The practice arises from a duty of the President under the State of the Union Clause of the U.S. Constitution:

He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
— Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution

There won’t be one this year past some pre-taped, carefully edited 10 minute video given by Joey Two Mask.

I cannot even imagine that guy standing there live and unsupervised for 90 minutes, can you?

I don’t think he will give one. It will simply showcase to everyone what a demented old racist he is and the networks will have no choice but to carry it.

He’s not even calling world leaders. He is leaving that up to the whore.

90 minutes is a long time to stand there and sound/look like a leader...

I hear there may not be one due to an unspecified threat by white supremecists

Dems are already saying they fear 'right wing extremists' will use the SOTU Address to attack the Capitol. It gives them a perfect excuse to avoid us seeing sleepy joe bumble incoherently and soil himself on live tv, while blaming the 'right wing extremist' bogey man as the reason. . .

The SOTU never should have turned into the scripted TV pageant it has become. The POTUS can just have his staff write up a thick report no one else will read and have it couriered over to the Capitol.

There's more beef in the real seven minutes of of a four hour tv football game than in a SOTU address.

But as for security concerns, that's total BS. That whole place is more locked down for the SOTU than it is for an inauguration. After all, the only people who need to be there are the elected officials and a handful of guests. So well under 1000 non-security people at most.

I thought there wasn't one in a new President's first term.

It says something if our elected officials fear their constituents that much.

So they're afraid that a bunch of white guys are going to try and attack a ... white guy?

He's under no constitutional duty to "show up" he can send a letter if he wants.

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He's under no constitutional duty to "show up"

The left often talks about precedent. Everybody else showed their tax returns, why not Trump?

Well....every other President has addressed Congress on TV going back decades. Why not Biden?

He is probably moderately aware that he isn’t even a legitimate President. He’s been a fraud his whole sorry existence. He is the epitome of weakness.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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He's under no constitutional duty to "show up"

The left often talks about precedent. Everybody else showed their tax returns, why not Trump?

Well....every other President has addressed Congress on TV going back decades. Why not Biden?

I'm not saying he shouldn't, He doesn't have too. The President can't even call a "joint session" of Congress He's a guest.

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
I thought there wasn't one in a new President's first term.

Correct.

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Originally posted by RogB:

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
I thought there wasn't one in a new President's first term.

Correct.

Where did this idea come from?

President Trump delivered his first state of the union address on 28 February 2017, about a month after he was inaugurated and less than four months after he was elected in November 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._session_of_Congress

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
I thought there wasn't one in a new President's first term.


Correct.

You guys are getting caught up in the semantics and not the reality. All of our recent Presidents have addressed a joint session of Congress during their inauguration year without calling it a State Of The Union Address. They tend to only do that the following 3 years of their term (Kennedy didn't. He stated his first address was a SOTU).

What determines a "State Of The Union Address" is whether or not the President title it as such. If they say it is it is, if they don't say it is, it isn't. Doesn't change the fact that Trump did it, Obama did it, Bush did it, Clinton did it, etc. Where's Biden?

Using your own links, I belief the above posters are correct. The speech given by a newly inaugurated President while it is a speech before the joint Congress is NOT considered a SOTU address. At least according to your own link.

I agree it sounds like semantics. I actually think going back to just sending a written report would be ok, probably better.

Skip to the end.

The State of the Union is that we are F****D big time.

He’s busy plagiarizing as we type.