Technically, tonight’s speech wasn’t “the state of the alliance.” They usually avoid the title this time, as the president only serves for a few weeks.
Interestingly, nothing in the Constitution requires speech.
Article 3, Article 2 of the Constitution says: “The President shall provide Congress with information about the status of the alliance from time to time.”
President George Washington made his first such speech in New York, but President Thomas Jefferson stopped it. He thought it was too much like a speech in the crown.
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President Donald Trump awaits meeting at the White House for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Washington, DC on February 27, 2025 (Carl Court – Pool/Getty Image)
Until the early 20th century, the “State of Alliance” was a written document. At that time, President Woodrow Wilson resumed speech customs after 112 years of dormant.
President Calvin Coolidge was the first person to deliver an ITU speech on radio in 1923.
However, the broadcasting tradition did find its place in the 1930s.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt mastered the radio during the Great Depression and World War II with his “fireside chat.” In his ITU message, this continued.
Then-President Joe Biden delivered his annual ITU speech at a joint House Parliamentary Meeting in the Capital Building in Washington, DC on March 7, 2024. (Shawn the-pool/getty image)
President Harry Truman was the first person to broadcast a speech on television in 1947.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson moved his speech to prime time in 1965.
President Bill Clinton gave a speech on the internet in the mid-1990s.
Sometimes the speech itself is not remembered – it is an extracurricular activity.
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In January 1982, shortly after taking off, Florida Air Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge.
President Donald Trump delivered his second presidential inauguration speech on January 20, 2024. (Fox News)
Lenny Skutnik, an employee of the Congressional Budget Office, famously fell into freezing water to rescue passengers.
Two weeks later, President Ronald Reagan invited Skutnik to join the league as a guest. President and legislators – Continue this practice.
President Barack Obama spoke about Obama’s health care in a joint meeting in Congress in September 2009. R-SC Rep. Joe Wilson notoriously mocked the president, yelling “You lie!”
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D-CA’s former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over his ITU speech in February 2020.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up President Donald Trump’s Congressional speech. (Getty)
Steve Nikoui arrested Steve Nikoui during his many interruptions to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year. Nikoui is frustrated after his son Kareem was killed in Afghanistan. The prosecutor later waived the charges.
