Trump’s 2025 Address to Congress Draws 36.6 Million Viewers, Lowest of His Speeches

The 100-minute speech marked a 13% increase from Biden’s 2024 address but fell short of Trump’s first-term audience numbers.

President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on March 4, 2025, drew an estimated 36.6 million viewers across 15 networks, according to Nielsen.
The speech marked a 13% increase in viewership compared to former President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address, which drew 32.2 million viewers.
Despite the increase over Biden’s numbers, the audience was the smallest for any of Trump’s five addresses to Congress, with his first in 2017 drawing 47.7 million viewers.
The viewership skewed older, with 70.7% of the audience aged 55 and older, while only 5.7% were aged 18 to 34.
The 100-minute speech, Trump’s longest to date, peaked at 37.9 million viewers between 9:45 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. ET.