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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.

“Oil” said in 44 of 109 transcripts, 255 times.

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Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaydi of Iraq and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 14, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq 9 times

  1. …be discussing that a little bit with you. But they have tremendous oil reserves. They have tremendous potential wealth, and they have tremendous wealth—not…
  2. …States. And we have partnerships. Chris was just saying we have tremendous oil partnerships all of a sudden being formed over the last short period…
  3. …very—it's a big operation. And what we do have is the oil companies are all going in now, and they're doing partnerships with Iraq…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ahmad Husayn al-Shara' of Syria and an Exchange With Reporters in Ankara, Turkey

Jul 8, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds Bilateral meetings in Turkey 13 times

  1. …There's something wrong with them. But when we did this, we thought oil would go much higher, and it didn't go very high, and now…
  2. …think it's going to lift it a lot at all. I think oil is coming down. There's tremendous amounts of oil. Scott, what would you…
  3. …add it up, you take Saudi Arabia and take Russia—two big oil producers—we do more than twice as much. We do more than…

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

Jun 24, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO Secretary General 13 times

  1. …hottest city in the whole—on the whole continent. It was the "Oil City." It was the oil of Europe. And they closed everything. It…
  2. …couldn't believe it. The North Sea is loaded. I have had every oil company come to see me: "Sir, could you give us access to…
  3. …haven't even found what's there. The amazing thing is, they buy their oil from Norway, which gets the oil from the North Sea. Think of…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Abdelfattah Said Elsisi of Egypt and an Exchange With Reporters in Évian-les-Bains, France

Jun 17, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with The President of Egypt 7 times

  1. …the next day or two. And the market has gone wild, and oil has come tumbling down. Oil is at $73, $74, and it's getting…
  2. …actually seen. Again, the stock market has gone through the roof, and oil has come tumbling down. I guess it's in the low 70's now…
  3. …market, and we have a very—starting to be a very low oil price, and that's going to have a huge impact on affordability caused…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates and an Exchange With Reporters in Évian-les-Bains, France

Jun 16, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with The President of UAE 5 times

  1. …it fully open by Friday. The ships are starting to move nicely. Oil is starting to go. And the prices are coming down rapidly. Stock…
  2. …be that Iran will turn out to be successful when they have oil. But if we left a week ago—just left—before the last…
  3. …Maybe at 300. Well, soon we'll able to do that because the oil is now flowing. So we put—we took—— ——sanctions off because, obviously…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Emmanuel Macron of France and an Exchange With Reporters in Évian-les-Bains, France

Jun 15, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with the President of France 5 times

  1. …to happen in the Middle East right now. And very importantly, the oil is plummeting down, and the stock market is shooting up like a…
  2. …going to bring a lot of success to the world, because the oil was really clogged up there for a while. He would call me…
  3. …occasion, say: "Come on, please. Let's go. The oil prices". But the oil is coming way down. So I'm very honored by it. I want…

Remarks in Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

May 27, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 11 times

  1. …and Venezuela, what's going on there? So we're producing right now more oil, by double, than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. There's never been anything…
  2. …don't need the Strait. We don't need anything. But we have more oil now being produced—by double, by two times—than Russia and Saudi…
  3. …a lot of people don't know this, but California has tremendous, tremendous oil reserves. Used to be number three in the Nation, and the radical…

Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 26, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 7 times

  1. …country," and we did that. And I thought—frankly, I thought the oil prices would go up more, and I thought the stock market would…
  2. …we're there, we are going to let you have eight boats of oil." Eight boats. Eight big boats of oil. This was 2 days ago…
  3. …of the Hormuz Strait. Eight big tankers are going, loaded up with oil right through." And I said, "Well, I guess they were right." And…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of Japan and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 19, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Bilateral Meeting with Japan 6 times

  1. …it was all done. Everything was going great. The economy was great. Oil prices were very low. Gasoline was dropping to—I mean, we had…
  2. …out that fire. And I said: "You know, if I do that, oil prices will go up. The economy will go down a little bit…
  3. …the island if—anytime we want. Their—I call it their little oil island that sits there so totally unprotected. And we've taken out everything…

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

Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 9 times

  1. …There's nothing they can do about it. We can knock out their oil in Kharg Island. We—the only thing we didn't take down was…
  2. …energy problem—thing and get away from windmills and go back to oil and gas and—you know, you own—you have something that's—no…
  3. …anything like it. The North Sea. "You have some of the greatest oil and oil deposits in the entire world." The North Sea. They don't…

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

Mar 16, 2026 Meeting 15 times

  1. …literally destroyed everything on the island except for the area where the oil is. I call it the pipes. We left the pipes. We didn't…
  2. …than ours—you know, we get less than 1 percent of our oil from the Strait, and some countries get much more. Japan gets 95…
  3. …literally need it. Ninety, ninety-five percent of their energy or their oil comes out of the Strait, and they should be in here very…

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 4 times

  1. …the relationship's been great. We've taken out a hundred million barrels of oil already. And a big part of that goes to them, and a…
  2. …the war many times over. And we're going to be running the oil. And Venezuela is going to make more money than they ever made…
  3. …that had to be done. So, if we have a little high oil prices for a little while—but as soon as this ends, those…

Remarks in a Cabinet Meeting

Jan 29, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 7 times

  1. …the various people involved, including Chris and Doug and everybody, on the oil. We have the major oil companies going to Venezuela now, scouting it…
  2. …back tremendous wealth for Venezuela and for the United States. And the oil companies will do fine too. Venezuela will actually make for themselves more…
  3. …energy out of our land. But specifically, if you took—look at oil and gas, we've never been anywhere even close. Is that a correct…

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 50 times

  1. …delighted to welcome almost two dozen of the biggest and most respected oil and gas executives in the world to the White House. It's an…
  2. …discuss how these great American companies can help rapidly rebuild Venezuela's dilapidated oil industry and bring millions of barrels of oil production to benefit the…
  3. …a correct number? Thirty million barrels—do you hear that, Peter?—of oil was given to us by Venezuela. That's a lot of oil. It's…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and an Exchange With Reporters

Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 5 times

  1. …looking at it, because it's very difficult for him to get the oil and gas from other areas. As you know, they don't have—they…
  2. …countries, they don't have those problems, and they buy a lot of oil and gas from Russia. And, as they know, I'm very disturbed by…
  3. …Hungary is in a different position. But many European countries are buying oil and gas from Russia, and they have been for years. And I…

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

Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 7 times

  1. …tremendous sanctions. These are very big. Those are against their two big oil companies. And we hope that they won't be on for long. We…
  2. …they'll certainly have an impact there. They're massive sanctions. It's sanctions in oil, the two biggest oil companies—among the biggest in the world, but…
  3. …nothing. That's a big thing. That was almost 40 percent of the oil. India, they've been great. Spoke to Prime Minister Modi yesterday. They've been…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With President Volodymyr Zelenskky of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 4 times

  1. …interesting combination, huh? Well, India is not going to be buying Russian oil anymore. And Hungary is sort of stuck, because they have one pipeline…
  2. …and they are—you know, it's very hard for them to get oil. I understand it. We have—Hungary is in a very interesting position…
  3. …So we'll see what happens there. But India will not be buying oil from Russia, and they've already deescalated, and they've more or less stopped…

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

Sep 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump-Starmer Bilateral 8 times

  1. …of these people—you know, we've already solved inflation. We've solved prices. Oil is way down. Energy is way down in the United States. But…
  2. …we spoke about it. It's called the North Sea. The North Sea oil is phenomenal. And I hope—because I love this country. You know…
  3. …What is your answer to that? Very simply, if the price of oil comes down, Putin is going to drop out, and he's going to…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …close up the north—the northern parts of the country. They have oil. It's tremendous. And they close it up, and they're building windmills all…
  2. …here in America. So we're doing amazingly well on steel. And domestic oil production is up by more than 300,000 barrels a day. That's…
  3. …These two people have done a fantastic job. And we have the oil price down to about $62 a barrel. So, just so you understand…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 5 times

  1. …have. We're dealing with them on Alaska having to do with the oil. They need—you need oil, and we have it. So we have…
  2. …big advantage in that way. We have a big—we have more oil and gas and coal and energy than any other country in the…
  3. …Pacific Ocean. It's actually pretty close, relatively speaking. But we have more oil and gas and coal than any other nation in the world, by…

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. …Good. We'll do that. We'll do that. We're going up to your oil capital in a little while. We're going up to Aberdeen. That's called…
  2. …But it's a very amazing place, and it's—it is considered the oil capital of Europe. So it's a—it's another option that you have…
  3. …of a hole in the ground this big. This big. It's called oil and gas, and you have it there—the North Sea. This big…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 16, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …money. We have the number one—you know, we have the most oil of any country in the world, even more than them, which is…
  2. …land, right? But we have—we're number one in the world in oil, and we're drilling. And today it hit $64 a barrel, which is…
  3. …hope to get it down a little bit more, but we have oil down to $2, $2.25, $2.50 in numerous States. We hit…

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

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 10 times

  1. …couple of States. You have—gasoline is way down. The price of oil has dropped substantially. The price of groceries are substantially down. The price…
  2. …now. You know, I just said the major things are going down. Oil is great. Oil is way ahead of schedule, and that's because of…
  3. …would say we have essentially no inflation. Hard to have inflation when oil goes down. And oil goes down. When Biden came in, oil went…

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

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …he would have done it. All you had to do is lower oil prices. If you lowered oil prices—Biden kept the prices so high…
  2. …their problem is? They have no money—— ——because I shut off their oil, and we put secondary tariffs because they're not—they're not doing what's…
  3. …those secondary tariffs and tariffs on . I told China: "You can't buy oil. If you buy oil from Iran"—China; I told it to President…

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

Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …really good, and he was all of a sudden thrown into the oil business, right? And he took that to a level that nobody ever…
  2. …our feet than anybody else. But we went to Venezuela to buy oil instead of taking it from our own land and, you know, drilling…
  3. …you're going to have one guy sitting there with a lot of oil under his feet. That's not a good situation. But we're having talks…