Worth Staying Up For: Longest SOTU Speech in History Also Most Entertaining
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3.5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:04.5 | It is Wednesday, February 25th, the best state of the union ever. |
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| 1:18.0 | I said best state of the union ever, not best state of the union speech. |
| 1:24.1 | Just the production itself. |
| 1:26.3 | Wow. |
| 1:27.2 | It was, you know what, it was worth not getting a lot of sleep for. |
| 1:31.7 | We stayed up and look, you know me, I fall asleep pretty much watching anything after 9 p.m. |
| 1:38.5 | I was up the entire time. |
| 1:41.2 | It was highly watchable and, dare I say, entertaining. And historic and long. |
| 1:48.5 | Folks, if you didn't stay up, and maybe you didn't, but you missed the longest state of the union speech in history, |
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