Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Wall Builders Show, and we're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. No hotter topic than Donald Trump's address to Congress, state of the union, whatever the right way to call it is.

I just got to say, amazing.

Maybe my favorite speech to Congress ever in history.

Maybe my favorite speech.

I don't know, guys, I haven't laughed and cheered and all of that so much.

I don't know.

And how long, and we had a whole group watching it together on the big screen.

I'm going to add cried to that because I shed

tears and part of that. Yes, I did too when that, oh, especially that little kid that got the, oh, so

powerful. Yeah. Well, anyway, Rick Green here with David and Tim Barton. And help me understand this first,

because I thought the state of the union was only once a year and usually earlier in the year. And then I saw some

headlines saying it's just an address to Congress. So what's officially, what is a state of the

union versus not? Here's a little bit of history on it. Go back to Article 2, Section 3. The

Constitution says the president shall from time to time give Congress information on the state of the

union. So this is an executive duty by the Constitution from time to time.

How often is that?

How often it's from time to time?

So what happened is George Washington would give an annual address on the state of the union.

So he would say, here's what's happened in the last year, here's where we are, here's what

we need to do.

And so that kind of started it out. But because it says

you're giving information on the state of the union, it was called the state of the union address,

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