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Trump sets record for longest address to joint session of Congress [1]

['Associated Press']

Date: 2025-03-04 23:41:04-04:00

President Donald Trump has set a record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress. And it wasn’t even close.

He talked for more than an hour and 40 minutes, breaking the previous record set by President Bill Clinton’s 2000 State of the Union address, which ran 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds.

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That’s according to the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, which has tracked speech length since President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

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[1] Url: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-sets-record-for-longest-address-to-joint-session-of-congress

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