Official transcripts

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.

“Fentanyl” said in 54 of 400 transcripts, 139 times.

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Remarks in Las Vegas, Nevada

Aug 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Las Vegas 3 times

  1. …sir. Fire them." The communist platform also calls for legalizing heroin and fentanyl. And by the way, we have no fentanyl coming in by sea…
  2. …is so lovely out." They have their little boat loaded up with fentanyl, enough to kill 25,000 people a boat. That's what you have…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Dinner

May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …destroy our country. There's something wrong with them. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down, by the way, by over 60 percent…

Remarks at a Mother's Day Luncheon

May 8, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Rose Garden remarks 2 times

  1. …the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The flood of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by 59 percent, and the drugs coming…
  2. …Jackie. Last summer, it was my great honor to sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law. And we'll never give up on that mission for…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union

Feb 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during the State of the Union?, What places will Trump mention in his State of the Union address?, Who will Trump mention during his State of the Union address? 2 times

  1. …and will work hard to maintain our country. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent in 1…
  2. …I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. And with our new military campaign…

Remarks on Presenting the Mexican Border Defense Medal and an Exchange With Reporters

Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 11 times

  1. …time, we've also achieved a 50-percent drop in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, and China is working with us very closely…
  2. …the number and the amount of fentanyl that's being shipped. You know, fentanyl is very bad when you mix it with certain ingredients, but it…
  3. …but it will be satisfactory soon. In May, we executed the largest fentanyl bust in the history of the U.S., seizing 3 million fentanyl pills…

Remarks to the Department of War in Quantico, Virginia

Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they had—they had fentanyl, mostly, and a lot of other drugs. And we take them out…
  2. …these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs too. And now we have a problem. General Caine…

Remarks on Signing the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act and Executive Orders and Announcing the 2026 Group of Twenty (G-20) Nations Summit in Miami, Florida, and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're doing with fentanyl is a terrible thing. It comes through Canada, and it comes through…
  2. …a minor deal, and it turned out to be riddled out with fentanyl. The size of the head of a pin, and you're dead. And…
  3. …like, loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs—probably fentanyl, mostly, but all sorts of drugs—and we're going to take them…

Remarks at a Dinner With Republican Senators

Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …saving a lot of money. And on Wednesday, I signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, and earlier today I signed Senator Bill Hagerty's GENIUS Act, and…

Remarks on Signing the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act and Exchange With Reporters

Jul 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge as we sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law. Good job…
  2. …very much. With this bill, we are officially and permanently classifying all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I narcotics, which is actually a very big…
  3. …We were doing nothing. This open-borders nightmare flooded our country with fentanyl and with people that shouldn't be here—some of the worst people…

Remarks on the President's Legislative Agenda and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …is Sarah Stewart from Kerrville, Texas, who lost her brother to the fentanyl epidemic that has inundated her small town. Our bill provides billions and…
  2. …taxes that we put on because they've allowed people that are selling fentanyl to go through their countries, or in the case of China, they…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order on Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients and an Exchange With Reporters

May 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …back to China just for a second. They're very heavy on the fentanyl. We're charging them, as you know, 20 percent for the fact that…
  2. …pay, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. So the fentanyl should stop. It comes from China. It's amazing. And it comes through…
  3. …lost friends or people that have family members that have died of fentanyl, so there's a big incentive for China to stop. And I take…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time

  1. …Canada and China big tariffs because of the fact that they've allowed fentanyl to come in and poison our country. They're paying a lot of…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …it's 145 percent. That's very high. It got there because of the fentanyl. They're sending, you know, massive amounts of fentanyl into our country and…
  2. …were killed—somebody was killed in your family or your friends with fentanyl. And somehow, it's made almost exclusively in China. And as you know…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …times more, but it's much higher than that. More Americans died from fentanyl last year than died in the Korean war or the Iraq war…
  2. …Anne Fundner, who lost her beautiful 15- year-old son Weston to fentanyl. And, Anne, if you would, I'd like to ask you to come…
  3. …a number of other American families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl, and I'd love you to just stand up for a second, and…

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …deficits with both of them. But even more importantly, they have allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds…
  2. …do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the U.S.A. They're going to stop it. I…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …very much, and we've had good relationships. But we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and we have…
  2. …forever—10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They have a big…
  3. …speaking to China probably over the next 24 hours. We don't want fentanyl coming into our country. Now, we had another big thing. Speaking of…

Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on an Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety and an Exchange With Reporters

Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …our country so horribly and so much. Number two are the drugs, fentanyl and everything else, that have come into the country. And number three…
  2. …product—and, with China, I'm also thinking about something because they're sending fentanyl into our country, and because of that, they're causing us hundreds of…
  3. …on what it's going to be, but China has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and killing our people. I don't who said that…