Trump delivers longest State

of the Union address in history
U.S. President Trump’s latest State of the Union
speech is the longest since records began to be
kept in the 1960s, when the advent of the television
era saw them broadcast live to the nation

HOW SPEECHES COMPARE

0mins 30 60 90 120

Donald Trump
Average: 1hr 48mins

Joe Biden
Average: 1hr 7mins

Donald Trump
Average: 1hr 20mins

Barak Obama
Average: 1hr 3mins

George W. Bush
Average: 53mins

Bill Clinton
Average: 1hr 15mins

George Bush
Average: 46mins

Ronald Reagan
Average: 40mins

Jimmy Carter
Average: 37mins

Gerald R. Ford
Average: 46mins

Richard Nixon
Average: 35mins

Lyndon B. Johnson
Average: 51mins

2026
2025*
2024
2023
2022
2021*
2020
2019
2018
2017*
2016
2015
2014
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2012
2011
2010
2009*
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2002
2001*
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1993*
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1989*
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Written address
Written address

1hr 48mins
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49mins
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1hr 19mins
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43mins
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1hr 11mins
51mins
47mins
41mins

Republican
Democrat

Richard Nixon
gave shortest
documented
address at just
29 minutes

*Technically not State of the Union address as deemed unofficial speech. Timings rounded to nearest minute
Source: The American Presidency Project
Pictures: Getty, Creative Commons
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