“Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”
— Campaign rally, Bozeman, Mont., Aug. 9, 2024
“But now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt, and it’ll all happen very quickly.”
— Tariff announcement, White House Rose Garden, April 2, 2025
“Energy is going to bring us back. That means we’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon.”
— Economic Club of New York, Sept. 5, 2024
“Young people will be able to buy a home again and be a part of the American dream. We will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs, with the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half. … The regulations alone cost 30 percent. Regulation cost 30 percent of a new home.”
— Economic Club of New York, Sept. 5, 2024
“Reducing mortgage rates is a big factor. We’re going to get them back down to, we think, 3 percent, maybe even lower than that, saving the average homebuyer thousands of dollars per year.”
— Economic Club of New York, Sept. 5, 2024
“Costs were going to go way up, and that’s what happened, and now I’m bringing them way down on health care and everything else.”
— State of the Union address, Feb. 24, 2026
"They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I'll have that done — I'll have that done in 24 hours,"
— May 2023 CNN Town Hall