{"id":488626,"date":"2026-02-25T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:59:13","slug":"live-updates-watch-as-trump-gives-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488626\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Watch as Trump gives State of the Union speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump to deliver landmark address to Congresspublished at 23:03 GMT 24 February<\/p>\n

23:03 GMT 24 February<\/p>\n

\"\"Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu
Reporting from Washington<\/p>\n

Welcome to our live coverage of the 2026 State of the Union address. <\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump will address a joint session of the US Congress to give an update of his administration and he is expected to largely talk about his administration’s achievements. <\/p>\n

However, affordability, immigration, the recent Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s global tariffs, and foreign policy, are also expected to be high on the agenda.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the nation’s 250th anniversary will be overarching theme of the speech.<\/p>\n

While Republicans, who hold the majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, are expected to applaud the administration, Democrats remain highly critical of Trump’s first year back in office.<\/p>\n

Last year’s speech to a joint session of Congress – similar in style to a State of the Union – was marred by visible opposition by Democrats and one lawmaker was escorted out of the chamber. Several leading Democrats have already announced they will boycott today’s address.<\/p>\n

Stay with us for analysis from our correspondents and live coverage from our reporters on the ground at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump to deliver landmark address to Congresspublished at 23:03 GMT 24 February 23:03 GMT 24 February Kwasi Gyamfi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-488626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}