Trump units State of the Union report, beats Clinton’s 2000 speech

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President Donald Trump now holds the modern-era report for the longest State of the Union tackle, surpassing President Bill Clinton’s 2000 speech.

The State of the Union is the president’s annual tackle to Congress and the nation, which operates as equal components progress report, agenda blueprint and political measuring stick for what comes subsequent. Trump's speech largely centered on the financial system and turning a web page to usher within the "golden age."

"After only one 12 months, I can say with dignity and delight that we have now achieved a change like nobody has ever seen earlier than," Trump declared from the dais Tuesday night.

Clinton’s Jan. 27, 2000, tackle ran about 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds and has lengthy stood because the longest televised State of the Union in trendy monitoring.

President Donald Trump now holds the modern-era report for the longest State of the Union tackle, surpassing President Invoice Clinton’s 2000 speech. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Photos)

Trump broke that report simply round 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday.

Trump had previewed the size forward of Tuesday's tackle, saying, "It’s going to be a protracted speech as a result of we have now quite a bit to speak about."

Tuesday’s speech is Trump’s first official State of the Union of his second time period. He delivered a joint tackle to Congress in March 2025, which operated the identical as an official SOTU tackle however didn't bear the identical title because it was too early in his administration.

Trump already owns a separate, attention-grabbing timing milestone from that speech. That March 4, 2025, tackle ran about 1 hour, 39 minutes and 32 seconds, surpassing Clinton’s 2000 runtime, although that 2025 look was not formally categorised as a State of the Union tackle.

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President Invoice Clinton throughout his ultimate State of the Union Tackle earlier than Congress. (Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Photos)

Clinton used his ultimate State of the Union to tout the late-Nineties growth and funds surpluses whereas pitching a brand new agenda on training, well being care, Social Safety and local weather change for the brand new millennium.

"My fellow Individuals, every time I put together for the State of the Union, I method it with nice hope and expectations for our nation. However tonight is particular—as a result of we stand on the mountaintop of a brand new millennium. Behind us we see the good expanse of American achievement; earlier than us, even grander frontiers of chance," Clinton mentioned in his ultimate State of the Union speech.

Information exhibits trendy presidents sometimes converse far longer than their counterparts did many years in the past. Within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, many addresses lasted underneath an hour, whereas more moderen speeches have regularly stretched properly past that mark, Fox Information Digital discovered.

President Richard Nixon averaged the shortest State of the Union speeches at 35 minutes, whereas President Donald Trump’s first time period featured a number of the longest, averaging about 80 minutes.

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Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., applaud as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Pool through Reuters)

Trump has a protracted monitor report of prolonged speeches, from hourslong marketing campaign rallies to marquee appearances as president.

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Trump, for instance, gave a two-hour and two-minute speech through the 2019 Conservative Political Motion Convention, and likewise holds the report for longest presidential nomination acceptance speech. Trump delivered a 93-minute acceptance speech on the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, breaking his 2016 report at about 75 minutes.