Amna Nawaz
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How will Trump describe the country? Here's what the past 9 presidents said #shorts
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March 4, 2025
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1:41Now PlayingNearly every president for the past 50 years has used a descriptive word to describe the state of the union before Congress. President Gerald Ford was the first to attach “is” to the "state of the union" in 1975, creating the hallmark phrase. He was also the only one to draw a clearly negative conclusion, stating that, “the state of the union is ... not good.”
Lisa Desjardins and Deema Zein take you through a rapid list of how each president, whether in an address to a joint session of Congress or a State of the Union speech, has completed the idea.
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