2018 State of the Union Address
The 2018 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, on January 30, 2018, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 115th United States Congress. It was Trump's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Mike Pence, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
Full video of the speech as published by the White House | |
| Date | January 30, 2018 |
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| Time | 9:00 p.m. EST |
| Duration | 1 hour, 20 minutes |
| Venue | House Chamber, United States Capitol |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | 38°53′19.8″N 77°00′32.8″W |
| Type | State of the Union Address |
| Participants | |
| Footage | C-SPAN |
| Previous | 2017 Joint session speech |
| Next | 2019 State of the Union Address |
| Website | Full text by archives.gov |
The Address was watched by 45.6 million viewers. There were also 21 million interactions regarding the address on social media.
U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III and Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán gave the Democratic Party's response in English and Spanish, respectively.