Posted on 02/22/2021 6:06:31 PM PST by matt04
Date of first SOTU
-Nixon 1970 - Jan 22
-Carter 1978 - Jan 19
-Regan 1982 - Jan 26
-Bush, HW 1990 - Jan 31
-Clinton 1994 - Jan 25
-Bush 2002 - Jan 29
-Obama 2010 - Jan 27
-Trump 2018 - Jan 30
They can’t have one because...you know...Covid...
/s
I believe you are correct. I do not believe a newly elected POTUS is expected to give a SotU. They do give an address to Congress but it’s not the laundry list the SotU is.
C’mon man the guy doesn’t know what planet he’s on. If this was Trump the press would be incensed about it.
Here is the full text:
“Come on. I mean come on man.”
😅
>>There is no requirement that the State of the Union has to be delivered as a speech. From Thomas Jefferson to William Howard Taft all the Presidents just sent a written text to Congress.
Biden’s going to lie as he always does, will Nanzi Pelosi tear up this speech as well?
The end
What was the date of Trump’s address to Congress in 2017?
Everything is so crazy, if we don’t laugh sometimes we’ll go cuckoo.
Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 and was inaugurated in 1969; he did not give his first SOTU until 1970.
I suspect a bit more research will show the same with the others (Carter elected 1976; inaugurated 1977, first SOTU 1978).
Normally the outgoing President gives a SOTU address just before leaving office. Trump did not do that.
Nailed it, Mods lock the thread we have a winner.
It will be “Old School”. A letter to Congress.
That old demented fool can’t address anything.
February 28th.
Biden will not do the SOTU because......... Covid!
That sounds right. In the first year in office, the address tends to be later and it is not a State of the Union.
Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, so I wasn’t going to say anything.
It’s quite touchy around here currently.
> Interesting. I don’t see Biden being able to lucidly speak for an hour though. Wonder how he is going to pull it off? <
He’ll do it remotely because of Covid and domestic terrorism and stuff. And the tape will be heavily edited before it’s released. And the media will love it.
Frankly I do not understand a brand-new having a SOTU.
I’m guessing while the inaugural time was moved far back, the SOTU stayed the same. It would make more sense for the last pres to give a SOTU at the end.
Biden: Frankly, I don’t even know what state I am in and DC is not yet a state, so I can’t tell folks about the state I’m in yet. Maybe the state of confusion, ha ha. And there isn’t any “union” to join as a President.
I’m off the hook.
Trump should give a full State of the Union Address and put it out on Rumble.
It would get millions of views and loads of press.
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