Remarks in Las Vegas, Nevada
Aug 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Las Vegas 2 times
…as him. And they took them out. And he was protected by steel doors. This was the middle of a military base. This was all…
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Remarks on Signing the Executive Order Establishing the President's Military Spouse Commission and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Executive Order signing 2 times
…his navy, and that navy is —they call it a wall of steel. The United States wall of steel. No, no, there's not going to…
Remarks Honoring the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers
Jul 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Dodgers White House visit 1 time
…Good job you're doing. U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Michelle Steel. Thank you very much. Thank you. And many Representatives and some of…
Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to a Meeting With President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Lebanon 1 time
…it's—nobody gets through. Nobody gets through the block—it's like a steel wall. You're talking about the fire that was set—— ——in front of…
Remarks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Jul 15, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump joins the Defense and Innovation Summit 5 times
…you read about it; and where Pennsylvania workers poured the iron and steel that won two world wars and won lots of other things in…
…our jobs, I imposed historic tariffs to protect the American copper, aluminum, steel, and many, many other project, like cars. And because of that, they're…
…1 year. Can you believe it? No, that stands up there—that steel. I want to know that steel contractor. He did a good job…
Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Lunch
Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…can withstand any form of shot: rifle, drone, anyone. Nothing gets through. Steel walls. Steel ceiling, extra strength. I mean, it's really an amazing thing…
Remarks at Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota
Jul 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…canyons of finance in New York City; from the billowing stacks of steel now being produced all over our country at record levels, to the…
Remarks at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota
Jul 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the Burning Hills Amphitheatre 1 time
…didn't have any of that. He went—he was 40 pounds of steel, the vital man of vigor who would become President of the United…
Remarks on Affordability in Macungie, Pennsylvania
Jun 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at Mack Trucks 4 times
…quite well. I placed 50-percent tariffs on foreign copper, aluminum, and steel so they couldn't come in and steal your jobs, and sometimes even…
…percent sure. And last year, I saved a great American company, U.S. Steel, and we're keeping its headquarters in Pennsylvania, where it belongs. And $17…
…seen. They're expanding the operations and building a couple of brand-new steel plants. They're up to over $17 billion, which is a lot more…
Remarks on Signing Executive Orders on Quantum Technologies and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 1 time
…know the truth. It was—like I said, they call it the "steel wall." Nobody got through. Not one ship got through able to go…
Remarks on Presenting the Medal of Honor to Major James Capers, Jr., USMC (Ret.), Major Nicholas Dockery, USA (Ret.), and Posthumously to Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC
Jun 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Medal of Honor Ceremony 1 time
…Everyone said: "Don't do it, John. Don't do it." He grabbed the steel girders above his head and, hand-over-hand, he climbed, dangling beneath…
Remarks on Commercial Refrigeration Regulations and an Exchange With Reporters
May 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes a EPA Announcement 1 time
…hundred percent effective. Nobody's been able to get through. It's like a steel wall. It's our navy. We have the greatest military anywhere in the…
Commencement Address at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut
May 20, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers keynote address at Coast Guard Academy Commencement 1 time
…this. We have a blockade that's—they call it the "wall of steel." Nobody goes through them, and you're a big part of it. Nobody…
Remarks on the Construction of the White House Ballroom and an Exchange With Reporters
May 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…dead flat, with absolutely nothing but strength on it. It's very strong steel. It's drone-proof, and it's meant for our military to be able…
…which is the strongest of all of the metals. Much stronger than steel, as an example. The ballroom is all—it's going to be a…
…barrier. It's a shield because it's made out of—the sidewalls are steel—impenetrable steel and also impenetrable glass. The glass is approximately 4 inches…
Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters
May 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Healthcare Affordability Event 1 time
…up destroying them. We now have a tremendous—we built, really, a steel wall where no boats—the blockade—where no boats are able to…
Remarks at a Celebration of Military Mothers and an Exchange With Reporters
May 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Military Mother's Day Event 1 time
…the job they did. It's like a—it's like a wall of steel. Nobody goes through. In particular, the Iranians, they're not getting anything through…
Remarks on Signing a Proclamation on National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and an Exchange With Reporters
May 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs a proclamation 1 time
…As you know, the blockade's been amazing. It's like a piece of steel. Nobody's going to challenge the blockade. And I think it's working out…
Remarks at the White House Small Business Summit
May 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Small Business Summit 3 times
…You can't have a great country. Earlier this year, I visited Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia. Before I took office, China and other countries were…
…no stopping it. And now, thanks to the tax cuts and the steel tariffs that I put on, Coosa is thriving like never before. I…
…have a backlog of 7 months long of things that they're building: steel products. Great. And they said—I was with the gentleman that owns…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 31, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 2 times
…to have—like, for instance, the ballroom, we have a very powerful steel—very steel roof with other things in it. And you want to…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Future Investment Initiative Priority Miami Summit in Miami Beach, Florida
Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the FII PRIORITY Summit 4 times
…military base with thousands and thousands of soldiers. The house was all steel with steel doors, steel everything. They had the small steel doors, the…
Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts DHS swearing-in ceremony 1 time
…at this guy. Come here. This guy—don't wrestle him. It's all steel over here. All right. I want to thank the family, because without…
Remarks on Presenting the Commander in Chief's Trophy to the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen
Mar 20, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Commander in Chief Trophy Presentation 2 times
…Robinson. Where's Landon? Where is he? It's like—his arms are like steel. I just hurt my hand. I hit his muscle. It's like steel…
Remarks on the National Economy in Walton, Kentucky
Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…soaking wet. You know it's a little rainy today, and I have steel stairs, and I'm saying, "Ai yai yai." But I'm—I do it…
Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion on the Ratepayer Protection Pledge
Mar 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Tech Roundtable 1 time
…big stuff. Google, that's a—you know, it used to be U.S. Steel and things like that. Now it's Google and other places. President of…
Remarks During a Tour of Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia
Feb 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and now he's going around the clock, making the racks, making the steel, making everything that he makes. And it's just amazing what's happened. That…
Remarks to United States Servicemembers and Military Families at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Feb 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to Fort Bragg Military Families 4 times
…crashing onto the front. The hulls are made of 7-inches of steel, not aluminum. Aluminum is fine, by the way. I don't want to…
…a helicopter being taken out of there. They had to go through steel doors. The steels were like—it was like paper-mâché. You know…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Domestic Coal Production
Feb 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Champion of Coal Event 1 time
…Coal is also critical to our national security, vital to everything from steel production to shipbuilding and artificial intelligence. It's incredible what's happening with coal…
Remarks on Signing the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Bill to Reopen the Government 3 times
…Japan. Great country. But their power in steelmaking—that we produced more steel this year than Japan. Think of that. More steel than Japan, and…
…at that. And we were pretty much dead when it came to steel. So what do you think of that? To me, when I heard…
Remarks on the United States Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve and an Exchange With Reporters
Feb 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…be brandnew, beautiful. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble, and…
…it. Carrier. We're going to have all brandnew air-conditioning, heating. The steel will all be checked out because it will be fully exposed. You…
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Celebrating American Greatness With American Motor Racing
Jan 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…for the first time in, I think, 28 years, America made more steel than Japan. Can you believe it? Japan is a big steel country…
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 2 times
…numbers. American exports are now up by more than $150 billion. Domestic steel production is up by 300,000 tons a month, and it's doubling…
Remarks on United States Naval Ship Development and an Exchange With Reporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 6 times
…I'd just like to point out that these ships are made of steel as opposed to aluminum. It's a big difference, as you know. The…
…and these are going to be, likewise, made out of very powerful steel. Our steel industry is coming back very strongly, by the way. It's…
…at record numbers, and we're going to be using them for the steel, but as opposed to an aluminum side, which, in all fairness, is…
Remarks on the National Economy in Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 1 time
…imposed 25-percent tariffs on foreign automobiles, 50-percent tariffs on foreign steel, and I approved 25-, 30-percent and 50-percent tariffs to save…
Remarks on the National Economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 17 times
…little group of people and me saved a little company called U.S. Steel, and it's hot as a pistol now. And we have the keys…
…happens if it moves to Japan?" They said, "You can't move a steel mill to Japan." You can move a headquarters, but the steel mill…
…be beyond what anyone thought possible. But we had to save U.S. Steel. U.S. Steel was one of the greatest companies. It was, really, for…
Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner
Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 3 times
…million. That's a lot of air conditioning and heating. And a great steel company came along and said, "Sir, we'd like to contribute the steel…
Remarks on Fuel Efficiency Standards and an Exchange With Reporters
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 1 time
…crazy. The thing that Ted just said, it's true: plastic instead of steel. Think of that. And people died because of that. The plastic—it…
Remarks at a Veterans Day Ceremony in Arlington, Virginia
Nov 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Veterans Day address 2 times
…our country has achieved, has been purchased by the muscle, spine, and steel of the United States military. We owe it all to the fierce…
…cornfields of Iowa to the hills and valleys of California, from the steel towns of Pennsylvania to the vast plains of Texas, from the banks…
Remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 1 time
…started. It's a golden age like you've never seen before. From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil wells of Houston, from the car…
Remarks at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEOs Luncheon in Gyeongju, South Korea
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 7 times
…times faster than it was just 1 year ago. Think of that. Steel production is way up by 155,000 tons a week. Oil production…
…of the things you need is ships. I always say you need steel. You need aluminum. You need this—there's certain—there are things you…
…are—a country doesn't need them. But things you need, you need steel. Got to have steel. And we're redoing our steel, and some of…
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 1 time
…a solid piece of stuff. These 4.5 acres of power and steel are the front line of American freedom in the Pacific. Every day…
Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 9 times
…me, giving it to the country. The—donated the air conditioning. A steel company. A great steel company. Great man, actually. He said, "Sir, I'd…
…said: "Whoa. That's nice." And I found out—"How much is the steel?" I called the contractor. "Sir, it's down for $37 million." I said…
…right?" He wants the steel. And he wants to make it great steel as opposed to garbage steel, because they dump a lot of garbage…
Remarks on the Navy 250 Celebration at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 1 time
…seas and distant shores. You've beaten mighty warships into twisted wrecks of steel. You've splintered vast armadas and sent the mangled pride of empires sinking…
Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…we're actually considering—the concept of battleship. Nice, six-inch sides, solid steel. Not aluminum—aluminum that melts if it looks at a missile coming…
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
…had to grin and bear. They're standing up like a piece of steel. And a woman, in many cases—women—you could see they're professional…
Remarks on Signing Executive Orders To Reduce Crime and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…of that boat, the mass of that boat, went right through that steel just like it was nothing. It's amazing. It's called mass. Mass is…
…they thought there was no danger, because, you know, it's a big steel bridge. And it came down like toothpicks. It was incredible to watch…
Remarks Announcing the 2026 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Draw Location and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…Border Patrol in, and they tested everything else. And we gave them steel wall— high-grade steel, very hard to cut. Then we gave—inside…
…coat of paint, and it should be black, because black makes the steel very hot." It's untouchable. You could fry an egg on it. And…
Remarks Announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…the specifications of the Border Patrol and ICE—the exact—they wanted steel. They wanted concrete inside. They wanted rebar inside that. They wanted it…
…wall back. They sold the wall. Now, this is expensive stuff. Hardened steel, very expensive. Nine- thousand-pound concrete and rebar. Rebar is very expensive…
Remarks at the Inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jul 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…really at the infant stage right now. It's only on cars and steel, mostly, and the rest is starting to kick in. We just made…
…here to announce my approval of a historic investment deal with Nippon Steel—Nippon Steel of Japan—to keep U.S. Steel right here in Pittsburgh…
…We just—that's the way it works. It's very impressive. But Nippon Steel—and we got it, and we have all sorts of protections because…
Remarks at the White House Summit of Faith and Business Leaders
Jul 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…bi-—and we haven't even started yet. That's only for cars and steel. We actually haven't—have barely started. The economy is roaring, business confidence…
Remarks on Signing Legislation Regarding Congressional Disapproval of Environmental Protection Agency Rules Relating to Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards in California and an Exchange With Reporters
Jun 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…invested 10 cents if we didn't have tariffs—including for manufacturing American steel, which is doing great. American steel is doing great now, because of…
…wouldn't have—if I didn't put tariffs on steel—they were dumping steel. China and a lot of other countries were dumping steel in our…
…I didn't put tariffs—I put 25- and 50-percent tariffs on steel. Right, John James? We put tariffs on steel, and we were doing…