President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday lasted for more than 90 minutes, the longest in at least 60 years.
The president's remarks surpassed former President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address in 2000 which came in at an hour and 28 minutes, according to which tracks the lengths of each speech since 1964.
Trump's timing includes several long pauses for rounds of applause as well as a from Democrats in the audience.
The first joint address a president delivers after being sworn in is a State of the Union address, but the speeches have similar structures and both take place in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
While Trump's remarks may have the longest duration in decades, other former presidents have produced speeches with higher word counts.
Though it has become commonplace for presidential joint addresses to be televised, primetime events, instead.
The last president to submit a written address was former President Jimmy Carter in 1981. Carter's final speech also holds the record for the address with the Preliminary numbers from the American Presidency Project estimate Trump's speech had a total of 9,831 words — one of the highest word counts among delivered speeches.
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