On Tuesday night, President Trump surpassed former President Clinton's previous marks and gave the longest speech to a joint Congressional meeting in modern history.
Trump spoke to both Houses of Congress for nearly 100 minutes from start to finish, and a brief break from Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) who took Trump early in his speech and was escorted by a sergeant.
Before Trump's speech on Tuesday, Clinton's 2000 speech to Congress held a long record of over an hour and over 28 minutes. The US President's Project At the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His first Trump speech in his second term was not technically considered a union speech state. That's because it's reserved for the other three years of speeches in which the president can look back on his previous tenure.
However, since Ronald Reagan in 1981, the joint speech to Congress given by all presidents shortly after all presidencies took office works just as well as the union's state.
The project's record-keeping dates back to Lyndon Johnson's first speech to Congress in 1964, just months after he took office following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Clinton was the longest speech of a modern president until his speech on Tuesday, but Trump already had the longest average speech every time he addressed Congress in his first term. He averaged just over an hour and 20 minutes during that semester, compared to the 1 hour and 14 minutes in Clinton's second term.
