Presidents generally deliver high-profile speeches to Congress shortly after their inauguration, and the distinction may make little difference.

Trump will speak before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. Here’s why it isn’t officially a State of the Union address.

Trump is expected to talk about what he's done since taking office and more. But the event will not technically be a State of the Union address.

It's called State of the Union. I watched all 99-plus minutes, but I was confused because it was full of myths, mistruths, and "alternate facts."

A president's speech to Congress is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong. That wasn’t President Donald Trump’s plan.

President Trump will stand at the front of the U.S. House chamber to address a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term in office. But the address won't be called the State of the Union.

President Donald Trump will speak before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night for his first address since 2020. However, he won't technically be giving a State of the Union speech. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, invited the president to make the address in January to share his "America First vision for our legislative future."

Judging by his past speeches to Congress, Trump once felt the need to ask lawmakers to pass his agenda. Not so much anymore.

Shortly after he was sworn in for his first term in 1981, Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress, remarks that were called “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery,” according to The American Presidency Project, at the University of California at Santa Barbara.