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Trump Congressional Address Draws 36.6 Million Viewers, Up 13% From Biden 2024 State of the Union
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Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress drew a solid audience on Tuesday night.
The address, which lasted roughly an hour and 4o minutes and was broadcast across 15 networks, drew a total of 36.6 million people, according to Nielsen figures. Viewership peaked at 37.9 million viewers between 9:45 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. ET.
This year’s audience marked a more than 13% increase compared to the 32.2 million viewers that watched former president Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in 2024. However, the figure is down from Trump’s 2017, 2019 and 2020 addresses, which brought in 47.74 million, 45.6 million and 46.79 million viewers, respectively, per Nielsen.
Of the total 36.6 million viewers, 2.1 million, or 5.7%, were ages 18 to 34; 7.52 million, or 20.5% were ages 35 to 54; and 25.91 million, or 70.7%, were ages 55 and older.
Networks included in Nielsen’s figure were ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Merit Street, Telemundo, Univision, PBS, CNN, CNNe, FOX Business, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, NewsMax, NewsNation.
Topics hit by Trump during the address included immigration, tariffs, his crackdown on DEI and blaming Biden for the rise in egg prices. The length of Trump’s 2025 speech beats the previous record held by Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address on January 23, 2000, at 1 hour and 28 minutes.
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