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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.

“Trade” said in 61 of 114 transcripts, 232 times.

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

Sep 12, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with the Taoiseach of Ireland 2 times

  1. …be going there later. We're doing business. We've had some discussions on trade and various other things. We have a big relationship with Ireland, and…
  2. …things, a lot of very positive things. We have a very positive trade relationship with our own. Go ahead. Well, the Falkland Islands is very…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters in Ankara, Turkey

Jul 7, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral with the President of Turkey 3 times

  1. …the benefit of both countries. We're going to be talking today about trade. We're going to be talking about other things having to do with…
  2. …to have some very good discussions. But we do a lot of trade with Turkey. We make great things, and they make great things, and…
  3. …ever before, and we have a great relationship with some countries on trade and Turkey happens to be one of them. Is that for me…

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 4 times

  1. …have a very fine relationship. And we're going to be talking about trade and many other things. And it's an honor to have you. Thank…
  2. …going to have some good talks today, and I think mostly about trade, because they want to do a lot of trade. They're a tremendous…
  3. …But just a short—it's just a short trip. We'll be discussing trade, and a lot of the talk will be about energy. Thank you…

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 3 times

  1. …of it. I predicted Usama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I made that prediction a year before he did it. I…
  2. …a book. You can even check. About a year before the World Trade Center came down. President Clinton actually had a shot at him, and…
  3. …he didn't take it. And he ended up knocking down the World Trade Center. But I predicted that too. I predicted a lot of things…

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 3 times

  1. …a great job. Very popular. And the relationship that we have in trade and everything else has been very strong. We've been able to do…
  2. …we'll be talking about that. And we're talking about some very big trade deals, and those, I know, will work out too. So I just…
  3. …don't pay the 2 percent. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain. And I'm…

Remarks at the Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Peace

Feb 19, 2026 Meeting 4 times

  1. …Modi very well, actually. I got to know Pakistan through a little trade. They were trying to make too good a deal, and I got…
  2. …out. And I called them, and I said, "Listen, I'm not doing trade deals with you two guys if you don't settle this up." They…
  3. …it has to—if you don't do it, I'm not doing a trade deal. We're not doing a trade deal." And they do a lot…

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. …I've known him for a long time. We're going to be talking trade. We're going to be talking a little bit of Russia-Ukraine. We'll…
  2. …agree with them on many other subjects. We just signed the biggest trade deal ever made with Europe: $950 billion. We were able to do…
  3. …I came into office. But we just signed—it's the single biggest trade deal ever signed. So we have a very good relationship with Europe…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 20, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral with Prime Minister of Australia 10 times

  1. …a fantastic job as the Prime Minister. We're here to talk about trade, submarines, lots of other military equipment. They're big orderers of our great…
  2. …took advantage and—but not anymore. We've worked out a very fair trade deal. Japan, we worked out a very fair deal. South Korea, where…
  3. …is, but I don't see anything happening. We have a very good trade relationship. We're going to have a very good—I think when we…

Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With President Javier Milei of Argentina and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 4 times

  1. …they have great product, and we used to do a lot of trade, and then—if you look at what the Democrats—well, they didn't…
  2. …they didn't know what they were doing. But a lot of that trade disappeared. And they have great product. So we will be trading with…
  3. …think you should be doing business much with—you can do some trade, but you certainly shouldn't be doing beyond that. Certainly shouldn't be doing…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters

Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 3 times

  1. …and I appreciate it very much. We're going to be talking about trade. We're going to be talking about a lot of different things. We'll…
  2. …complicated agreement. More complicated maybe than any other agreement we have on trade, because, you know, we have natural conflict. We also have mutual love…
  3. …months, actually, in terms of that relationship. So, when it comes to trade, the United States was always giving everything—they would—they gave everything…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 25, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …going to have a discussion—big discussion. We do a lot of trade with Turkey, and we're going to continue. We're going to do some…
  2. …relationships, both having to do with war and having to do with trade. And I guess today we're talking about both. I'd like to have…
  3. …a little bit of a discussion. We're going to make some great trade deals for both countries. We do a lot of business with Turkey…

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 5 times

  1. …Kingdom was the very first country with which we made a historic trade deal and a very good trade deal. He's a tough negotiator. I…
  2. …now, and that was quite a meeting we had on business and trade and technology. This trip has galvanized $350 billion in deals across many…
  3. …India, and we did Pakistan. That's two nuclear—that was purely for trade. You want to trade with us, you're going to have to get…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Karol Nawrocki of Poland and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …want to say it's an honor to have you. We'll be discussing trade and various other things—the things that you discuss. We'll have a…
  2. …so. So it's a great honor, and we're going to talk about trade. We'll talk about some other things. We'll take a couple of questions…
  3. …of that one—less than in some cases—had to do with trade and had to do with tariffs. So, you know, it's a—tariffs…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 9 times

  1. …doing a great job. Thank you, Brooke. And we have negotiated historic trade deals with the United Kingdom; China; Indonesia; Vietnam; the Philippines; Japan; South…
  2. …numbers that nobody has ever seen before. As you know, we made trade deals with a lot of countries, and many of those countries, just…
  3. …table, are paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. We made a trade deal with the European Union. They were rough on us for a…

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

Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 8 times

  1. …known each other and gotten along very well. We have some additional trade, because I hear they want to renegotiate the deal, but that's okay…
  2. …we're going to have some very serious discussions about different things, including trade, where we do a lot of trade with South Korea, as you…
  3. …I look forward to that. But we have a lot of other trade things. Their a big purchaser of our military equipment. We make the…

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 13 times

  1. …Prime Minister. And you've done a fantastic job with regard to the trade deal. You know, they wanted a trade deal here for years, many…
  2. …And I think I can speak—we just signed a very big trade deal, the biggest of them all, yesterday—— ——right? And the European Union…
  3. …it just came out over the wire. So we solved it through trade. I said, "I don't want to trade with anybody that's killing each…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 9 times

  1. …forward to this meeting. You know, we've had a hard time with trade with Europe. Very hard time. And I'd like to see it resolved…
  2. …No. Well, we're meeting about a lot of things. We have our trade deal, and it's been a great deal. It's going to—it's good…
  3. …to get it, and they got it. And it's—it's a great trade deal for both. It works out very well. But we are discussing…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 2 times

  1. …70. Those are ones with massive—you know, where we have massive trade deficits, because they've treated us very badly. But I would say, in…
  2. …along with them very well. And they've been very fair on our trade deal, honestly, and I hope we're going to have a great relationship…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 10 times

  1. …everything—I think we're in very good shape with China and the trade deal. We have a deal with China, as you know, but we…
  2. …And I hope we're going to make that a part of our trade deal, because we have more than anybody else. We have actually the…
  3. …rest will just sort of follow very easily. We'll have a good trade deal. I mean, I guess, that will be mostly determined by the…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and an Exchange With Reporters

May 21, 2025 Meeting 4 times

  1. …kind of a different meeting. Normally, we have meetings, we talk about trade—and we'll be talking about trade and other things. But that certainly…
  2. …it looks like we have something very substantial. We also talked about trade with them in terms of rare earth and all. But really more…
  3. …we settled that whole thing, and I think I settled it through trade. We're— we're doing a big deal with India. We're doing a big…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters

May 6, 2025 Meeting 11 times

  1. …it was a very positive step from NAFTA. NAFTA was the worst trade deal in the history of our country—probably in the history of…
  2. …turn. And you know, we lost a trillion dollars to China on trade because of an incompetent President that we had, who preceded me—grossly…
  3. …they're suffering greatly. Their economy is suffering greatly because they're not doing trade with the U.S., and they made most of their money off the…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …for allowing it to happen, where our country was ripped off on trade. Hundreds of billions of dollars. And now we're doing better than we've…
  2. …were losing $4- to $5- to even $6 billion a day on trade with Biden, and now we have it down to a very manageable…
  3. …not just talking about Biden. That's been the worst. I mean, the trade deficits and everything else, he's been the worst. But he had no…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 24, 2025 Meeting 11 times

  1. …country. And we've had talks on the war with Ukraine-Russia and trade. We're doing very well, I think, on both. We've had some pretty…
  2. …very important. Meetings are taking place right now. Additionally, we talked about trade, and we will definitely—we get along very well on trade. We'll…
  3. …to benefit also. So we're going to have a good relationship on trade, and we discussed other things also. But, Mr. Prime Minister, it's an…

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

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …have a great relationship between Italy and ourselves. And we talked about trade. We talked about many, many things during our luncheon. And she'll be…
  2. …amounts of money with the tariffs. We were treated very unfairly on trade, and the countries are getting—having a hard time getting used to…
  3. …losing a lot of money under Biden—trillions of dollars, trillions—on trade. And now that's—that whole tide has turned. We're making a lot…