President Trump, speaking for well over an hour, shattered the record on Tuesday for the length of a State of the Union address. <\/p>\n
Speaking for about 100 minutes, the nation\u2019s leader touched upon a broad range of domestic and international topics, bragged about his accomplishments and awarded the nation\u2019s highest honors to a pilot who participated in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, a 100-year-old Korean War veteran, and a 32-year-old goalie for the gold-medal-winning Olympic men\u2019s hockey team.<\/p>\n
The previous record-holder was President Clinton, famously known for his Southern-twang verbosity. He spoke for nearly 90 minutes during his final State of the Union address in 2000.<\/p>\n
The address is prescribed by the Constitution and calls for the president to apprise Congress about the state of the union. Over time the address has become a vehicle for presidents to address the nation\u2019s residents, claim legislative victories and foreshadow upcoming policy goals.<\/p>\n
Just over a century ago, President Harding\u2019s and President Coolidge\u2019s addresses were aired on the radio. In 1947, President Truman\u2019s address was the first to be broadcast on television. As viewership grew, the annual speech has taken on greater gravity, leading to notable and controversial moments in American politics.<\/p>\n
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) famously shouted \u201cYou lie!\u201d during President Obama\u2019s 2009 address to Congress when he spoke about healthcare policy. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) created a viral moment when she tore apart a copy of Trump\u2019s text after he delivered the State of the Union in 2020.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday night, Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Louisiana, was escorted out of the chamber after he held a small sign that read: \u201cBLACK PEOPLE AREN\u2019T APES.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump, speaking for well over an hour, shattered the record on Tuesday for the length of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[90301,1752,48,52,51,90299,47,50,49,5463,90298,1524,6283,90302,90300,288,225,315,1519,68,90103],"class_list":{"0":"post-192806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-american-politic","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-long-state","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-minute","18":"tag-modern-history","19":"tag-nation","20":"tag-president","21":"tag-president-warren-harding","22":"tag-rep-joe-wilson","23":"tag-resident","24":"tag-state","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-trump","27":"tag-tuesday","28":"tag-union-address"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}