Graphic: Tracking President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union in real time

Minute by minute, what the president talked about in the first State of the Union address of his current presidency.

Key Takeaways From Trump's 2026 State of the Union Address

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Feb. 24, 2026, 8:50 PM EST / Updated Feb. 25, 2026, 12:24 PM EST

By Joe Murphy, Jiachuan Wu and Melinda Yao

President Donald Trump came back to the House Tuesday to deliver the State of the Union address, his first since 2020.

There was no shortage of hot-button issues for him to talk about, from tariffs to immigration raids and ICE deployments, from deposing Venezuela’s leader to threatening to annex Greenland, from inflation and the state of the economy to the Epstein file dumps.

NBC News tracked the major topics Trump touched on during his speech. Topics talked about for less than a minute are not included, and the dozens of minutes of applause are not shown.

In his State of the Union addresses, former President Joe Biden focused on themes such as democracy in 2024, the economy in 2023 and the war in Ukraine in 2022.

In 2020, Trump devoted the most time in his State of the Union address to national security.

Heading into this address, Trump had delivered three of the 10 longest State of the Union speeches of those given in the past 60 years. Tuesday, Trump outlasted all of those, delivering the longest State of the Union address since at least 1966.

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