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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.

“Granite / Marble” said in 44 of 394 transcripts, 175 times.

Counted forms: granite, granites, granite's, marble, marbles, marble's.

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Remarks on the Construction of the South Lawn Helipad and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 16 times

  1. …very broken and very inappropriate in areas where you see the white marble. I think everybody sees the marble. And we have to bring the…
  2. …stripped it. We got rid of the asphalt here, and this is granite. And if you notice, it's radial. "Radial," meaning it's cut about 2…
  3. …a slight radial cut, and it's a perfect job. It's a white granite. It's a flaw—it's called a flawless granite. It's—we get the…

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 5 times

  1. …we did a great job. We sandblasted the stone outside. It was granite, so it has a long life. We did a great job. We…
  2. …know, the red brick pavers—and do we change them into a granite—to gray granite? They're beautiful, but they're not the original. So we're…
  3. …would you do? Huh? You would change the red brick into the granite? The granite is much stronger. It holds up much better. Different color…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Lunch

Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …stone was broken. It was in terrible shape. And we put beautiful granite pavers in that will last—they said has a million-year life…

Remarks on the Trump Accounts Children's Savings Program and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks on Trump Accounts? 5 times

  1. …And it's got the seal of the White House on it in granite—in carved granite. It's really a beautiful thing. And I'll tell you…
  2. …the White House. It's beautiful. The eagle. And it's carved out of granite. It's done by some of the most talented people you'll ever meet…
  3. …the strongest stone that we can—like, the outside walk is black granite. It's got—that's 35,000 pounds per square inch. It's got a…

Remarks on Coal and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes a coal announcement 2 times

  1. …all work beautifully, and they're clean. The graffiti is gone. The broken marble is fixed. Well, there's a way of fixing it. You use a…
  2. …all of us together, we—beautified it. It's—I didn't know the marble was going to be so beautiful. When we—once we cleaned it…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Dinner

May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …know if you got to see this. It's just completed with the granite, the black granite. And, Mr. Secretary, right? You just, you saw it…
  2. …shape. I don't know if you got to walk into the—the marble—the statuary—it's called Statuario. The statuary marble—the white—I don't…

Remarks at the White House Small Business Summit

May 4, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Small Business Summit 11 times

  1. …feet. And for years, they've wanted to fix it, rebuild it. It's granite. The stone is good. Granite is great. But it was leaking because…
  2. …fix it is $350 million, because they were going to take the granite out and they were going to replace it with new granite, new…
  3. …different jobs." I said, "Let me look at that surface." So it's granite. So granite is virtually indestructible, but it was filthy dirty. It started…

Remarks During a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 17 times

  1. …budget, depending on finishes. You know, finishes—there's a big difference between marble and onyx in price. But it's right on budget, right on time…
  2. …like that. So I went out and I have a special black granite. Granite is the most powerful stone there is. Marble is much weaker…
  3. …weaker stone. When you look at gravesites and you look at a marble plaque a hundred years old, you'll see—oftentimes, you can almost not…

Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Health Care Affordability Event 10 times

  1. …built it. This is better right now. But we're putting magnificent new granite. It's called charcoal. It's a black granite against the white—beautiful white…
  2. …they do really—pros. You see the way—large slabs of black granite. Granite is rated as—this particular granite—over a million-year life…
  3. …very interesting. It's a beautiful job they're doing. And it's—highly polished granite are the areas you don't walk on. And it's called flame finished…

Remarks on the United States Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …in and out, and you have the workmen. And we have a marble man over there. The other day, he said, "You know, every time…
  2. …the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down. But when it's open, it…
  3. …build it, and we'll do it right. We're using the highest-grade marbles, the highest-grade everything. It will be brandnew. Tremendous Carrier is putting…

Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner

Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 28 times

  1. …do anything." And we've done a lot of work. We've redone great marble floors that were beat to hell. We've done not good floors that…
  2. …should not have been there. We've replaced them with the most beautiful marble—statuary marble. They call it, in Italy, "statuario." A great white and…
  3. …Center. They view it as a very important thing. And we have marble experts, some of the greatest marble people in—anywhere in the world…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With the Homeland Security Task Force and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 4 times

  1. …over the place, and railings falling down and graffiti all over the marble—beautiful, statuary marble columns—those gorgeous columns where they had graffiti—it's…
  2. …at that. And you'll notice the floors downstairs, I paid for them. Marble. The most beautiful marble you've ever seen. The white floors down in…

Remarks at a Lunch With Republican Senators

Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 6 times

  1. …know if you came through this door, did you notice the white marble floor? That was put there—that was made out of Home Depot…
  2. …broken, about 30 years old, and I replaced it with book-matched marble, paid for by your friend, President Trump. It's like—it's amazing how…
  3. …they did a beautiful job. The great—great talents. They're very talented marble people I have, and they replaced it with beautiful Paradiso marble and…

Remarks During a Ballroom Dinner

Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times

  1. …wars and all of the problem. But what does do is statuario marble. So we—I ripped it apart and we built a bathroom. Is…
  2. …I took it out and we did a magnificent book-matched, statuario marble floor. We fixed the room. We put up the right, you know…

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? 3 times

  1. …brandnew hammers. And they start breaking up the concrete sidewalks and the granite curbs, in many cases. Granite is hard to cut. You know, it's…
  2. …sidewalks look like when they finish, and especially the curbs, because the granite curbs are very, very expensive. And they're great—you know, very hard…

Remarks During Visit to the People's House Exhibit "A White House Experience" and Exchange With Reporters

Aug 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times

  1. …I have some great contractors in my car. I have really great marble contractors and woodworkers. And we're fixing Kennedy Center the way it should…
  2. …an absolute mess. And we're—the bones are so great. They have marble that is so unbelievable, but it hasn't been polished and hasn't been…
  3. …it out, we're able to use it. You couldn't buy—actually, it's marble that you couldn't buy. The slabs are so big—white, beautiful slabs…