Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union 2026 ran for nearly two hours — besting Clinton in 2000

President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday broke an all-time record, becoming the longest one in US history.

Clinton’s record spanned just over 1 hour, 28 minutes, according to the American Presidency Project, which has been tracking the length of the State of the Union for decades. 

The shortest such speech was delivered by Richard Nixon in 1972, which was only 28 minutes.

Technically, Trump’s speech last year was longer than Clinton’s record, clocking in at 1 hour, 39 minutes, but that was an address to a joint session of Congress, not a State of the Union. 

Before Trump’s marquee speech to Congress, rumors had swirled that he would get close to or surpass the two-hour mark, with the president hyping it up as a long speech. 

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