On Tuesday, March 4, President Donald Trump delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress. During inauguration years the speech is not referred to as a State of the Union address but is instead considered an “address to Congress.”
Here’s what people were searching for on Google leading up to and during the speech.
Despite not being a State of the Union address, that didn’t stop people from searching for the term or using the tag in their social media posts. In the week leading up to the speech, “state of the union 2025” had grown in search traffic by 4,021%.
According to Google Trends, the top questions users had leading up to the speech were:
- When is the joint session address?
- What topics will Trump discuss?
- When is the State of the Union?
- How long are joint sessions of Congress?
- What is a Joint Session of Congress?
Trump’s speech began shortly after 6:10 p.m. PT. During his speech most of the breakout related topics and queries that appeared were related to things or people he mentioned in his speech.
One of the first breakout searches was for United States Representative Al Green, D-Texas. Green. House Speaker Mike Johnson had the House Sergeant of Arms remove Green from the room after Green disrupted Trump’s address to Congress. Another related inquiry was “who got kicked of out of Congress.”
Mount McKinley, a mountain in Alaska, was one of the trending topics during the speech after Trump said renaming the mountain after President William McKinley was one of his accomplishments since taking office. The Obama administration changed the mountain’s name to Denali in 2015.
- Related: Trump vows to change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley
Stacey Abrams, who served as a state representative in Georgia from 2007 to 2017, also became an emerging search result after Trump mentioned her in his speech as he was listing federal funding projects that the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE flagged as questionable government spending.
“$1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?” Trump said.
Trump was referencing a $2 billion grant that was awarded to Power Forward Communities by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2024. Power Forward Communities is an organization led by five nonprofit organizations; United Way Worldwide, Habitat for Humanity International, Enterprise Community Partners, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and Rewiring America. The group’s mission is to “help lower housing costs and utility bills for American families and communities.” The grant Power Forward Communities received was to help support sustainable housing projects.
Abrams was senior council for Rewiring America from 2023 until the end of 2024 according to her spokesperson.
Trump’s speech to Congress ended just before 8 p.m. PT, making it just under 2 hours long.