This year\u2019s speech clocked in at 107 minutes, topping the record set by President Clinton in 2000.<\/p>\n
Facing low approval ratings, Trump played up positive economic numbers, some of which were misstated, and the administration\u2019s aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants, drawing polarized reactions in the chamber.<\/p>\n
Trump also recognized the Men\u2019s Olympic hockey team<\/a>, which won its first gold medal since 1980 on Sunday with its victory against Canada, and a number of other guests attended the address, including the widow of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> and Paramount Skydance\u2019s CEO David Ellison.<\/a><\/p>\n The U.S. Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey team arrives for the State of the Union address .<\/p>\n (Kenny Holston \/ Pool, Getty Images)<\/p>\n There were 15 networks that televised the speech. Fox News<\/a> had the largest audience with 9.1 million viewers. ABC was second with 5.1 million, followed by NBC<\/a>\u2018s 3.6 million, CBS\u2019<\/a> 3.3 million, MS NOW\u2019s<\/a> 2.4 million, CNN\u2019s<\/a> 2.2 million, and the Fox broadcast network\u2019s 2.1 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 32.6 million viewers watched President Trump address the nation on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen data. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":619269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[265150,265147,2147,22009,50,13009,265151,77684,265152,265149,265148,290,277,263429,67,132,68,3355,84665],"class_list":["post-619268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-aggressive-crackdown","tag-annual-speech","tag-canada","tag-chamber","tag-news","tag-number","tag-other-guest","tag-paramount-skydance","tag-president-trump-address","tag-right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk","tag-small-audience","tag-state","tag-trump","tag-union-address","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-victory","tag-viewer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116141128044953319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772172863_385_.jpeg\")
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