'He's been tightening the text': White House signals State of the Union will be shortest since George H.W. Bush as Trump will leave the Capitol just 45 MINUTES after he begins White House schedule says Donald and Melania Trump will leave the Capitol just 45 minutes after annual address begins President gave third-longest State of the Union in history last year, speaking for 1 hour, 20 minutes The record belongs to Bill Clinton; Richard Nixon 's 29-minute speech in 1972 was the shortest in the modern era Before 2018, all of the speeches to Joint Sessions of Congress that lasted...