Tonight\u2019s speech is technically not a “State of the Union.” They usually eschew that title this time around, since the president has only been in office a few weeks.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, nothing in the Constitution requires a speech.<\/p>\n
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the “President Shall from time to time give Congress information on the State of the Union.”<\/p>\n
President George Washington gave the first such address in New York, but President Thomas Jefferson discontinued the practice. He viewed it as too much like a speech from the crown.<\/p>\n
TUNE IN: LIVE COVERAGE OF TRUMP’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS TONIGHT ON FOX NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n The “State of the Union” was a written document until the early 20th century. That\u2019s when President Woodrow Wilson revived the speech custom after 112 years of dormancy.<\/p>\n President Calvin Coolidge was the first to deliver a State of the Union speech over the radio in 1923.<\/p>\n However, the tradition of radio really found its footing in the 1930s.<\/p>\n THEME OF TRUMP\u2019S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS REVEALED<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt mastered radio with his “Fireside Chats” during the Great Depression and World War II. That continued during his State of the Union messages.<\/p>\n President Harry Truman was the first to have the speech broadcast on television in 1947.<\/p>\n President Lyndon Baines Johnson moved the speech to prime time in 1965.<\/p>\n President Bill Clinton had his speeches streamed on the internet in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n Sometimes the speech itself isn\u2019t what\u2019s remembered \u2013 it\u2019s the extracurriculars.<\/p>\n SEVERAL DEMOCRATS TO BOYCOTT TRUMP’S \u2018PEP RALLY\u2019 SPEECH TO CONGRESS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge shortly after takeoff.<\/p>\n Congressional Budget Office employee Lenny Skutnik famously dove into the freezing water to rescue a passenger.<\/p>\n Two weeks later, President Ronald Reagan recognized Skutnik by inviting him to the State of the Union as a guest. Presidents – and lawmakers – have continued this practice.<\/p>\n President Barack Obama<\/a> spoke to a Joint Session of Congress in September 2009 about Obamacare. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC, infamously heckled the president, shouting “You lie!”<\/p>\n Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, ripped up President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> speech after she presided over his State of the Union speech in February 2020.<\/p>\n Police arrested Steve Nikoui after he repeatedly disrupted President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> State of the Union address last year. Nikoui was upset after his son Kareem was killed in Afghanistan. Prosecutors later dropped the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight\u2019s speech is technically not a “State of the Union.” They usually eschew that title this time around, since the president has only been in office a few weeks. Interestingly, nothing in the Constitution requires a speech. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the “President Shall from time to time give Congress information … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}