Ahead of President Donald Trump's address to Congress Tuesday night, revisiting his 2017 congressional address shows both striking parallels and differences to the current political climate, and a prophetic question about what America will become as it rings in its 250th birthday in 2026. 

During Trump's address in 2017, with Vice President Mike Pence and Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan behind him, Trump opened by acknowledging "threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries" before transitioning to a call for "a renewal of the American spirit."

"In nine years, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding – 250 years since the day we declared our independence," said Trump,who was elected to his first term in November 2016. "It will be one of the great milestones in the history of the world. But what will America look like as we reach our 250th year? What kind of country will we leave for our children?"

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In one of his first executive actions this year kicking off his second non-consecutive term, Trump signed "Celebrating America's 250th Birthday," which will "provide a grand celebration worthy of the momentous occasion of the 250th anniversary of American Independence on July 4, 2026."

In 2017, Trump continued his first address to the nation after the Obama administration by promising to crack down on illegal immigration, implement an America-first agenda and restore the economy. Noticeably, however, there was no mention of Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) nor "radical" gender ideology. 

"These are kind of common themes when he speaks today, and those are gone," Tevi Troy, presidential historian and former HHS secretary under the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Those are not there. But that aside, there are a lot of similarities, and at first I was reading and wondering if it could be given in this administration, because there's a lot of the same stuff."

"He talks about borders in there, for example, and he talks about unleashing the American economy," Troy said. "And so the themes are the same, but some of the circumstances have changed."

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While joint addresses to Congress and State of the Union speeches are typically written well in advance, Trump is known for speaking off the cuff. Troy said Trump may bring up the explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.

"I could see that coming as an improv moment, but it's probably not in the speech's written," he said.

In addition, inflation is going to be on peoples' minds come Tuesday night.

"No one's going to blame Trump for DEI or woke or the problems of Biden," Troy said. "He is in danger at some point in being blamed for inflation. So he's got to handle that one a little bit more carefully."

Trump's 2017 address did not include inflation, but he does mention restarting "the engine of the American economy – making it easier for companies to do business in the United States, and much, much harder for companies to leave our country." 

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So far this year, Trump has signed a slew of executive orders, many aimed at bolstering American manufacturing and the domestic economy as well as removing the U.S. from worldwide climate change commitments. 

Democrats picked freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who represents a swing state, to give the party's official response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. 

"BIG: I’m announcing @SenatorSlotkin will deliver our Democratic response to Trump’s Joint Address. Nothing short of a rising star in our party – she’s dedicated her life to our country. She will layout the fight to tackle the deep challenges we face and chart a path forward," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed on X recently. 

Slotkin was elected to an open Senate seat in Michigan, which was also won by Trump in the same election. She wrote on X, "I'm looking forward to speaking directly to the American people next week. The public expects leaders to level with them on what’s actually happening in our country."

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"From our economic security to our national security, we’ve got to chart a way forward that improves people’s lives in the country we all love, I look forward to laying that out. Tune in," she previewed. 

The senator received a bachelor's degree at Cornell University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

Slotkin spent much of her career in the national security space, serving three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst alongside the U.S. military. After that, she worked in multiple roles in the Pentagon and White House under two different presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In 2014, Obama nominated Slotkin to serve at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.

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She then chose to run for Congress in 2018 in Michigan, where she grew up. 

Slotkin managed to defeat a Republican incumbent in a key Michigan swing district. She served several terms as a member of the House of Representatives before choosing to run for Senate to replace former Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

Despite Trump winning the battleground state in 2024, Slotkin pulled out her own win for Democrats, beating the GOP contender Mike Rogers by less than a percentage point. 

Since coming to the Senate, she's offered some stark criticism of her party, urging Democrats to get away from identity politics. 

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"As a moderate Democrat, I think she was an excellent choice," Jim Manley, former senior communications advisor and spokesman for former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic Caucus, told Fox News Digital.

He said the choice of Slotkin would be "especially" good if "Trump just throws red meat to the base while using the kind of unhinged rhetoric that will turn off swing voters." 

However, "based on years of experience dealing with these when [I was] working for Sen. Reid, they are usually much more of a hassle than they are ever worth," he added. 

Jim Kessler, former senior aide to Schumer, told Fox News Digital he was a fan of Slotkin for the response. "She’s tough, smart and unafraid to ruffle feathers," he said. 

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"She also comes from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party and that’s important as a signal to voters. I expect she’ll focus on bread and butter issues, because right now the middle class is starting to lose confidence in Trump’s handling of the economy," he continued. 

According to Michigan Republican strategist Jason Cabel Roe, Slotkin is "one of the better options Democrats have."

The more "centrist" senator's response comes at a time when Democrats are "in absolute disarray," he said. 

"You are seeing, I think, a real tug of war between the more progressive elements of the party and the more traditional elements of the party," Roe added. 

Slotkin's office declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.

President Donald Trump, the consummate showman, is shining a spotlight on his primetime address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress.

"TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!," the president touted in a social media post on Monday ahead of his first major speech to Congress during his second presidential administration.

As Trump prepares for his address, he's in a stronger polling position than where he found himself eight years ago when he first entered the White House.

A national survey released Monday by Marist College for PBS News and NPR indicated Trump at 45% approval and 49% disapproval. And a survey from CNN released on Sunday put the president's approval rating at 48%, with 52% disapproving. Both surveys were conducted last week.

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But Trump's approval ratings are slightly above water in other new polls, including one for CBS News that was also conducted in recent days and released over the weekend.

Trump has kept up a frenetic pace during his opening six weeks back in the White House with an avalanche of executive orders and actions. His moves not only fulfilled some of his major campaign trail promises, but also allowed the returning president to flex his executive muscles, quickly put his stamp on the federal government, make major cuts to the federal workforce, and also settle some long-standing grievances.

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Trump as of Monday had signed 81 executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, according to a count from Fox News, which far surpasses the rate of any recent presidential predecessors during their first weeks in office.

"Best Opening Month of any President in history," Trump wrote in a social media post last week, as he touted his accomplishments.

Expect Trump in his address to Congress and the nation to showcase the moves – many of them controversial – that he's taken so far. That includes a high-profile crackdown on immigration, threatening tariffs on major trading partners, including Canada and Mexico, and upending the nation's international agenda and freezing foreign aid.

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"We’re seeing a president who is certainly back in the realm of major controversy just over a month since he took the oath of office. And it’s been a flooding-of-the-zone here every day, often multiple times a day," Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, told Fox News Digital.

Miringoff noted, "We’re just seeing a lot of things happening with little time for the public to digest. The net effect of it all is there’s a sense, on the part of the public, that some things are moving just a little too fast."

An average of all the most recent national polls indicates the president's approval ratings are just above water. But Trump's seen his numbers edge down slightly since returning to the White House in late January, when an average of his polls indicated the president's approval rating in the low 50s and his disapproval in the mid 40s.

"The honeymoon is over, and he's actually governing, and that typically does bring numbers down," veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance, the president of New Hampshire-based New England College, told Fox News Digital. "I expect the numbers to continue to slip as the changes in Washington really do begin to impact people's everyday lives."

It's no surprise that the polls indicate a massive partisan divide over Trump's performance. In the CNN survey, 90% of Republicans gave Trump a thumbs up, while nine out of 10 Democrats disapproved of the job he's been doing. Independents by a 59%-41% margin disapproved.

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While Trump's approval ratings for his second term are an improvement from his first term – he started in 2017 in negative territory and remained underwater throughout his tenure in the White House – his numbers are below where former President Joe Biden began his single term in office.

Biden's approval rating hovered in the low to mid 50s during his first six months in the White House, with his disapproval in the upper 30s to low to mid 40s. 

However, Biden's numbers sank into negative territory in the late summer and autumn of 2021, in the wake of his much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and amid soaring inflation and a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation's southern border with Mexico.

Biden's approval ratings stayed underwater throughout the rest of his presidency.

As President Trump prepares to deliver his first address to joint sessions of Congress since taking office in January, here are several of the wildest moments from joint addresses from presidents in the past. 

Dem. Sen. Joe Manchin bucks party to stand and clap for Trump in 2018

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who later became an independent, went viral on social media after he stood when President Trump entered the chamber, and stood and applauded some of Trump’s policy proposals when other Democrats remained sitting.

"That’s the way I was raised in West Virginia. We have respect," Manchin said about his actions at Trump’s first State of the Union address. "There is some civility still yet. There should be civility in this place."

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President Biden blasts GOP lawmakers in 2023 address, prompting jeers from Republicans in the crowd

"Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage — I get it — unless I agree to their economic plans," Biden said to Congress, prompting a shake of the head from then-GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the background and shouts from the crowd and shots of other Republicans shaking their heads. 

"Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans, want Medicare and Social Security to sunset," Biden continued, which caused an even more pronounced shake of the head from McCarthy, who mouthed "no" as Republicans continued to jeer. 

"I’m not saying it’s the majority," Biden continued, which resulted in even more boos from the raucous crowd. 

"Let me give you — anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy — I’ll give you a copy of the proposal," Biden continued to say over increasingly louder shouting from the crowd, which included GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, stood up and gestured her frustration. " That means Congress doesn’t vote — I’m glad to see — no, I tell you, I enjoy conversion."

Biden’s speech continued to devolve from there as Republican outrage interrupted him on multiple occasions. 

Reagan surprises the crowd with first-ever acknowledgment of a guest in the audience

Guests in the audience acknowledged in presidential speeches to joint sessions of Congress have become commonplace in recent years, but President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 address was the first time the practice was rolled out. 

Reagan’s speech came just weeks after Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into Washington’s 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River shortly after taking off in an accident that killed 78 people. 

Three people survived the crash thanks to civilians on the ground who rushed to their aid, including Congressional Budget Office assistant Lenny Skutnik, who stripped off his shoes and clothes and dove into the frigid waters.

Reagan honored Skutnik in his speech, which made honoring people in the crowd a more common theme in the years to come. 

"Just 2 weeks ago, in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the Potomac, we saw again the spirit of American heroism at its finest — the heroism of dedicated rescue workers saving crash victims from icy waters," Reagan said. "And we saw the heroism of one of our young government employees, Lenny Skutnik, who, when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety."

Rep. Boebert heckles Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal during 2022 address

"You put them in, 13 of them," GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert shouted at Biden as he talked about Afghanistan veterans who ended up in caskets due to exposure to toxic burn pits. Boebert was referencing the 13 U.S. service members killed during Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. 

Boebert was wearing an outfit that said "Drill Baby Drill" in opposition to Biden’s energy policies and her outburst drew some boos from the audience.

At another point, Boebert and Greene started chanting "build the wall" when Biden was talking about immigration. 

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 Rep. Joe Wilson yells ‘You lie!’ at President Obama

One of the most remembered outbursts from a State of the Union address came in 2009 when South Carolina GOP Congressman Joe Wilson interrupted President Obama’s address, which at the time was far less common than it later became. 

"There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants," Obama said, talking about his controversial Obamacare plan. "This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

"You lie!" Wilson shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber, causing widespread yelling from other members in the audience.

Wilson later apologized to Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. 

"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill," Wilson said in a written statement. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."

Speaker Pelosi tears up Trump’s 2020 speech

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparked a social media firestorm and cemented herself in State of the Union infamy in February 2020 when she stood up and tore Trump’s speech into pieces after he had finished.

When Fox News asked Pelosi afterward why she did it, she responded, "Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives." She added, "I tore it up. I was trying to find one page with truth on it. I couldn't."

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Pelosi’s outburst came on the heels of Trump’s first impeachment trial, which ended in a Senate acquittal the day after the speech.

"Speaker Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service member's reunion with his family. That's her legacy," the White House tweeted after Pelosi tore up the speech, referencing individuals who Trump mentioned during his address.

Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw, Joseph Wulfsohn and Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump's seventh week in office will spotlight his first joint session of Congress address since his return to the Oval Office in January. 

Trump is scheduled to speak before all members of Congress on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET. 

The speech is not officially called the State of the Union, as Trump has not been in office for a full year, though it operates in a similar fashion. The yearly presidential address is intended to showcase the administration's achievements and policies. 

Trump and his administration have been working at a breakneck pace to realign the federal government with the president's Make America Great Again policies, including Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and his team poring through federal agencies in the search for overspending, fraud and mismanagement, and prioritizing border security. The 47th president has signed at least 76 executive orders since his inauguration in January, in addition to dozens of other executive actions and proclamations. 

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The address comes after Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a fiery meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, which was cut short when Trump asked the Ukraine leader to leave. 

The White House meeting grew tense in approximately its final 10 minutes after Vance said that peace would be reached between Russia and Ukraine through U.S. diplomacy efforts.

"You're gambling with the lives of millions of people," Trump added at one point during the meeting. "You're gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country."

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Vance interjected, asking Zelenskyy whether he had "said thank you once this entire meeting." He also added that Zelenskyy "went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October" and that he should "offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country."

Trump said on social media after the meeting that Zelenskyy could return to the White House "when he is ready for peace." 

Zelenskyy traveled to the U.K. over the weekend, joining European leaders to hash out a potential peace deal. 

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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told local media that he had spoken with Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the U.K. and France taking the reins on crafting a plan for peace that will be presented to the U.S. 

"Let me be clear, we agree with Trump on the urgent need for a durable peace. Now we need to deliver together," Starmer said at a press conference on Sunday. He added that the U.K. is willing to put "boots on the ground" in its support of Ukraine. 

"The U.K. is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Together with others, Europe must do the heavy lifting. But to support peace in our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong U.S. backing," he added. 

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In addition to his address to Congress and the ongoing efforts related to the war in Ukraine this week, Trump is also expected to hit Canada and Mexico with tariffs on Tuesday. 

Trump signed an executive order last month authorizing tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China through the new International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The tariffs included 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on imports from China. 

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Both Canada and Mexico agreed to concessions with Trump the day before the tariffs were set to take effect, pledging to send additional security personnel to their respective borders with the U.S. Trump agreed to pause the tariffs on the two nations for one month in light of the border security concessions. 

The month's pause ends this week, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that tariffs will go into effect on Tuesday, but he did not elaborate on what the tariffs will entail. 

"That is a fluid situation," Lutnick said. 

"There are going to be tariffs on Tuesday on Mexico and Canada. Exactly what they are, we’re going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate," he added. 

EXCLUSIVE: A well-known Catholic bishop will be in the audience for President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress, Fox News Digital has learned.

Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Catholic media organization Word On Fire, is coming to the Tuesday night speech as a guest of first-term Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va.

Moore also invited Barron to participate in a Catholic Mass with lawmakers before the address.

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"Through Word on Fire, Bishop Barron has helped countless souls discover, strengthen, or return to the Catholic Church by proclaiming the Gospel ‘through the culture.’ His use of contemporary media to reach people is innovative and highly effective," Moore said in a statement first shared with Fox News Digital. 

"I am honored to host him as my guest for President Trump’s joint address to Congress, and am equally thrilled to have him celebrate the Mass for my colleagues and me prior to the speech."

Barron called himself a "student of history" in his own statement shared with Fox News Digital accepting the invitation.

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"I want to express my sincere gratitude to Representative Riley Moore for his kind invitation to celebrate Mass for Catholic members of Congress and to attend, as his guest, the State of the Union Address," Barron said.

Barron is bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota. His name has traveled further, however, as a leader in bringing Catholic teachings to more people using digital media.

Trump is making his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night since returning to the White House for his second term.

Senior Trump adviser Jason Miller previewed the speech during "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday morning.

Miller said Trump will discuss getting his 2017 tax cuts extended, "Making sure we get to Mars," our artificial intelligence competition against China, and reversing the high cost of living seen under the previous Democratic administration.

"We need more money for the border to keep it secure," Miller continued, adding Trump would also discuss "making sure we keep peace and stability around the world, but we have to do it with respect and strength."

A left-wing political party tapped Democratic California Rep. Lateefah Simon, a longtime friend and mentee of former Vice President Kamala Harris, to deliver its response to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday. 

"I’m honored to speak on behalf of the Working Families Party," Simon said in a statement last week. "We need a government that is run by and for working people, not billionaires—and that’s what the WFP is fighting for. When I see what’s happening in our country right now, it’s essential that we—as Members of Congress—are showing up for our communities and reminding people that it doesn’t have to be this way."

The Working Families Party, which is a small left-wing political party, has featured Rep. Ayanna Pressley, former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib to deliver its response to a president's joint address to Congress in previous years.  

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Simon is a freshman congresswoman representing California who has shared a long friendship with former 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. She spoke to NPR ahead of the November election last year, detailing that she and Harris first met back in the early 2000s when Harris worked in the San Francisco City Attorney’s office.

"I really believed in her. The young women that I worked with believed in her. But never in a million years did I think that I would work for her," Simon told NPR back in August. 

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She recounted that Harris had encouraged her to earn a college degree, asked her to join her team when she was San Francisco district attorney, given her career advice, and even officiated at her wedding ceremony. 

Simon recalled that when Harris offered her a job in the DA's office, she said: "You can either carry this bullhorn on your back for the rest of your life, demanding that elected officials work for you and the young people that you care about, or you can become a part of my team, and we can actually deconstruct some of these inequities."

Simon went on to cement her status as a social justice advocate in California across the years, including amid the defund-the-police movement of 2020. While serving as board president for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in 2020, she advocated for "defunding and abolishing" policing standards on public transportation in favor of unarmed ambassadors. 

Fox News Digital also previously reported that Simon has had a more than decade-long friendship with a top executive of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front group, including heaping praise on the executive on X. 

Simon won her election to serve as California's 12th congressional district representative in November, taking the reins from former Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, and has since been identified as a "rising star" in the Democratic Party by liberal media outlets. 

Harris officiated Simon's congressional swearing-in ceremony in January, when Simon lauded her "mentor" as a pivotal influence in her career. 

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"I am so honored to have my mentor and former boss, Vice President Kamala Harris," Simon said on January 7. "Since our time together in the district attorney’s office in San Francisco, the vice president has played an integral role in shaping my public service career, and I have learned so much from her.

"She has also paved the way for women across the nation like me who aspire to serve their country at the highest levels. It was a special moment to stand with her today, look her in the eye and begin my journey as the Congresswoman for California’s 12th District."

Trump is set to address Congress at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, his first joint address since returning to the Oval Office in January. The speech – which is not officially called a "State of the Union" speech as Trump has not been in office for the last year – comes just days after a fiery meeting between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. 

The Democratic Party will also issue a response speech to Trump, tapping Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin to speak to voters late Tuesday evening after Trump's speech wraps up. 

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. 

President Donald Trump will address a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4 at 9 p.m. ET.

The forum is not officially a State of the Union address, which traditionally comes during the second, third and fourth year of a presidency.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., invited Trump earlier this month to address Congress on Tuesday.

"Thanks to your strong leadership and bold action in the first days of your presidency, the United States is already experiencing a resurgence of patriotism, unity, and hope for the future," Johnson wrote in a letter to Trump first obtained by Fox News Digital.

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"Your administration and the 119th Congress working together have the chance to make these next four years some of the most consequential in our nation’s history," the speaker wrote.

"To that end, it is my distinct honor and great privilege to invite you to address a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, to share your America First vision for our legislative future. I eagerly await your response."

Fox News Channel, Fox News Digital and Fox News Go will have live coverage of the event Tuesday evening.

Fox News Channel will also preview the speech during its primetime and afternoon programming.

Will Cain will have the latest on the "Will Cain Show" at 4 p.m. ET.

Following him, join Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, Judge Jeanine Pirro and the hosts of "The Five" for more coverage leading up to the event.

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Chief political anchor Bret Baier continues the coverage at 6 p.m. ET on "Special Report," followed by "The Ingraham Angle" with Laura Ingraham at 7 p.m. ET; before Jesse Watters offers a curtain-raiser just before the address at 8 p.m. ET on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

While it is officially an address to a joint session, historically, these speeches tend to follow the same customs as the official State of the Union forums.

The latter are required by the Constitution under Article II Sec. 3 – which stipulates that a president must provide Congress with information about the state of the Union and offer legislative recommendations.

Before the audiovisual and digital ages, the addresses tended to come in print form.

Former President Woodrow Wilson delivered the first address in-person since former President John Adams.

The title itself, "State of the Union," was standardized by former President Harry S. Truman in the 1940s. Truman also offered the first televised State of the Union, as radio gave way to TV.

Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson began the tradition of a primetime address.

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During such addresses, when all three branches of government are typically present, one member of the president’s cabinet is named "designated survivor" – and stays home from the address in case terrorism or another catastrophe leads to the deaths of all assembled in the chamber.

The U.S. Senate keeps records of each designated survivor going back to 1984, when former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce Jr. was designated the potential leader of the nation if former President Ronald Reagan and everyone else in attendance perished.

Notable designated survivors have included then-future New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during former President Bill Clinton’s 1999 address, former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley – son of the famed Chicago Democratic Party boss – in 1998, and then-Attorney General Eric Holder in 2009.

Most recently, former President Joe Biden’s education chief, Miguel Cardona, was 2024’s designated survivor.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.