2017 Donald Trump speech to a joint session of Congress
Date | February 28, 2017 |
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Time | 9:00 p.m. EST |
Duration | 1 hour |
Venue | House Chamber, United States Capitol |
Location | Washington, D.C. |
Coordinates | 38°53′19.8″N 77°00′32.8″W / 38.888833°N 77.009111°W |
Type | Unofficial State of the Union Address |
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Previous | 2016 State of the Union Address |
Next | 2018 State of the Union Address |
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Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, addressed a joint session of the United States Congress on February 28, 2017. It was his first public address before a joint session. Similar to a State of the Union Address, it was delivered before the 115th United States Congress in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the United States Capitol.[6] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Mike Pence, the vice president in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
Reception
Fact-checkers noted that although Trump's speech to Congress had "fewer untrue statements than many of his remarks",
The speech President Trump’s approval rating was 53% on February 24, 2017, according to Rasmussen Reports - Presidential Daily Poll.
Speech
President Trump announced the creation of the
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was the designated survivor and did not attend the address in order to maintain a continuity of government. He was sequestered at a secret secure location for the duration of the event.
Democratic responses
For the Democratic Party, former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear provided the response; activist Astrid Silva of Nevada offered another response for the party in Spanish.[20] Beshear spoke at a diner in Lexington, Kentucky.[21][22]
According to the Democratic think-tank Center for American Progress, Trump made 51 false or manipulative statements during his speech.[24]
Viewership
Trump's speech was aired live on 11 broadcast and cable news networks, and viewed on TV by an estimated 47.7 million people in the United States.[25][26]
Total cable and network viewers[27]
Network | Viewers |
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FNC |
10,765,000 |
NBC | 9,144,000 |
CBS | 7,156,000 |
ABC | 6,065,000 |
CNN | 3,944,000 |
Fox | 3,076,000 |
MSNBC | 2,683,000 |
Broadcast networks Cable news networks
See also
- First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
- List of joint sessions of the United States Congress
- 2018 State of the Union Address
References
- ^ The New York Times (February 28, 2017). "President Trump's Address to the Joint Congress (Full Speech)". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ NBC News (February 28, 2017). "President Donald Trump's 2017 Joint Address To Congress: Full Speech". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ PBS NewsHour (February 28, 2017). "Watch President Trump's full address to a joint session of Congress". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Full speech: Trump delivers first address to Congress". CNN. February 28, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ CNBC (March 1, 2017). "President Donald J. Trump's Address To A Joint Session Of Congress (Full Speech)". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Trump to address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ a b True: Trump's speech included several false or misleading statements, Los Angeles Times (March 1, 2017).
- ^ Glenn Kessler & Michelle Ye Hee, Fact-checking President Trump's address to Congress, Washington Post (February 28, 2017).
- ^ CBS This Morning (March 1, 2017). "How California voters reacted to President Trump's Congress address". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ USA Today (March 1, 2017). "Fact-checking Trump's first address to Congress". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ The New York Times (March 1, 2017). "Analysis: President Donald Trump's Address to Congress". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b CBS News (February 28, 2017). "Breaking down President Trump's address to Congress". Retrieved May 10, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Donald Trump's Congress speech (full text)". CNN. March 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ^ Davis, Julie Hirschfeld; Shear, Michael D.; Baker, Peter (February 28, 2017). "Trump, in Optimistic Address, Asks Congress to End 'Trivial Fights'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ a b Thrush, Glenn (March 1, 2017). "5 Key Takeaways From President Trump's Speech". The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ Smith, Alexander; Hanrahan, Mark (March 1, 2017). "Speech hailed as Trump's most presidential moment was "all him": Pence". NBC News. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ Smith, Lizette Alvarez, Jess Bidgood, Mitch; Tavernise, Sabrina (March 1, 2017). "'Today, He Acted Like a Politician': Voters' Reactions to Trump's Speech". The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Griffin, Andrew (March 1, 2017). "Donald Trump creates Voice agency to publish list of crimes by immigrants". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Presidential address: Trump calms tone in first speech to Congress – as it happened". Guardian. February 28, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Democrats Pick Ex-Kentucky Governor To Respond To Trump Speech To Congress". NPR. February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Steve Beshear's full rebuttal to Trump's joint address (video), Washington Post (March 1, 2017).
- ^ Cheryl Truman, Eatery gains world attention hosting Beshear's reply to Trump speech, Lexington Herald-Tribune (March 1, 2017).
- ^ a b Jaclyn Reiss, Bernie Sanders rails against Trump after speech Archived March 23, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Boston Globe (March 1, 2017).
- ^ "Trump's Speech to Congress Contained Dozens of Lies, Falsehoods, Inaccurate, or Misleading Statements". thenewcivilrightsmovement.com. March 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ^ Ariens, Chris (March 1, 2017). "Pres. Trump's Address to Congress Watched By 47.7 Million on TV". adweek.com.
- ^ "Nearly 48 Million Americans Watch Pres. Donald Trump's First Address to Congress". www.nielsen.com. March 1, 2017. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ Edelman, Adam (March 1, 2018). "Trump's address to joint session of Congress clocks in at 9 million viewers shy of Obama's 2009 speech". NYDailyNews. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
External links
- Remarks by President Trump in Joint Address to Congress at whitehouse.gov
- "Donald Trump's Congress speech (full text)". CNN. March 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- About the address at whitehouse.gov
- The Joint Session of Congress. Feb 28, 2017. Washington, DC. on The White House
- President Trump Addresses Joint Session Congress on C-SPAN
- Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear Delivers Joint Session Democratic Response on C-SPAN
- Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear Delivers Joint Session Democratic Response (transcript)