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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 Oct 1, 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.

“Iran” said in 288 of 667 transcripts, 1,402 times.

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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

  1. …Netanyahu has been, obviously, a very good one. Look, we took out Iran. We wiped out—with that plane right there, we wiped out—the…
  2. …would have never been able to do that if—for instance, if Iran—if we didn't—with that B–2 bomber, right there on the…
  3. …they did. Atomic Energy Commission confirmed it. So did—actually, so did Iran confirm it. They got knocked to hell. But if we didn't knock…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 12 times

  1. …a job, and that made peace possible, because everybody was afraid of Iran, and now they're not afraid of Iran anymore. And Iran would like…
  2. …And the people that have seen the site said obliterated. And frankly, Iran said it was obliterated. And to show you how accurate it was…
  3. …like, gone-zo. It's—one person actually used the term "obliterated," but Iran actually said that they probably can never go there again. They can…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 7 times

  1. …than they were prior to us taking out the nuclear capability of Iran. You know, Iran has gone down many, many steps in terms of…
  2. …bully of the Middle East anymore. And Iraq was being bullied by Iran, yes. We had a President that thought it was brilliant to blow…
  3. …a sudden, instead of having a power that was basically equal to Iran, they had Iran ruling the Middle East for a long period of…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 6 times

  1. …we've done a great job in wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else could have done that. No other President would have done…
  2. …22 years—they said, "Our predecessors and us practiced the attack on Iran, but no President ever gave us the go-ahead." Three times a…
  3. …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 I…

Remarks at McDonald's Impact Summit 2025

Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 5 times

  1. …saw that with the way we took out the nuclear capability of Iran, with those gorgeous B–2 bombers. They flew in there, and they…
  2. …Room that you wouldn't believe. And they said, "Sir, they have entered Iran airspace." All of a sudden, you see da-da-da-da-da…
  3. …they flew 37 hours flawlessly. Now, compare that to the Jimmy Carter Iran situation, with the helicopters crashing and the this and—oh, what a…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to West Palm Beach, Florida

Nov 14, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …missiles. You saw that when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. Know—you know, for 22 years they wanted to do that. No…
  2. …We did it. And Iran is a different place. By the way, Iran wants to negotiate a deal too. Everybody wants to negotiate with us…
  3. …shortly. We've had tremendous interest in the Abraham Accords since we put Iran out of business. Okay? Thank you much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you

Remarks at a Veterans Day Ceremony in Arlington, Virginia

Nov 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Veterans Day address 2 times

  1. …a real general. And congratulations on wiping out the nuclear capability of Iran in about a matter of seconds, once they got there. They traveled…
  2. …much, what a job they did—that, in an instant, completely obliterated Iran's nuclear capability of which we have just ordered, I have say, many…

Remarks at a Working Dinner With Leaders of Central Asian Countries and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts dinner with Central Asian Countries 6 times

  1. …wanted to come in, but they couldn't because of the status of Iran. When Iran had a possibility of nuclear weapons, which they do not…
  2. …had a hard time going against that. I understand that. Now that Iran has been very much decimated in terms of their nuclear and in…
  3. …we took the sanctions off to give them a chance. And frankly, Iran has been asking if the sanctions could be lifted. Iran has got…

Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida

Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 2 times

  1. …know, the key was when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. All of a sudden, everybody said, "Wow, that was nice." They've been…
  2. …know what? Tariffs—without tariffs, that would have never happened. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Cambodia and Thailand. All of…

The President's News Conference

Oct 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 11 times

  1. …there wouldn't be peace. If we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran, that deal would have never happened for two reasons. The Arab nations…
  2. …to do it, because you have a very powerful—at that time—Iran is not powerful anymore, between what we—what Israel and us did…
  3. …and missiles also going into Israel. But between what we did to Iran that way, with the, you know, "conventional," we will call it, and…

Remarks During a Meeting With President Abdelfattah Said Elsisi of Egypt and an Exchange With Reporters in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Oct 13, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …important role. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Right. No, not Iran. But I think Iran will come along. They've been battered and bruised…
  2. …the sanctions off." We're going to end up with peace. I think Iran is going to be fine. I know so many Iranian people. They're…
  3. …all come together. Every country has come together. And by the way, Iran did put out a statement, you know, that they support this deal…

Remarks to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel

Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 17 times

  1. …with you. Loved it. They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this…
  2. …other guys love being on television." So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. And that's…
  3. …wouldn't feel comfortable making the deal that we have now—right?—if Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Lod, Israel

Oct 12, 2025 Other 7 times

  1. …and he begged that you not do what they were doing with Iran? You remember that, right? Begged them. And they wouldn't even listen to…
  2. …get along, and they had the opposite, because Biden and Obama backed Iran. And just so, when you talk about a thing like that, if…
  3. …Iran, this wouldn't have worked. And had we not taken out the Iran nuclear facility and we made the same deal, it would have a…

Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 6 times

  1. …just everything came together. I think the attack was very important on Iran, because, let's say that didn't happen. They'd probably, by now, have a…
  2. …dark cloud over it, and it wouldn't be the same thing. So Iran is different, but Iran wants to work on peace now, they've informed…
  3. …it's a great thing. So, we appreciate that, and we'll work with Iran. As you know, we have major sanctions on Iran and lots of…

Remarks on the Navy 250 Celebration at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia

Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times

  1. …most spectacular military feats the world has ever seen: the obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty…
  2. …a submarine. Every one of them hit too. So I would say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon…
  3. …22 years they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. He said, "But it was only when you came along that we…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …of violence, from the horrible plague that's taking place from within. The Iran nuclear power, the Iran—all of the—the great power that we…
  2. …war, we went 14 for 14. We had 14—this is with Iran. We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out…

Remarks With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel Announcing a Cease-Fire Proposal Between Hamas and Israel

Sep 29, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump and Netanyahu Press Conference, Trump meets Netanyahu 6 times

  1. …I have just concluded an important meeting on many vital issues, including Iran, trade, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, and, most importantly, we discussed…
  2. …this will also lead to packing them. And who knows? Maybe even Iran can get in there. I hope. We expect—we hope we're going…
  3. …a member. I long ago said, "I'll bet you at some point Iran will be a member of the Accords." And little did I realize…

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 7 times

  1. …Rwanda—a vicious, violent war that was; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all of them…
  2. …made containing these threats a top priority, starting with the nation of Iran. My position is very simple. The world's number-one sponsor of terror…
  3. …extended a pledge of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran's nuclear program. The regime's answer was to continue their constant threats to…

Remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founders Dinner in Mount Vernon, Virginia

Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …that. We have—let's see, Cambodia, Armenia. We have Kosovo-Serbia, Israel-Iran, Egypt-Ethiopia. That's a beauty. They built a little dam in Ethiopia…
  2. …that: India- Pakistan, Thailand-Cambodia, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. Right? We stopped all of…
  3. …get it done one way or the other. But I also obliterated Iran's nuclear hopes by totally annihilating their enriched uranium. And I'll tell you…

Remarks on Signing the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act and Executive Orders and Announcing the 2026 Group of Twenty (G-20) Nations Summit in Miami, Florida, and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …that one maybe even more than an attack, what he did with Iran. You saw the success of that operation. It was perfect. In fact…
  2. …a perfect attack, and it knocked out any possible nuclear capability for Iran, which nobody wanted to see, and we weren't going to put up…

Remarks on Signing Executive Orders To Reduce Crime and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …couple, and we're not including in there the—what we did with Iran, stopping their nuclear play. They would have had—within a month or…
  2. …ahead, please. Yes. Well, look at the mission you just accomplished with Iran. Thirty-six hours back and forth. Flawless. Every bomb hit its target…

Remarks on National Purple Heart Day

Aug 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …that's what happened. Great job. And he did an incredible job in Iran. I want to thank you very much. Great job, General. Deputy Secretary…

Remarks on Domestic Investment by Apple Incorporated and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …this one. You know, we've solved five wars. Plus, add to that Iran, where we wiped out their nuclear capacity for weapons. They would have…
  2. …please. Well, we have stopped wars in the Middle East by stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon. And they are—they're—you know, they…
  3. …in the Middle East. If you think about what we did with Iran, Iran was the perpetrator of hate, a very evil place, and I…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …you people didn't cover it very well. Yes, please. Go ahead. Well, Iran has been acting very badly. They were decimated. Their nuclear capability, that…
  2. …again, but they haven't been saying the right thing. I will say, Iran has not been saying the right thing. They have not been speaking…

Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …Well, I think Israel can do a lot. I will say that Iran, I think, interjected themselves in this last negotiation. Can you imagine? The…
  2. …that. We will do that gladly—openly and gladly. They've been saying—Iran has been sending out bad signals, I'll tell you. For a country…
  3. …called me. He wanted to know if I could help him with Iran. I said: "No, I don't need your help with Iran. I need…