Worth Staying Up For: Longest SOTU Speech in History Also Most Entertaining
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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President Trump put on quite the show last night. His speech came in at 1 hour and 49 minutes, beating his own record last year by 9 minutes. The speech was less of an address and more of a reality tv show: complete with awards, surprises, and tearful reunions. And while there were certainly divisive moments - with dozens of Democrats not even present boycotting the address, it was surprisingly positive and upbeat.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey there, everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | It is Wednesday, February 25th, the best state of the union ever. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. I should make a distinction here. I said best state of the union ever, not best state of the union speech. |
| 0:36.3 | Just the production itself. |
| 0:38.6 | Wow. |
| 0:39.5 | It was, you know what, it was worth not getting a lot of sleep for. |
| 0:44.0 | We stayed up and look, you know me, I fall asleep pretty much watching anything after 9 p.m. |
| 0:51.2 | I was up the entire time. |
| 0:53.3 | It was highly watchable and, dare I say, entertaining. |
| 0:58.1 | And historic and long. Folks, if you didn't stay up, and maybe you didn't, but you missed the longest state of the union speech in history, |
| 1:09.2 | surpassing a record only set by Mr. Trump. It didn't feel like it was that |
| 1:13.8 | long. I'll be honest with you. It didn't. You know, and that is why it was so watchable, because it |
| 1:18.8 | wasn't just watching someone talk and talk and read prepared remarks. No, it was interspersed with |
| 1:25.1 | poignant moments, things that even brought tears to my eyes, funny moments. |
| 1:31.3 | I got a kick out of watching the two fellas behind Trump the entire time, per usual. |
| 1:37.2 | And yeah, it had everything you'd want in a television production. |
| 1:43.3 | It was a reality show. It was a reality show. |
| 1:45.3 | It was a game show. |
| 1:47.2 | There were reveals. |
| 1:48.6 | There were surprises. |
| 1:50.1 | Reunions. |
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