Protocol, as decades of past SOTU addresses show, is for the House Speaker to announce the president by noting that it is their “high privilege and distinct honor” to […] On Tuesday, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) broke tradition when she refused to announce President Donald Trump properly before the State of the Union address.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dissed President Donald Trump when she introduced him at the start of Tuesday’s 2020 State of the Union (SOTU) – shortly after Trump snubbed her handshake attempt. Then, a formal invitation is made by the Speaker of the House to the President typically several weeks before the appointed date. George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address—or “Annual Message” if you prefer—in person and in New York. Since President Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 address, there have been a total of 85 in-person addresses.. (It was the capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790.) Including President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 address, there have been a total of 97 in-person Annual Messages/State of the Union Addresses. In 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt's address was read to a Joint Session of the House and Senate. Trump made headlines Tuesday when he declined to shake Pelosi’s (D, CA) hand at the start of his SOTU address. WASHINGTON – From start to finish, President Donald Trump's State of the Union address was marked by partisan tension that spilled out in … The event began with a …
Because the address is made to a joint session of Congress, the House and Senate must each pass a resolution setting a date and time for the joint session. As virtually all the individuals who fall within the line of presidential succession customarily attend the State of the Union address—the vice president, the speaker of the House, the president pro tem of the Senate, and members of the president’s cabinet—protocols have been instituted to ensure continuity of the office in the event of a catastrophe. The bad blood between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached a boiling point Tuesday night during the annual State of the Union address. Since the President did not deliver the address…