…
May 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs a proclamation 9 times
…we're in a little skirmish—military. I call it a "skirmish" because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know it. They expressed it… …was too bad, but I had to do it: We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You might be too young for this. I… …take a hit because we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon." They would have had a nuclear weapon…
May 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Small Business Summit 3 times
…with this military operation. Call it whatever you want. We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. We hit all new highs, and I said… …you know, it's interesting. They did a poll on the war with Iran , and they said only 32 percent of the people like it. Well… …President Trump." Well, when you explain it like, "Is it okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon," it wouldn't be 32 percent. But even…
May 2, 2026 Other 1 time
…regard to just about everything, but doing very well with regard to Iran . Again, they want to make a deal. They're decimated. They're having a…
May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump joins The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner 8 times
…with some quite brutal people right now in the lovely country of Iran . They are very brutal. And I will tell you, we're doing very… …of a sudden you hear: "Yes, yes. We are going back to Iran . We are going back." So they turned it around. It takes 10… …pirates. But we're not playing games. Because, you know, for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around. They're the bully of the Middle East…
May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump say delivers remarks at The Villages 5 times
…getting. And you stand up when I talk about "you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon." We can't. But I did something that was… …to take a little journey down to a beautiful country known as Iran , and we have to make sure that they don't have a nuclear… …anything like it. And frankly, we're doing just about as well in Iran . But I don't like talking about it until the jobs are finished…
May 1, 2026 Other 9 times
…I don't—I'm not satisfied with it. So we'll see what happens. Iran wants to make a deal because they have no military left, essentially… …tremendous—they're having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran . The leadership is very disjointed. It's got two to three groups, maybe… …with Spain. And they've done—they don't—they feel it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Anybody that feels it's okay for Iran…
Apr 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 19 times
…war. Would you rather have—a military operation, where, really—I mean, Iran is dying to make a deal. I can only tell you that… …&P, I said to myself: "We've got to do something about Iran . They want to have a nuclear weapon. You can't let them have… …a fire, and the fire's taking place in the lovely country of Iran , and they want to have a nuclear weapon." And if we didn't…
Apr 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump meets with the Artemis II Astronauts 6 times
…no. I talked about Ukraine, and I talked a little bit about Iran . I talked about a few different subjects, mostly about Ukraine. And we… …we've going to have that. Look, we—we're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we've knocked out their navy. We've knocked… …things on Ukraine, and we also wanted them to do things with Iran . And on Ukraine, they're very much involved, but they didn't do things…
Apr 25, 2026 Press conference 4 times
…it because we have no choice. We can't let—as an example, Iran , we can't let them get a nuclear weapon. That will—everything will… …And I said: "We're going to have to make a journey to Iran . They—they're going to have a nuclear weapon if we don't do… …them out. I terminated, in the first term, the Obama agreement, the Iran nuclear agreement, which was a disaster. That was a road to a…
Apr 25, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a nuclear weapon. Very simple. Look, that whole deal is not complicated. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. I haven't even thought about…
Apr 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…thing to get this worked out, simultaneously, with what we're doing in Iran . And I'd like to start by just asking J.D., our Vice President… …a little bit of a detour. And we have to go to Iran and make sure they don't have a nuclear weapon." We had just… …doing it, it's a very foolish thing to do. Just like for Iran to shoot at Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., and Qatar, and Kuwait, Bahrain—all…
Apr 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Health Care Affordability Event 5 times
…a face that got blown to pieces, most likely it was from Iran . That was Soleimani, who I killed. Soleimani loved the roadside bomb. He… …you call it—I mean, what—the deal that he did, the Iran nuclear deal, was so bad. It gave them a road to a… …And I will tell you—I deal with them: You cannot give Iran a nuclear weapon. This is all about a nuclear weapon. They cannot…
Apr 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…no arms, a face that's been smashed, that was Soleimani. That was Iran that did that. So we have a much different view on it…
Apr 17, 2026 Other 12 times
…it seems to be going very well in the Middle East with Iran . We'll know over a little period of time. We're negotiating over the… …these things have been negotiated and agreed to. Having to do with Iran . No, but you'll hear about it. But I just think it's something… …is going to be very beneficial, and the main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let Iran have a…
Apr 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at Turning Point USA 15 times
…I'll tell you about a little—would anybody like to hear about Iran a little bit? You know, this was scheduled a long time ago… …This will be a great and brilliant day for the world, because Iran has just announced that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open and… …we? Will remain in full force and effect as it pertains to Iran until such time as our transaction with Iran is 100-percent complete…
Apr 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a roundtable on No Tax on Tips 6 times
…that we're doing very well. And I will say the war in Iran is going along swimmingly. We can do whatever we want. And it… …By the way, we had to do a little journey down to Iran . And I didn't want to do that, but we had to because… …our little diversion—despite our little diversion to the lovely country of Iran —lovely place. But we had to do that, because otherwise bad things…
Apr 16, 2026 Other 30 times
…Pope understands—very, very important; it'd be nice not to say it—Iran killed 42,000 people that were totally unarmed. They were protesters. Iran… …with respect to that, having to do with the whole situation on Iran . The blockade is amazing. It's holding up very strong, very powerfully, and… …a lot of progress in that. But the Pope has to understand Iran —very simple—Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The world would be…
Apr 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump addresses the nation 9 times
…It's over the fact that they will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran —are you marking it down? Iran will not have a nuclear weapon… …they don't agree, there's no deal. There will never be a deal. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we're going to get the… …wrong. He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran . And you cannot have a nuclear Iran. Pope Leo would not be…
Apr 12, 2026 Other 5 times
…That will be 10 o'clock tomorrow. Other nations are working so that Iran will not be able to sell oil, and that will be very… …and we're very proud of them—the two pilots. Yes. I think Iran is in very bad shape. I think they're very desperate. We had… …that lasted 21 hours. We understand the situation better than anybody, and Iran's in very bad shape. And just so you understand, Iran will not…
Apr 6, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump holds a news conference 33 times
…American F–15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well, well… …low, but there are also certain advantages. And in broad daylight over Iran , for 7 hours, at times facing very, very heavy enemy fire—we… …top of everything else, they told the communities, actually, with—inside of Iran —the people of Iran—they were given a tremendous incentive to find…
Apr 6, 2026 Other 5 times
…trying for a long time. I stopped them with the Obama horrible Iran nuclear deal. I stopped him in a lot of different ways. Got… …down in war and they're in tough territory—Vietnam and places like Iran , that are tough. They know how to fight. They're nasty. Very rarely… …And that's—that was central, right there. That was central. That was Iran -plus. And when planes go down in territories—whether it's Vietnam or…
Apr 6, 2026 Other 7 times
…lunatics. The people that we're negotiating with now in—on behalf of Iran are much more reasonable. You can call it what you want, but… …doing it right now. They're foolish, because the war's about one thing: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Had we not broken the Barack Hussein… …plenty of money. And I'd also take care of the people of Iran much better than they've been taken care of. It's been a horrible…
Apr 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…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…
Apr 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony 23 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 31, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 4 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 7 times
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… …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… …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…
Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the FII PRIORITY Summit 24 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 27, 2026 Other 2 times
…don't want that, and that's what it's all about. Thank you. On Iran , they are being decimated. They are talking—we are talking now. They…
Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to farmers 1 time
…away right now. And by the way, we're doing really well in Iran , just so you understand. You know? I mean, how good is our…
Mar 26, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 11 times
…are absolutely obliterating them. Over the past 3 weeks, we've been hitting Iran's military capabilities at a level that few people have ever seen before… …the—Barack Hussein Obama, what he did where he gave them the Iran nuclear deal, gave them free will toward a nuclear weapon. Basically, he… …choose heavy sides. They didn't want to, because people were concerned with Iran . In other words, there was a big black cloud over the Middle…
Mar 25, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers Remarks at the NRCC Annual Fundraising Dinner 12 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts DHS swearing-in ceremony 5 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable 12 times
…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… …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… …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…
Mar 23, 2026 Other 9 times
…the enriched uranium. We're—if this happens, it's a great start for Iran to build itself back. And it's everything that we want. And it's… …oil in the system as possible. And we don't even know if Iran gets that money. Frankly, I think it's very hard for them to… …see it go to the system. Any small amount of money that Iran gets, it's not going to have any difference in this war. But…
Mar 20, 2026 Other 1 time
…we have the greatest equipment in the world, and we are decimating Iran . It's about time. And frankly, it should have been done long before…
Mar 20, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Commander in Chief Trophy Presentation 1 time
…I want to begin by just saying we're doing extremely well in Iran . The difference between them and us is they had a navy 2…
Mar 19, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Bilateral Meeting with Japan 5 times
…85. We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran and I said, "I hate to make this excursion, but we're going… …agrees with me on this. She considers it to be terrible what Iran did. I think every country does—just about every country does. Iran… …for a lot of reasons beyond even what we're talking about in Iran . When—this is a very volatile world, and the military equipment, the…
Mar 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…war is proceeding very, very strongly. We're doing very, very well on Iran —knocking the hell out of them, and you have to do that… …lives destroyed, 95-percent chance it was—it came right out of Iran . They loved that bomb. They loved that bomb. And the father of…
Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 24 times
…it, actually. Very important that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran , and we've done that very strongly, very powerfully. We've wiped out their… …did a great thing by knocking them out. Nobody wants to have Iran —or anybody—but nobody wants to have Iran with a nuclear—because… …along with us. It's been a very strong collaboration. I was against Iran long before I even thought about Israel being against Iran. I was…
Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 15 times
…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… …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… …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…