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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.

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Remarks Announcing the Siting of a Mesabi Metallics Steel Manufacturing Facility in Southeastern Iowa and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 28, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement in the Oval Office 9 times

  1. …Socialists. We're running against people that are going to open up the border. We have—we have a border just came out—17 months in…
  2. …is. I don't put out the numbers. And we have a strong border. We have the best economy, the biggest investment in the history of…
  3. …could have done that. Nobody else. If the Democrats took in, the border will be opened immediately, and you have millions of people pouring through…

Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City

Sep 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly 5 times

  1. …world. Before I took office, we had the worst and most dangerous border on Earth, and now we have the most secure border in American…
  2. …It's unacceptable for the United States to share a 2,000-mile border with a territory controlled by enemy cartels. So Mexico must reclaim control…
  3. …world's most repressive regimes, yet they want America to open up our borders to gangs and criminals from world's most dangerous places. They want the…

Remarks on Prescription Drug Prices and an Exchange With Reporters

Sep 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement on healthcare 9 times

  1. …know, you don't have a country unless you have, as I say, borders, good voting. We're straightening them out. The borders are unbelievable. Nobody has…
  2. …into our country in the last 17 months illegally. But you need borders, and you need fair and free voting. And you know what you…
  3. …you know, previous to my coming in, we had the most unsafe border maybe anywhere in the world, maybe in history. Twenty-five million people…

Remarks to United States Embassy Personnel and Business Leaders in Dublin, Ireland

Sep 12, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to U.S. Embassy Personnel and Business Leaders 4 times

  1. …know, we've cut drugs coming into the United States through the southern border. Nobody comes through the United States now. We've had—it sounds ridiculous…
  2. …back. They came in—many of them came in through the open border stupidity of Joe Biden. I mean, what happened with that border, it…

Remarks at the Republican National Committee Midterm Convention Closing in Dallas, Texas

Sep 10, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at RNC Midterm Convention, Trump speaks at RNC Midterm Convention (Night 2) 3 times

  1. …created the worst inflation in American history. They gave us wide-open borders with 25 million people pouring in from all over the globe. They…
  2. …almost 2,000 miles of wall and created the strongest, most secure border that America has ever seen. And it was just announced—you saw…
  3. …common sense. It's—you can call it lots of—we want strong borders. We want great education. We want a tremendous—we built the strongest…

Remarks on Signing the Hershel 'Woody' Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act in Arlington, Texas

Sep 10, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Arlington 5 times

  1. …removed over 5,000 criminals. Many of them came through the open-border policy of Sleepy Joe Biden. Had open border for the world to…
  2. …said, "We lived in hell 2 years ago." They were on the border. And this person—a beautiful man and wife, sort of, like, 40…
  3. …people pouring across—dangerous people too, in many cases, pouring across the border. And now, we haven't seen anybody in a year and a half…

Remarks at the Republican National Committee Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas

Sep 9, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at RNC Midterm Convention, Trump speaks at RNC Midterm Convention (Night 1) 16 times

  1. …We built over 1,400 miles of wall right on your Texas border. One thousand four hundred. And because of that, we have the great…
  2. …one more time. Because if we lose, you're going to lose your border, you're going to lose your tax cuts, you're going to lose your…
  3. …Paxton. Together, we're going to continue to have—we have the strongest borders now. In the history of our country, we've never had anything. We…

Remarks During a Rose Garden Club Dinner

Sep 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 19 times

  1. …There's never been anything like it, what's happening in our country. Our border is secure. Remember I got maybe elected, partially—certainly partially because of…
  2. …years under Sleepy Joe Biden. And we had Kamala, who was the border czar—she never called the Border Patrol. They said, "How many times…
  3. …They actually interjected she never called and she never went to the border. Other than that, she did quite a good job with the border…

Remarks on Law Enforcement in Garden City, New York

Aug 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in New York 23 times

  1. …You'd be afraid to say it if you were. And wide-open borders with millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the…
  2. …took the oath of office as your 47th President, we ended the border invasion. By the way, we have the best border now in the…
  3. …took off-—remember this, though. And we allowed, through this stupid open borders policy, 25 million people to come into our country. Many of them…

Remarks in Las Vegas, Nevada

Aug 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Las Vegas 13 times

  1. …those high prices, just so you understand. I inherited them. Wide-open borders with millions of people pouring in from all over the globe, from…
  2. …country was being invaded. Twenty-five million people poured through our southern border. And they came from jails, and they were drug dealers, and they…
  3. …the world. They opened their doors, they brought them into the southern border, and they released them into our country. We're getting them all out…

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 10 times

  1. …allowed 25 million people under Joe Biden, the Democrats. We had open borders, and countries all over the world—almost all of them—sent people…
  2. …that I see running for office. They had—we had an open border. A year and a half ago, we had the worst border in…
  3. …in 15 months, not one person has come in through our southern border illegally. Now, that's pretty amazing. I'd say maybe 10, maybe 15. They…

Remarks on the United States Automobile Industry in Milford, Michigan

Jul 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at General Motors 10 times

  1. …We're dropping—you know, I inherited this mess. I inherited an open border where millions—25 million people came in. Many of these people were…
  2. …this country. They allowed them to come in through the stupid open border. They came in like water. You've seen it. And right now it…
  3. …the 15th month in a row—zero people have come through our border illegally. Zero. But it all started—you know, I won the election…

Remarks in Marietta, Georgia

Jul 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Georgia 11 times

  1. …was beyond 48 years. But 48 years is good enough. Wide open borders with millions of people, even from the world's worst prisons—from all…
  2. …maybe like never before. When I took office, we inherited the worst border in U.S. history. It was an open wound. It was an open…
  3. …very, very dangerous people. We cut the flow of fentanyl across our border by 67 percent. And drugs coming in by ocean, sea, by water…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to a Meeting With President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon and an Exchange With Reporters

Jul 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Lebanon 6 times

  1. …and maybe it pertains a little bit with respect to you and borders and everything else. We had a border that was totally out of…
  2. …election at least partially on the border. Would you say? And the border now—we literally, in 14 months—I think it came out this…
  3. …hard-line, hardcore criminals, most of whom came in during the open-border periods of the previous administration. And an amazing statistic. And this is…

Address to the Nation on Election Reforms

Jul 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers a Speech to the Nation 4 times

  1. …social disaster after the worst inflation in 48 years; the wide-open borders, with millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the…
  2. …or any child you'd like to sign up. Our previously wide-open borders have been transformed into the most secure borders in the history of…
  3. …That is zero. Nobody thought it was possible. We had the worst border in the history of our country, and now we have the best…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Lunch

Jul 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …career criminals. Many of them came through the Biden administration's stupid open-border policy. They poured in. And I just want to give a little…
  2. …our side. We can remove murderers. You know, under the Biden open-border policy, 11,888 murderers were allowed into our country. They're living in…
  3. …and—caught most of them, but they came in through an open border. They came in through prisons, mental institutions—drug dealers. You have no…

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? 3 times

  1. …a tougher one. I think that's—that might be tougher. We like borders. We like things that they don't like. But if parents have not…
  2. …a 2-year life. Like, as an example, Kevin, I closed the border. We have nobody coming into our country illegally anymore. And I want…
  3. …I'd like to talk about it." They said: "Nobody cares about the border. You've solved that problem." I say, "What kind of a business—you…

Remarks at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota

Jul 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the Burning Hills Amphitheatre 16 times

  1. …hell they were. They didn't have people that said: "Let's have open borders so millions and millions of people can pour into our country from…
  2. …our country, don't—but we do pretty good. We have the best border we've ever had. We do pretty good. Think of it. We have…
  3. …from the worst border in history in 3 months to the best border in history. So, we do okay. But he was a man who…

Remarks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition 2026 Policy Conference

Jun 26, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Conference 8 times

  1. …evil and yet, in many ways, incompetent—certainly incompetent on policy: open borders, transgender for everybody, men in women sports—just grossly incompetent ideologies—and…
  2. …worst—some of the worst people on Earth came in through open borders—Joe Biden's, but really, it was the ideology's open-border policy where…
  3. …2025, we inherited the worst, most dangerous, most wide-open and insecure border in history. I actually think in the history of the world. I…

Remarks on Affordability in Macungie, Pennsylvania

Jun 23, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at Mack Trucks 11 times

  1. …probably deserve it. But think of it. The "Dumocrats" voted against the border wall. The border wall gave us the safest border. We have the…
  2. …Homan and our whole group of people. But the "Dumocrats" want open borders, and they want them all to come back in. You can imagine…
  3. …gone communist. But just over 1 year ago, we inherited the worst border in history, but I quickly turned it into the most secure border…

Remarks on Signing the Secure America Act and an Exchange With Reporters

Jun 10, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs The Secure America Act 27 times

  1. …about anymore, Lisa, will we? We'll give the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol—and that's what they are, they're heroes for what they have…
  2. …keep us safe—the support and resources they need to defend our borders, protect our homeland, and to keep America safe. I want to thank…
  3. …Department of Homeland Security in a reprehensible attempt to throw open the borders of the United States of America. They want to drag us straight…

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on Agriculture in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Jun 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Wisconsin roundtable 12 times

  1. …trouble. But I said, you know, I want to write about the border and I want to talk about the border, because when I came…
  2. …had the worst border maybe anywhere in the world. There was no border. Twenty-five million people came in. Drug dealers came in. People from…
  3. …crooked politicians, but they're going out fast. But we have the safest border in our history. For the last 12 months—and this is a…

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

Jun 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …you, Peter. You know, we had millions of people pouring through our border and—when I got here. And it happened twice, but the first…
  2. …nearly as bad as this. But, in 2016, we had a bad border—really, a bad border. And pretty quickly, we made it very good…
  3. …with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because…

Remarks on the National Economy in Suffern, New York

May 22, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a rally in NY 19 times

  1. …not be good. No, it's no good. And we don't want open borders where prisoners pour in from other countries. All over the world, they…
  2. …cuts. Every one. They voted, as an example, in favor of open borders. They voted against the border. They voted against the wall. They voted…
  3. …maybe, but it's a movement based on common sense. We want strong borders. We want good education. We want low taxes. We also—we want…

Remarks on Commercial Refrigeration Regulations and an Exchange With Reporters

May 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes a EPA Announcement 3 times

  1. …is, they'd never be elected again— —because, with their policy of open borders, transgender for everyone—I call it "transgender mutilization" of your children for…
  2. …out of the city—career criminals that came in through the open borders and other reasons. And we moved over 5,000. And an interesting…
  3. …were letting hundreds of thousands—millions of people pour through our southern border: criminals, people from jails, people from mental institutions, drug dealers, and drug…

Commencement Address at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut

May 20, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers keynote address at Coast Guard Academy Commencement 6 times

  1. …industrial capacity to other countries, crippled our energy production, threw open our borders. We had borders, where two—just, they were open borders, they called…
  2. …shape really properly. And now we have—we went from the worst border in history to the strongest border we've ever had. In 11 months…
  3. …the absolutes—at, really, the center of the battle to restore sovereign borders for the United States and keep drugs and criminals out of our…

Remarks on the Construction of the White House Ballroom and an Exchange With Reporters

May 19, 2026 Speech / ceremony 9 times

  1. …Dumocrat." He votes against us all the time. He voted against the border wall. He voted against men playing in women's sports. He voted against…
  2. …for everybody, the mutilization of your children. He voted against—again, open borders. We have the best border we've ever had right now. Nobody's coming…
  3. …don't think he knew he was alive. But she—Kamala was the border czar. She never called—not one time—she never called the Border…

Remarks at a Rose Garden Club Dinner

May 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony 11 times

  1. …out of here. They were career criminals. They came in through the border—through Joe Biden's open border. One of the dumbest things I've ever…
  2. …guy. Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much. President of the National Border Patrol Council, my friend—this guy, for years, along with others, he…
  3. …the border. He never got a call from the border czar. The border czar was Kamala, who is, by the way, leading the polls in…

Remarks at a Mother's Day Luncheon

May 8, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Rose Garden remarks 11 times

  1. …moms who saw their precious children stolen from them by the open-border policies of the radical left. Open borders. I call them "stupid borders…
  2. …Many of them were murderers. They allowed them in with their open-border policy of stupidity. These incredibly brave and resilient women have turned terrible…
  3. …happened. In their honor, we've rapidly turned the worst and most dangerous border in the history of our country into the strongest border in American…

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner in West Palm Beach, Florida

May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump joins The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner 7 times

  1. …are saying that. We took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent, and open border in the world—anywhere in the world, there's no border like this…
  2. …list are the Democrats. Nobody even tries to come in because the border is so tight right now that you just don't—you just don't…
  3. …000 hardened career criminals. Many of them came in during the open border of Joe Biden. And they made it just a horrible place. It…

Remarks During an Event With Seniors in Middleton, Florida

May 1, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump say delivers remarks at The Villages 16 times

  1. …country was dead. I don't think it could have sustained—the open borders. Transgender mutilization of your children. I believe our country—men playing in…
  2. …have common sense. We're people with common sense, right? We like strong borders. We don't like open borders for the world to pour into our…
  3. …on day one, we took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent, and open border and created the most secure border in the history of the United…

Remarks During a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …those people. You know, they—we're talking about ICE, we're talking about Border Patrol, Secret Service, everyone. It's—the Democrats essentially want to defund the…
  2. …men in women's sports, with transgender mutilization of our children, with open borders for jails to be dropped into our country and mental institutions and…
  3. …to fund. They're defunding our police. When they defund ICE and with Border Patrol and Secret Service, they're defunding our police. The same thing as…

Remarks at a Turning Point, U.S.A., Event in Phoenix, Arizona

Apr 17, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at Turning Point USA 15 times

  1. …our country. And we took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent, and open border and created the most secure border in U.S. history. One of the…
  2. …Before he was born. The flow of deadly fentanyl pouring across our border is down by a astounding 59 percent. And as you probably noticed…
  3. …the largest regulation cuts in American history, and the largest investment in border security in the history of our country. And starting my first day…

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion on Tax Code Reform in Las Vegas, Nevada

Apr 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a roundtable on No Tax on Tips 5 times

  1. …of good things, like no men in women's sports, like no open borders. You know, we have the safest border we've ever had. We have…
  2. …pay our security people, they don't want to take care of our border. They want to have open borders for everybody. They want to have…
  3. …to justify men playing in women's sports. He's trying to justify open borders. No, we don't—we can't let them back in. They'll destroy the…