President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address to the 119th Congress tonight is likely to be lengthy. Trump is anticipated to handle the nation’s most urgent points, including the economy, and the affect of his administration’s proposed insurance policies.
“It’s going to be a long speech, because we have so much to talk about,” mentioned Trump.
Former President Bill Clinton’s almost one-and-a-half-hour SOTU speech in 2000 is the longest on report since not less than 1964, in accordance with The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Meanwhile, former President Richard Nixon holds the report for shortest SOTU speech, having spoken for beneath half-hour in 1972.