US Senator Sets Record with 25-Hour Speech Criticizing Trump
New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker Delivers Marathon Address Condemning the President’s Policies
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has etched his name into the history books, delivering the longest speech ever recorded in the U.S. Senate. Over the course of 25 hours and five minutes, Booker passionately denounced Republican President Donald Trump’s policies, speaking uninterrupted from late Monday into Tuesday night.
Taking the floor with the explicit goal of halting Senate proceedings, Booker declared, “I intend to disrupt the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able” in direct opposition to the Trump administration’s agenda.
Throughout his speech, Booker warned of a “grave and urgent” crisis unfolding in America, blaming the president’s policies and a series of executive orders issued since he took office in January. The senator slammed Trump’s cuts to government spending, reductions in the federal workforce, trade tariffs, shifting foreign policy stances, his controversial proposal to annex Greenland and Canada, his repeated criticisms of NATO, and his unpredictable approach toward Russia.
“The Trump-Vance administration continues to plunge us into chaos,” Booker asserted.
His speech, widely viewed as a rallying cry for Democrats, came at a time when the party remains a minority in both congressional chambers and holds little legislative power. Booker repeatedly urged both his Senate colleagues and ordinary Americans to resist Trump’s actions.
“These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate,” he proclaimed. “The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them.”
Booker, 55, a former mayor of Newark and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is currently serving his second Senate term. Following his historic speech, he revealed to reporters that he had fasted for days and even stopped drinking fluids the night before in preparation.
The previous record for the longest Senate speech was set in 1957 by Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an attempt to block an early version of the Civil Rights Act, which sought to end segregation and racial discrimination.
Booker, one of only five Black senators currently serving, admitted he was unsure if he would break the record. But as the hours passed, he became increasingly determined. “Once we got closer, [it] became more and more important to me,” he said, noting that it “really irked” him that the record had been held by “someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate.”
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