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“Drone” said in 52 of 394 transcripts, 141 times.
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Sep 12, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to U.S. Embassy Personnel and Business Leaders 3 times
…see this stuff to believe it. But if you have a hundred drones coming, you get one of these, operated by a computer, and it's…
…sending a missile up to—you knock down a 35,000-dollar drone with a very expensive missile. But we have other things that are…
Sep 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at RNC Midterm Convention, Trump speaks at RNC Midterm Convention (Night 1) 1 time
…the world. It will be the best. And it's, by the way, drone-proof, bulletproof, everything-proof. It's got glass this thick—6 inches thick…
Aug 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…complex will be. And the military complex is going to have a drone-proofed roof, and you're going to have—on top of the roof…
…we have—the ballroom is so much a military component, with the drones and the bomb shelters and everything else that we have in there…
…you'd never use a thing like that, but for purposes of the drone port and everything else, we needed it. Come on over here, Todd…
Aug 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump greets Lifeguard Ryder Williams 5 times
…which would be so valuable." And then they came up with the drone port on top, which would be a major drone port to protect…
…maybe more importantly, it's totally secure with bulletproof windows, bulletproof sides. It's drone-proof. It's missile—every—at the top of the line. And we…
…that. It's very important. But we also are getting tremendous military protection, drone protection. The building is drone-proof. It's missile-proof, as much as…
Aug 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in New York 1 time
…percent—they still have missiles, but not a lot. They still have drones, but just a fraction of what they had. But their manufacturing is…
Aug 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Executive Order signing 1 time
…military center. It's a military center, much more than—we have a drone port on top it. We—look at the grass in front of…
Jul 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at General Motors 3 times
…force. We've destroyed their leadership. We've destroyed their anti-aircraft weaponry. Their drones are being made at a rate of about 7 percent. We destroyed…
…for the White House. We're building a heliport, and we're building a drone port, and we're building a great ballroom and a military facility as…
Jul 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Correspondents' Dinner 3 times
…everyone is now really warming up the new White House military center drone port, highly protected ballroom. It's—we have our ballroom. The windows are…
…it. It's going to be amazing, a phenomenal—one of the biggest drone ports anywhere in the world, right on the roof, right protecting the…
…bottom of the sea. They have no radar. They have very few drones left, despite what you see. And every once in a while, they're…
Jul 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes Announcement on the Ratepayer Protections 1 time
…of their radar, most of their capability in terms of manufacturing. Their drones are down 84 percent, their missiles are down 91 percent. And I…
Jul 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Georgia 1 time
…House. It's a ballroom, but it's also a big military facility—a drone port on top and tremendous things underneath. And they've been working hard…
Jul 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…is nonexistent. We knocked out most of their missiles, most of their drones. We knocked out their drone manufacturing capability about 92 percent. Their missile…
Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…not safe. It's not—you know, it's not—it—they didn't have drones in mind when they built it. They didn't have other things in…
…times that numbers of people without the tables, as seats. And bulletproof; drone proof; missile proof, in many cases; and beautiful at the same time…
…on the roof: a drone port. Can you believe? We have a drone port. And it's like no other. So we're doing a great service…
Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks on Trump Accounts? 2 times
…to war, and they—they're dead before the first week ends. It's drone technology. Michael, who would have thought that drones would have become such…
Jun 26, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Conference 2 times
…air force, no anti-aircraft capability, no radar, virtually no manufacturing. Their drone capacity has been cut by 82 percent. Their missile capacity has been…
…they have some—they can still shoot. You know, they shot a drone yesterday at a big ship going into the Hormuz Strait. They shot…
Jun 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 1 time
…of their launching pads are gone, most of their manufacturing capacity for drones and missiles is gone—about 87-percent gone. And then I hear…
Jun 10, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs The Secure America Act 2 times
…air force. All of their planes are blown up. Most of their drones are gone. Most of their drone-making ability is gone. Most of…
May 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes a EPA Announcement 5 times
…to the ballroom is for national security, including, as an example, a drone port on top of—which was top secret until litigation made it…
…We—it's very hard for them now to build missiles, to build drones. We have great drone technology, antidrone technology now that, frankly, we didn't…
May 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 20 times
…At the top of the ballroom is a—what they call a "drone gallery." And we have tremendous amounts of military able to be on…
…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 to stay…
…to the roof of the building. And, again, we call it a "drone port." It's set up for unlimited numbers of drones. Purposely, we don't…
May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of races with that song. Uh-oh. I thought that was a drone. They make them in all different sizes nowadays. They can be very…
May 7, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…country under the circumstances wouldn't have done—shot missiles at it and drones at it. And these stupid boats that came at it, they got…
…we were prepared. They shot missiles. Every missile was knocked down. Every drone was knocked down. And the people that shot it are no longer…
May 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Military Mother's Day Event 1 time
…Air Force mom, Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Collazzo. She's an MQ–9 Reaper drone pilot—whoa, that's pretty good— —an evaluator, a weapons officer, and desk…
May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump joins The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner 5 times
…that means they have missiles left. We knocked out most of their drone-making factories, but they have some drone capacity left. And drones are…
…place in the world to be is in a U-boat. The drone—anti-drone capacity that we have now is fantastic. They have new…
Apr 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…ounce of any form of equipment, practically, is gone. You know, their drone factories are about 82 percent down, and their missile factories are almost…
Apr 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump meets with the Artemis II Astronauts 3 times
…decimated. They have missiles—about 82 percent are gone. And they have drones, and most of them are gone. Most of the factories are mostly…
…of million-dollar— —you know, missiles to knock out a $30,000 drone. So I would say Jared would tell me that, with everything you…
Apr 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Health Care Affordability Event 1 time
…their manufacturing. We've knocked out their missile production. We've knocked out their drone production. We've knocked out everything. In some cases, when I say, "knocked…
Apr 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed. And their weapons, factories, and rocket launchers are being…
Mar 31, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Executive Orders 6 times
…you know, I wrote some of the thing down. We have a drone-proof roof. And it talks about the President and his staff. Well…
…And every window is covered. Every door is covered. The roof is drone proof. We have secure air-handling systems. You know, bad things happen…
…over the last 4 or 5 days, you haven't seen very many drone hits, right? We have some unbelievable anti-drone weaponry that's incredible. But…
Mar 29, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…capable of handling the Inauguration. We have all bulletproof glass. We have drone-proof roofs, ceilings. Everything's drone proof and bulletproof. And unfortunately, we're living…
…becomes a shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows—you…
Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the FII PRIORITY Summit 2 times
…in all fairness. We're crushing Iran's weapons stockpiles, destroying their missile and drone factories at levels nobody ever thought was possible, and turning their defense…
…air force. All wiped out. They have very few missiles left. Their drones are at a minimum. Their factories are gone. Their leaders are gone…
Mar 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable 1 time
…firepower, skill, lethality, and force. And we're destroying their ballistic missiles and drones programs with launches down by more than 90 percent. We're hitting their…
Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…percent of their missiles. They're down to a small portion of their drones. And we've demolished many of their factories where they make the missiles…
…And we've extinguished most of their missiles. We've extinguished most of their drones. We've extinguished most of the places where the missiles and the drones…
…taken out their entire navy. We've taken out every one of their drone—they call it a drone layer, a minelayer. There's specific boats that…
Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…equipment. They don't have anything. Their missiles are down 90 percent. Their drones are down 85 percent. We're blowing up the factories where they're made…
Mar 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…We got many of them before they got to launch. They have drones all over the place. We got many. Now we're knocking out the…
Mar 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The navy is gone. It's…
…going very quickly. And the missiles have been largely knocked out. The drones have been knocked down, and we're hitting where they make the drones…
…we're knocking the hell out of that now, where they manufacture the drones. A lot of work, a lot of brilliant work, but we're going…
Mar 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Inter Miami CF 1 time
…have never seen before, actually. We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody thought was possible…
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 2 times
…use a word, it's a bloodbath. It's horrible, what's happening. It's a drone war. The drones are killing, you know, thousands of people a week…
Dec 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Hanukkah Reception 6 times
…a lot of help. It helped when we were shooting all those drones down from jet fighters. Don't ever let anyone tell you a drone…
…them, out of the air—don't let anyone convince you that a drone is better than an F–22 or an F–35 or any…
…But we had our fighters shooting the hell out of—2,000 drones were launched at Israel, and they were just knocking them out. The…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 1 time
…power, and we helped Israel a lot. We were shooting down the drones. We were doing a lot of things for Israel. We did a…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…sometimes, you know, in Kyiv, they'll lob a missile in or some drones and kill some people, but mostly it's soldiers. Russia and Ukraine are…
…We had a good meeting. Then he went back and started sending drones into Kyiv. I said, "I thought we had a good meeting." But…
Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…very little. And you've been reporting on all the bombing, all the drones all over the place—900 drones coming into certain areas, like Kyiv…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 1 time
…And some in cities—much smaller numbers—where rockets are shot, where drones are dropped. This war would never have started if I were President…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…And a week later, they get their head blown off by a drone. New form of military. It's a whole new form of fighting. So…
Jun 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…rebuild it again, plus technology change. All of a sudden, it's about drone—you know, we have a new form of warfare. It's drone warfare…
May 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…very different warfare out there today. Now they've introduced a thing called "drone." A drone is a little bit different. It makes—you have to…
…is build. We're going to have the best missiles—we already do—drones, and much, much more. And earlier this week—I think you'll like…
…study. But we're seeing the different forms of warfare. We're seeing the drones that are coming down at angles and with speed and with precision…
May 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…light armored vehicles, amphibious combat vehicles, the MQ–9B—and the SkyGuardian drones. That's all the best stuff is, isn't it? If it isn't, please…
May 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Houthis from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, even while missiles and drones were being launched right here at your beautiful city of Riyadh and…
May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…since the Second World War, and it's every week. A lot of drone fighting. It's a whole new form of warfare, and it's violent and…
Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…in Ohio. On display next to me is their 125-pound Roadrunner drone. Where is that little sucker? Where is it? Which is that? Wow…
…say, "Isn't it beautiful?" Now you see the Moon, but you see drones all over the place, and I say, "Let's get the hell out…
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…we're looking at a report. You're right. They make a lot of drones, Iran makes a lot of drones. They make very effective drones too…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…speak in just a couple of seconds. But this plane flies with drones. It flies with many, many drones—as many as you want. And…
…but it—it doesn't fly by itself. It flies by—with many drones, as many as we want. And that's something that no other plane…