Teasing the 100-minute mark, President Donald Trump set a record Tuesday night for having more to tell the American people during a joint session of Congress than any other president.
According to The Wall Street Journal, based on data from the American Presidency Project, Trump’s speech was 99 minutes long.
Trump’s address pushed him past former President Bill Clinton, who had held the record with an 89-minute speech in 2000.
Trump’s speech lasted about an hour and 40 minutes. It was the longest annual address to Congress in at least six decades. https://t.co/JykKfVgmA1 pic.twitter.com/zVzwRdSW72
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In 2019, the last year of Trump’s first term before disruptions related to the pandemic, Trump spoke for 82 minutes.
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