Some highlights from Trump’s record-setting address to Congress
The US president spoke about his ambitions and achievements in a speech that clocked in at more than one hour and 40 minutes
Here are some takeaways from Trump’s speech:
Trump gives longest address
Trump 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.
That was 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.
Trump’s speech was not technically a State of the Union since he only took office about six weeks ago. But his lengthy address was nonetheless the longest offered to a joint session of Congress.
