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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.

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Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2025 Other 2 times

  1. …Think of it. We were losing billions of dollars a day under Biden, and other Presidents, frankly. But under Biden, it got really worse. China…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Paul S. Atkins as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …the SEC and stop the lawless enforcement practices that occurred during the Biden administration. They were vicious people. They were vicious and horrible for our…
  2. …you know, we were losing $5 billion a day when—during the Biden administration, during that last year. It was a horror show, what they…
  3. …were having hundreds of thousands of people a month come in under Biden, and they came in from prisons. They came in from mental institutions…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Mehmet Oz as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …Nobody is playing me. I'm trying to help. You know, this was Biden's war. By the way, by me getting involved, you know, they'll say…
  2. …and the people of this country want those people out. Because what Biden did and his—I don't know if he did it. I'm not…
  3. …they weren't spending it to terrorist organizations because they had none. When Biden came in, he took all the sanctions off. China wasn't allowed to…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …they basically took away your fishing rights. Yes. Was that Obama and Biden? It's so sad. It's so crazy. It's too bad they won't pick…
  2. …this for thousands of years in this area—— ——and then along comes Biden and Obama, and they say you can't do it anymore, right? Yes…
  3. …You've seen that signature, and I don't use autopen, you know? Like Biden—Biden uses autopen. I think we ought to—— Executive Director Simonds. Thank…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …doing a fantastic job of getting criminals out of this country who Biden allowed into the country—hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers, and drug…
  2. …were inundated by millions of people, many millions of people, during the Biden administration. They say 21 million. And a big percentage of those are…
  3. …And we took them because we had an incompetent administration called the Biden administration. And to think what they've done to our country. And I…

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

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 13 times

  1. …wrong. Yes, please. Yes. The mistake was letting the war happen. If Biden were competent and if Zelenskyy were competent—and I—don't know that…
  2. …was no way that war should have been allowed to happen, and Biden should have stopped it. And you take a look at Putin—I'm…
  3. …had to do is lower oil prices. If you lowered oil prices—Biden kept the prices so high, because he—made it impossible to get…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Apr 13, 2025 Other 7 times

  1. …weeks ago—last week, actually, five people came in. Five. And under Biden, it was 500,000 people came in. What they've done to our…
  2. …I believe it was—look, you got to ask them. This is Biden's war. This is not my war. I've been here for a very…
  3. …that war would never have taken place. But remember this: This is Biden's war. I'm just trying to get it stopped so that we can…

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

Apr 11, 2025 Other 3 times

  1. …soul. And I took—I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test. And I don't know what to tell…
  2. …done—I've got nothing wrong. That's what the American people want, right? Biden refused to take it. Kamala refused to take it. I think most…
  3. …recently, about how do you let people pour into our country like Biden allowed to happen? That's a big focus. We now have the best…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …area where they stood. Massive. And I've looked at that. During the Biden administration, you couldn't see a piece of that concrete, there were so…
  2. …already have. Look, we're making $2 billion a day now, and during Biden, we were losing $3 billion a day. Biden was a disaster. He…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …it. It's a big deal. I did it in the first administration. Biden came in on his, like, first week, and he had no idea…
  2. …of the United States, and I would be willing to bet that Biden didn't know—probably didn't know anything about any of it. Very dangerous…
  3. …there were nine people—and hundreds of thousands 2 years ago with Biden, and we had nine. We had it down to nine, and they…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …gave me a little bit of a thing. And it's true. Under Biden, they soared like double, triple, quadruple. You couldn't even get them. They…
  2. …to see you as my enemy." I closed Nord Stream 2. When Biden got in, he opened it up immediately. It serviced all of Europe…
  3. …have a big—the hardest thing I had to do with Joe Biden is the nickname. Do I call him "Sleepy Joe" or "Crooked Joe…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …action to help American workers, miners, families, and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean coal once and for all. And it wasn't…
  2. …leading countries, are using it—some exclusively. For 4 long years, Joe Biden and congressional Democrats tried to abolish the American coal industry. They did…
  3. …got off. Those are the ones that didn't have the problems. The Biden energy policy was to put America last. "We want to be last…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …insane in our country too. And this was all done by the Biden administration, and it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard…
  2. …have a great military. There's no military like our military. And despite Biden having given a lot but never—but nevertheless, a pretty small piece…
  3. …badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy. It was also their bad spending, but energy, because they…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Apr 6, 2025 Other 5 times

  1. …are coming into our country at levels that we've never seen before. Biden had nothing coming in. He was—this was a dead company with…
  2. …started. And there was—we had no inflation. Who had inflation was Biden. Biden had the worst inflation in the history of our country. I…
  3. …we've ever had. Yes, sure. It's really sad when you think that Biden allowed millions of people to come in, and if they find one…

Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports

Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …American worker, and we are finally putting America first. In Sleepy Joe Biden's last year in office, the United States hemorrhaged 100,000 manufacturing jobs…
  2. …so much of it slipped away over the last 4 years under Biden. I campaigned on this policy throughout last year. And today that promise…
  3. …President, and yet they paid hundreds of billions. So much so that Biden couldn't do anything. They wanted to try and terminate it, because he…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …get paid back the money that they gave, and we don't, because Biden is an incompetent President, and he should have asked for rare earth…
  2. …We could be in for $350 billion. They have no idea because Biden wasn't a good bookkeeper, except for himself. And what happens is, we…
  3. …as you know, for Austin for years. The—I don't know about Biden. I don't think Biden was looking for anything, but we were. And…

Remarks at the Iftar Dinner

Mar 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …now we're going to start filling them out. Because, as you know, Biden did nothing to fill them out. He did absolutely—we had the…
  2. …What's the problem with eggs?" But the problem with eggs was Joe Biden. That was the problem. He let him get out of control. And…

Remarks on Signing the Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …like the chipmaking process. Your CHIP bill was a disaster, done by Biden. All he does is give tremendous amounts of— billions of dollars to…
  2. …about. This is something that should have been done by Sleepy Joe Biden, but he was asleep at the wheel, other than when it came…
  3. …within Yemen, the Houthis. And this should have been done by Joe Biden, and it wasn't. And that's caused this world a lot of damage…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …of eggs. Eggs were through the roof. You've got to see the Biden chart. It's, like, a rocket ship. And Trump is, like, this way…
  2. …secret. I want to find out. But the chart looks great. It's Biden like this. And then we're like this. But we also—by the…
  3. …now. But on day one, we're ending the inflation nightmare that Joe Biden created and caused but—just by his spending. Two things: his spending…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and Meeting With United States Ambassadorial Nominees and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …of themselves, and so should the Department of Justice, and so should Biden. Okay. And Andrew Weissmann is the main culprit—— ——with respect to this…
  2. …in the meantime, the crime rate has gone through the roof. Under Biden, it was through the roof. It's starting to come down, but we're…
  3. …been killed. This should have been done a long time ago by Biden, but Biden was an incompetent President. He couldn't do anything. He wouldn't…

Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …in—it was called unforced error. It—they were let in by Biden—incompetently let in—and let in by the millions, actually. Twenty-one…
  2. …a week. And also, the United States is—has paid, because of Biden, $350 billion on a war that should have never happened. If we…
  3. …ask: Did he have the authority to allow millions of people? Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable—have open borders where…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters During a Tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 17, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. …we're going to see how it all works out. This was Joe Biden's deal. This isn't Trump's deal. This is Joe Biden's deal. He gave…
  2. …they should actually have much more in it than us. But Joe Biden was grossly incompetent, and it's a shame what they did. Three hundred…
  3. …that with many. I would say if there are 18 with Hunter Biden, that will be something I'll look at this afternoon. Okay? I just…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 16, 2025 Other 7 times

  1. …ask the lawyers. Yes. Well, this is a time of war, because Biden allowed millions of people—many of them criminals, many of them—at…
  2. …came out. They're walking our streets. We have thousands of murderers that Biden and his incompetence—he—first of all, he's grossly incompetent—but that…
  3. …they charge us and we don't charge them. It's foolish Presidents in—Biden, but others also. In all fairness, look, Biden is the worst President…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times

  1. …remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from hell came from Russia when they knew it came right…
  2. …never been seen before. And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their cronies. To do the building of the last…
  3. …the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell. We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …they're right there. And yet, we're in for $350 billion because of Biden, and they're in for $100 billion. So it's a big difference, and…
  2. …They should equalize. They should have—it should have never happened, where Biden just gave his money away. Now, as you know, we're—we have…
  3. …with? Very nice. That's good. That's good. Many of them. Yes. No, Biden fudged the numbers. The numbers were totally fake, and he gave fake…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 7 times

  1. …at number 37, 38, 39, and 40. And recently, they hit—during Biden's last few days, they hit last. So they were number 40. And…
  2. …This is a situation that could lead to World War III, and Biden should have never let it happen. Incompetence allowed this to happen. This…
  3. …Barack Hussein Obama, right? They're trying to take the whole thing from Biden. They're going for the whole ball of wax. Who was the only…

Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …I could have done it the easy way. I could have coasted. Biden left us a mess. He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high cost…
  2. …going to get killed—lots of people. Sure. Absolutely. No, I think Biden gave us a horrible economy. He gave us horrible inflation, and I…
  3. …you look at what's happened there: We caught the major terrorist, which Biden wouldn't have caught. Why didn't he catch him? I caught him. Five…

Remarks at the White House Digital Assets Summit

Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …they not sold them. But they did sell them, mostly during the Biden administration, and not a good—not a good thing to have done…
  2. …bureaucracy's war on crypto, which was really going on pretty wildly during Biden, until the election came about. About 5 months before the election, he…

Remarks on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on the Employment Situation in February and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …deal. That's what you want to hear. During the last year, the Biden administration saw a loss of more than 110,000 manufacturing jobs, or…
  2. …lost more than 27,000 auto jobs in the final year of Biden. These are also high-paying jobs. These are very prime jobs. The…
  3. …is presiding over a brandnew domestic manufacturing boom after major collapse under Biden. It was a collapse. All he did is keep adding new Government…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …unbelievable deal with China—$50 billion in purchases. And we're doing great. Biden, however, when he came in, he never—they never enforced that deal…
  2. …me later. Maybe I shouldn't do this interview. I should be like Biden, not do any interviews. That's great. Women, we love you. Thank you…
  3. …to know if we could just continue. They said, without us—look, Biden wasn't able to get anybody out. We came along, and they started…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times

  1. …chose not to come. Much easier that way. In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst President in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of…
  2. …from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council. We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally…
  3. …every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again. Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg…

Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …think it's—look, it's a great deal for us, because, you know, Biden very, very, foolishly—stupidly, frankly—gave $300 billion and—$350 billion, more…
  2. …Europe, I'm saying they're just—they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden, because Joe Biden didn't have a clue. He just gave money hand…
  3. …back to Bush, you go back to Obama, and go back to Biden— they took a lot. The only one they didn't get—you know…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 28, 2025 Meeting 13 times

  1. …of very good conversations. I will say, until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever. They didn't speak to anybody. They…
  2. …want to—this is a tremendous amount of money. And what the Biden administration did was terrible. They were giving money, but he had no…
  3. …had, and we're treating—you know, our country is now treated fairly. Biden didn't do that. Biden—he didn't know what the hell he was…

The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom

Feb 27, 2025 Press conference 2 times

  1. …to be paid back, and we didn't have that honor under the Biden administration. He sent money—would just send it, money after money after…
  2. …levels that nobody has really ever seen before. And especially under the Biden administration, they really took advantage of the United States. I put massive…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …money back, and now we'll get our money back also. But under Biden, you wouldn't have done that. Biden did a terrible job, I have…
  2. …their money back by giving money. We don't get the money back. Biden made a deal. He put in $350 billion, and I thought it…
  3. …It's just not going to happen. That's what started this whole thing. Biden said that, and, all of a sudden, the guns started. That was…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …it here, because a lot of that was put back on by Biden. But the biggest complaint is the fact that they can't have any…
  2. …I don't want to have to pay any more money, because we've— Biden has spent $350 billion without any chance of getting it back. Now…
  3. …be able to take advantage of us. They—what they did to Biden was—he didn't know what was happening. He didn't know what he…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …in health care. It takes a little while to kick in. But Biden ended it immediately upon coming in, which was a terrible travesty, in…
  2. …even if you look at polling, they're very happy because, you know, Biden was throwing money around like it's cotton candy, and it's a very…
  3. …remember the famous Javelins? That was me. That wasn't Obama. It wasn't Biden. It wasn't anybody else. It was me. And they wiped out a…

Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 16 times

  1. …addicted. They were sending them all into our ridiculous and very stupid Biden open border. Our border czar was Kamala. Haven't said that name in…
  2. …candidates. They said, "Who did you run against?" Well, we ran against Biden, and we ran against Kamala Harris. But illegal border crossings now have…
  3. …we lost over a trillion dollars to China this last year under Biden. Crooked Joe Biden. What do we like better: Crooked Joe or Sleepy…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Howard W. Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …know, Europe is also doing it in the form of a loan. Biden just gave them money. There was no loan, there was no security…
  2. …have a big, beautiful ocean in between. But it does affect—and Biden should have never gotten us into this mess. We had an incompetent…
  3. …signed long before we went in. This should have been signed by Biden. But Biden didn't know too much about what he was doing. The…