Why President Trump's Speech Is Not a State of the Union Address
Channel: NEWS 24H
Date: 2017-03-01

When President Trump addresses Congress on Tuesday, he may make use of some of the State of the Union's best-known tropes or name-drop his guests the way Presidents have done at decades' worth of such speeches.
But here's your reminder that the speech he'll give is not actually a State of the Union address — even though it could have been. The reason it's not goes back to a tradition that was started by Ronald Reagan.
The origins of the President's regularly scheduled speech to Congress can be traced to the Constitution, which requires that the President "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
This rather vague construction has meant that Presidents have differed over the years on how they preferred to fulfill that duty (with a written message or in person, for example) and what such information would look like, but it's generally been the case going back to George Washington's time that the "information on the state of the union" is given by someone who's in a position to know what that state is. In other words, the people who give such speeches are usually people who have been President for a while.
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