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One More Time with Feeling

March, 2025

Though we have officially stopped updating the State of the Union site after 2021, the 2025 address was such a radical departure from the tradition, we did it again, maybe one last time. Breach of decorum, consisting of outbursts and interruption from the audience, has become usual since the Biden administration. These outbursts are recorded in the official transcripts, so they have been edited out in order to statistically compare the rhetoric of the president only.

View the analysis of the speeches at https://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net