Hot mic captures JD Vance’s one criticism before Donald Trump’s address to Congress

Vance called it (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The American Presidency Project tracks the lengths of president of the US’ speeches and its archives reveal Trump beat a fair few of his predecessors and by quite a significant amount of time too.

While former presidents such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan reached only to around the mid-forties, in 2000, former US President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address clocked in at 88 minutes and 49 seconds – yet, that still isn’t as long as Trump went on for last night.

Trump even beat his own record from his 2019 address which came in at 82 minutes 25 seconds.

Awks. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

And despite Johnson’s comment about Biden, Biden’s top length of speech was only a mere 67 minutes 17 seconds in comparison to Trump’s total last night – 99 minutes and 32 seconds.

One Twitter user who saw the clip of Johnson and Vance guessed: “I think Vance just said in his ear ‘This is going to be the longest speech ever’.”

Granted, the 47th President of the US wasn’t actually speaking for a solid 99 minutes 32 seconds – dragging out the time by waiting to lap up applause and also being interrupted by a heckler.