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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.

“DEI / Woke” said in 42 of 387 transcripts, 80 times.

Counted forms: woke, wokes, woke's, dei, deis, dei's.

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Remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee Annual Fundraising Dinner

Mar 25, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers Remarks at the NRCC Annual Fundraising Dinner 2 times

  1. …they would've used it on us without hesitation. Our military would be woke, politicized, starved for resources. ICE would be effectively abolished. They would've terminated…
  2. …of our country. And our Nation would be ravaged by rampant crime, woke lunacy, and transgender for everybody. That's where we would've been. People would…

Remarks Announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …we completely reversed it. We reversed what was happening. We ended the woke political programming, and we're restoring the Kennedy Center as the premier venue…
  2. …Sergio and everybody. They said—I turned down plenty. They were too woke. I turned them—I had a couple of wokesters. No, we have…
  3. …Look at the Academy Awards. It gets lousy ratings now. It's all woke. All they do is talk about how much they hate Trump, but…

Remarks on Signing Executive Orders at the Artificial Intelligence Summit

Jul 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times

  1. …do. And third, once and for all, we are getting rid of woke. Is that okay? Because I know you to hire under—you had…
  2. …them money. But here's the problem, they have to hire lots of woke people. And they say woke isn't for this particular industry. We've noticed…
  3. …the end of your development. But the American people do not want woke, Marxist lunacy in the AI models, and neither do other countries. They…

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa

Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …is terrible. It's going to rain." And then on the day, we woke up, "Rain is projected all night long, heavy." "Oh," I'm saying: "I'll…

Remarks at a Dinner for the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

May 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …In addition, the programming was out of control with rampant political propaganda, DEI, and inappropriate shows. We had some very inappropriate shows, to put it…
  2. …people—we're paying them $4- or $500,000 a year to teach DEI. In just 12 weeks, our new Board has balanced the budget—think…
  3. …was $25 million under. It's balanced now for the fiscal year. Eliminated DEI initiatives in all cases, brought back family-friendly programming that will attract…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …worst that we've had probably in the history of our country; getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our Government. We're stopping…
  2. …transgender insanity from our schools and from our military. We fired the woke Boards of Visitors at our military academies. We have great people running…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …indeed, the private sector and our military. And our country will be woke no longer. We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant…
  2. …what we're doing. We should use it ourselves. And $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, the most ever paid. Nothing even…
  3. …Pete, congratulations. Secretary of Defense, congratulations. And he's not big into the woke movement, I can tell you. I know him well. I am pleased…

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

Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …here today, we confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to end the woke insanity and rebuild our military. Pete is fantastic. Thank you. To stop…
  2. …entire Federal Government—and the private sector and notified every single Government DEI officer that their job has been deleted. They're gone. They're fired. You're…

Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

Feb 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …I don't know if you've been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last 2 weeks. Woke is gone-zo, despite the other…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …I don't know. It doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. DEI is—would have ruined our country, and now it's dead. I think…
  2. …up, and they're very happy about it. He had a lot of DEI. Everybody did. But he has not been a fan. It would have…
  3. …went way backward as a country in so many different ways, from woke to all of the other things that took place that were so…

Remarks on Signing the Laken Riley Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …that's what we've been waiting for for a long time. And gotten woke ideologies out of our Government and out of our military. The water…
  2. …an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement. We canceled $181 million in DEI training contracts. This is just for the training of people in DEI…