“I” and “We” in the State of the Union, 1790–2026

About this chart

Each year's State of the Union message, from Washington's first in 1790 to 2026, is a point on two lines: the mint line is how often it says we, us or our, and the coral line how often it says I, me or my, both per 1,000 words. The space between them is green where “we” is ahead and coral where “I” is ahead. The readout gives the year, which list leads and by how much, the President, whether the message was spoken or sent in writing, its length and the two rates. The animation draws the record over sixty seconds, holds on the last year for three seconds, and loops. The scrubber under the chart marks each year and pauses on any of them.

Method

Every annual message a President has sent or delivered to Congress, from George Washington's first on January 8, 1790, to February 24, 2026, one for each year — the same messages, texts and word counting as “The State of the Union in 19 Words”. There was none in 1933: Hoover's last came in December 1932 and Roosevelt's first in January 1934, so the lines break there. Where a year has more than one, the chart uses the spoken annual address, else the written annual message, else a new President's first address to a joint session of Congress (1989, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2017, 2021 and 2025); in 1790 it uses Washington's first of two. From 1801 to 1912, and in some later years, the message was sent in writing rather than spoken; the readout says which. The texts come from government printings: Richardson's Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents for 1790–1892, in Project Gutenberg's transcription; Foreign Relations of the United States for 1893–1932; the bound Congressional Record for Taft's 1911 and 1912 messages and for 1934–1992; and the Compilation of Presidential Documents, as delivered, for 1993–2026. The spoken addresses of 1934–1992 are as printed in the Congressional Record, which sometimes differs a little from the text the White House released. Lines the Record's scans lost (in 1912, 1949 and 1957, and in the written messages of 1974 and 1979–1981) stay lost. Each text runs from the salutation to the last sentence; signatures, editors' notes, marks of applause and laughter, statistical tables and the words of anyone but the President are removed; the President's own quotations of others stay and count. The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was used only to check each text word for word; none of its text is used or published here.

The two word lists were fixed, and saved, before any message was counted: “I” counts I, me, my, mine and myself; “we” counts we, us, our, ours and ourselves. A word is a run of letters, ignoring capitals; a word before an apostrophe counts (“I'm” counts for I, “we're” for we). “US” written in capitals is the country, not “us”, and is never counted (it skips two real uses of “us”, one in 1939 and one in a 1973 heading). Each line is the list's words per 1,000 words of that year's message, so long and short messages compare fairly. The gap is filled with the color of the list that is ahead; the lead in the readout is the difference between the two rates as shown, and a year with equal counts (1794 and 1816) reads “Even”. The counts describe the words only; they say nothing about what a President meant.

Data sources

Data table

Every year's State of the Union message from 1790 to 2026, with its length, how many times it says I, me, my, mine or myself and we, us, our, ours or ourselves, each per 1,000 words, and which is ahead, from the texts and word lists described in the Method. Counted by DataSlapper.

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“I” and “We” in the State of the Union, 1790–2026
Year	President	Message	Words	“I” words	“I” per 1,000	“We” words	“We” per 1,000	Ahead	By
1790	George Washington	Spoken	1,093	15	13.7	14	12.8	“I”	0.9
1791	George Washington	Spoken	2,263	9	4.0	4	1.8	“I”	2.2
1792	George Washington	Spoken	2,103	30	14.3	15	7.1	“I”	7.2
1793	George Washington	Spoken	1,970	22	11.2	24	12.2	“We”	1.0
1794	George Washington	Spoken	2,919	31	10.6	31	10.6	Even
1795	George Washington	Spoken	1,991	23	11.6	56	28.1	“We”	16.5
1796	George Washington	Spoken	2,867	27	9.4	28	9.8	“We”	0.4
1797	John Adams	Spoken	2,057	21	10.2	27	13.1	“We”	2.9
1798	John Adams	Spoken	2,218	14	6.3	47	21.2	“We”	14.9
1799	John Adams	Spoken	1,505	20	13.3	22	14.6	“We”	1.3
1800	John Adams	Spoken	1,372	10	7.3	33	24.1	“We”	16.8
1801	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	3,234	21	6.5	77	23.8	“We”	17.3
1802	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,200	6	2.7	63	28.6	“We”	25.9
1803	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,257	8	3.5	61	27.0	“We”	23.5
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,095	7	3.3	49	23.4	“We”	20.1
1805	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,920	14	4.8	82	28.1	“We”	23.3
1806	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,863	12	4.2	50	17.5	“We”	13.3
1807	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,383	12	5.0	65	27.3	“We”	22.3
1808	Thomas Jefferson	Sent in writing	2,674	23	8.6	54	20.2	“We”	11.6
1809	James Madison	Sent in writing	1,834	8	4.4	34	18.5	“We”	14.1
1810	James Madison	Sent in writing	2,440	10	4.1	23	9.4	“We”	5.3
1811	James Madison	Sent in writing	2,271	9	4.0	49	21.6	“We”	17.6
1812	James Madison	Sent in writing	3,251	6	1.8	42	12.9	“We”	11.1
1813	James Madison	Sent in writing	3,286	3	0.9	49	14.9	“We”	14.0
1814	James Madison	Sent in writing	2,115	2	0.9	34	16.1	“We”	15.2
1815	James Madison	Sent in writing	3,136	5	1.6	26	8.3	“We”	6.7
1816	James Madison	Sent in writing	3,357	31	9.2	31	9.2	Even
1817	James Monroe	Sent in writing	4,419	23	5.2	63	14.3	“We”	9.1
1818	James Monroe	Sent in writing	4,394	9	2.0	52	11.8	“We”	9.8
1819	James Monroe	Sent in writing	4,700	15	3.2	37	7.9	“We”	4.7
1820	James Monroe	Sent in writing	3,489	10	2.9	60	17.2	“We”	14.3
1821	James Monroe	Sent in writing	5,850	7	1.2	50	8.5	“We”	7.3
1822	James Monroe	Sent in writing	4,796	30	6.3	52	10.8	“We”	4.5
1823	James Monroe	Sent in writing	6,360	16	2.5	81	12.7	“We”	10.2
1824	James Monroe	Sent in writing	8,417	19	2.3	148	17.6	“We”	15.3
1825	John Quincy Adams	Sent in writing	9,102	18	2.0	118	13.0	“We”	11.0
1826	John Quincy Adams	Sent in writing	7,720	11	1.4	118	15.3	“We”	13.9
1827	John Quincy Adams	Sent in writing	6,980	11	1.6	40	5.7	“We”	4.1
1828	John Quincy Adams	Sent in writing	7,293	16	2.2	98	13.4	“We”	11.2
1829	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	10,506	69	6.6	137	13.0	“We”	6.4
1830	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	15,047	165	11.0	174	11.6	“We”	0.6
1831	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	7,189	73	10.2	156	21.7	“We”	11.5
1832	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	7,919	67	8.5	154	19.4	“We”	10.9
1833	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	7,917	73	9.2	66	8.3	“I”	0.9
1834	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	13,436	129	9.6	141	10.5	“We”	0.9
1835	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	15,609	121	7.8	196	12.6	“We”	4.8
1836	Andrew Jackson	Sent in writing	12,360	73	5.9	114	9.2	“We”	3.3
1837	Martin Van Buren	Sent in writing	11,426	70	6.1	85	7.4	“We”	1.3
1838	Martin Van Buren	Sent in writing	11,469	46	4.0	80	7.0	“We”	3.0
1839	Martin Van Buren	Sent in writing	13,412	99	7.4	174	13.0	“We”	5.6
1840	Martin Van Buren	Sent in writing	8,977	49	5.5	60	6.7	“We”	1.2
1841	John Tyler	Sent in writing	8,222	54	6.6	60	7.3	“We”	0.7
1842	John Tyler	Sent in writing	8,393	37	4.4	44	5.2	“We”	0.8
1843	John Tyler	Sent in writing	8,009	51	6.4	59	7.4	“We”	1.0
1844	John Tyler	Sent in writing	9,314	62	6.7	91	9.8	“We”	3.1
1845	James K. Polk	Sent in writing	16,019	88	5.5	189	11.8	“We”	6.3
1846	James K. Polk	Sent in writing	18,117	60	3.3	228	12.6	“We”	9.3
1847	James K. Polk	Sent in writing	16,332	68	4.2	268	16.4	“We”	12.2
1848	James K. Polk	Sent in writing	21,235	62	2.9	243	11.4	“We”	8.5
1849	Zachary Taylor	Sent in writing	7,611	80	10.5	103	13.5	“We”	3.0
1850	Millard Fillmore	Sent in writing	8,311	93	11.2	76	9.1	“I”	2.1
1851	Millard Fillmore	Sent in writing	13,164	86	6.5	104	7.9	“We”	1.4
1852	Millard Fillmore	Sent in writing	9,846	76	7.7	120	12.2	“We”	4.5
1853	Franklin Pierce	Sent in writing	9,543	69	7.2	91	9.5	“We”	2.3
1854	Franklin Pierce	Sent in writing	10,099	60	5.9	109	10.8	“We”	4.9
1855	Franklin Pierce	Sent in writing	11,589	41	3.5	61	5.3	“We”	1.8
1856	Franklin Pierce	Sent in writing	10,470	40	3.8	54	5.2	“We”	1.4
1857	James Buchanan	Sent in writing	13,569	85	6.3	165	12.2	“We”	5.9
1858	James Buchanan	Sent in writing	16,260	123	7.6	166	10.2	“We”	2.6
1859	James Buchanan	Sent in writing	12,239	99	8.1	109	8.9	“We”	0.8
1860	James Buchanan	Sent in writing	13,985	109	7.8	128	9.2	“We”	1.4
1861	Abraham Lincoln	Sent in writing	6,953	74	10.6	55	7.9	“I”	2.7
1862	Abraham Lincoln	Sent in writing	8,292	55	6.6	129	15.6	“We”	9.0
1863	Abraham Lincoln	Sent in writing	6,076	45	7.4	44	7.2	“I”	0.2
1864	Abraham Lincoln	Sent in writing	5,801	28	4.8	54	9.3	“We”	4.5
1865	Andrew Johnson	Sent in writing	9,221	56	6.1	127	13.8	“We”	7.7
1866	Andrew Johnson	Sent in writing	7,068	19	2.7	75	10.6	“We”	7.9
1867	Andrew Johnson	Sent in writing	11,921	51	4.3	165	13.8	“We”	9.5
1868	Andrew Johnson	Sent in writing	9,688	28	2.9	110	11.4	“We”	8.5
1869	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	7,647	60	7.8	56	7.3	“I”	0.5
1870	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	8,705	58	6.7	97	11.1	“We”	4.4
1871	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	6,459	62	9.6	30	4.6	“I”	5.0
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	9,689	70	7.2	44	4.5	“I”	2.7
1873	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	9,946	90	9.0	51	5.1	“I”	3.9
1874	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	9,723	103	10.6	53	5.5	“I”	5.1
1875	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	12,146	97	8.0	99	8.2	“We”	0.2
1876	Ulysses S. Grant	Sent in writing	6,728	64	9.5	23	3.4	“I”	6.1
1877	Rutherford B. Hayes	Sent in writing	10,617	110	10.4	76	7.2	“I”	3.2
1878	Rutherford B. Hayes	Sent in writing	7,783	28	3.6	43	5.5	“We”	1.9
1879	Rutherford B. Hayes	Sent in writing	11,536	59	5.1	43	3.7	“I”	1.4
1880	Rutherford B. Hayes	Sent in writing	13,095	72	5.5	110	8.4	“We”	2.9
1881	Chester A. Arthur	Sent in writing	12,926	97	7.5	101	7.8	“We”	0.3
1882	Chester A. Arthur	Sent in writing	9,853	107	10.9	52	5.3	“I”	5.6
1883	Chester A. Arthur	Sent in writing	7,927	72	9.1	62	7.8	“I”	1.3
1884	Chester A. Arthur	Sent in writing	8,690	71	8.2	85	9.8	“We”	1.6
1885	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	19,674	88	4.5	182	9.3	“We”	4.8
1886	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	15,085	90	6.0	145	9.6	“We”	3.6
1887	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	5,250	11	2.1	78	14.9	“We”	12.8
1888	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	13,027	67	5.1	130	10.0	“We”	4.9
1889	Benjamin Harrison	Sent in writing	12,912	86	6.7	133	10.3	“We”	3.6
1890	Benjamin Harrison	Sent in writing	11,423	65	5.7	110	9.6	“We”	3.9
1891	Benjamin Harrison	Sent in writing	16,130	104	6.4	122	7.6	“We”	1.2
1892	Benjamin Harrison	Sent in writing	13,293	101	7.6	180	13.5	“We”	5.9
1893	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	12,131	60	4.9	109	9.0	“We”	4.1
1894	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	15,688	83	5.3	124	7.9	“We”	2.6
1895	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	14,561	62	4.3	255	17.5	“We”	13.2
1896	Grover Cleveland	Sent in writing	15,221	50	3.3	173	11.4	“We”	8.1
1897	William McKinley	Sent in writing	12,061	61	5.1	108	9.0	“We”	3.9
1898	William McKinley	Sent in writing	20,025	109	5.4	153	7.6	“We”	2.2
1899	William McKinley	Sent in writing	22,627	99	4.4	215	9.5	“We”	5.1
1900	William McKinley	Sent in writing	18,920	93	4.9	141	7.5	“We”	2.6
1901	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	19,686	27	1.4	337	17.1	“We”	15.7
1902	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	9,801	24	2.4	166	16.9	“We”	14.5
1903	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	15,054	32	2.1	151	10.0	“We”	7.9
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	17,605	68	3.9	214	12.2	“We”	8.3
1905	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	25,217	136	5.4	265	10.5	“We”	5.1
1906	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	23,720	93	3.9	220	9.3	“We”	5.4
1907	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	27,551	123	4.5	223	8.1	“We”	3.6
1908	Theodore Roosevelt	Sent in writing	19,437	73	3.8	175	9.0	“We”	5.2
1909	William Howard Taft	Sent in writing	13,856	111	8.0	46	3.3	“I”	4.7
1910	William Howard Taft	Sent in writing	27,207	225	8.3	97	3.6	“I”	4.7
1911	William Howard Taft	Sent in writing	23,626	193	8.2	95	4.0	“I”	4.2
1912	William Howard Taft	Sent in writing	25,247	193	7.6	201	8.0	“We”	0.4
1913	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	3,565	53	14.9	90	25.2	“We”	10.3
1914	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	4,552	42	9.2	242	53.2	“We”	44.0
1915	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	7,713	64	8.3	221	28.7	“We”	20.4
1916	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	2,125	29	13.6	17	8.0	“I”	5.6
1917	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	3,932	44	11.2	115	29.2	“We”	18.0
1918	Woodrow Wilson	Spoken	5,475	91	16.6	103	18.8	“We”	2.2
1919	Woodrow Wilson	Sent in writing	4,764	37	7.8	46	9.7	“We”	1.9
1920	Woodrow Wilson	Sent in writing	2,696	39	14.5	24	8.9	“I”	5.6
1921	Warren G. Harding	Spoken	5,602	37	6.6	152	27.1	“We”	20.5
1922	Warren G. Harding	Spoken	5,755	27	4.7	151	26.2	“We”	21.5
1923	Calvin Coolidge	Spoken	6,702	35	5.2	124	18.5	“We”	13.3
1924	Calvin Coolidge	Sent in writing	6,942	52	7.5	129	18.6	“We”	11.1
1925	Calvin Coolidge	Sent in writing	10,799	35	3.2	200	18.5	“We”	15.3
1926	Calvin Coolidge	Sent in writing	10,250	47	4.6	212	20.7	“We”	16.1
1927	Calvin Coolidge	Sent in writing	8,723	6	0.7	143	16.4	“We”	15.7
1928	Calvin Coolidge	Sent in writing	7,989	37	4.6	124	15.5	“We”	10.9
1929	Herbert Hoover	Sent in writing	10,885	68	6.2	145	13.3	“We”	7.1
1930	Herbert Hoover	Sent in writing	4,440	32	7.2	51	11.5	“We”	4.3
1931	Herbert Hoover	Sent in writing	5,649	42	7.4	116	20.5	“We”	13.1
1932	Herbert Hoover	Sent in writing	3,989	30	7.5	65	16.3	“We”	8.8
1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	2,210	29	13.1	58	26.2	“We”	13.1
1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,537	42	11.9	82	23.2	“We”	11.3
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,868	47	12.2	77	19.9	“We”	7.7
1937	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	2,701	19	7.0	50	18.5	“We”	11.5
1938	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	4,650	43	9.2	74	15.9	“We”	6.7
1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,734	16	4.3	145	38.8	“We”	34.5
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,116	14	4.5	109	35.0	“We”	30.5
1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,271	18	5.5	133	40.7	“We”	35.2
1942	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	3,394	11	3.2	142	41.8	“We”	38.6
1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Spoken	4,477	34	7.6	177	39.5	“We”	31.9
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sent in writing	3,791	37	9.8	103	27.2	“We”	17.4
1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sent in writing	8,226	34	4.1	287	34.9	“We”	30.8
1946	Harry S Truman	Sent in writing	26,980	160	5.9	433	16.0	“We”	10.1
1947	Harry S Truman	Spoken	5,943	48	8.1	170	28.6	“We”	20.5
1948	Harry S Truman	Spoken	5,087	32	6.3	261	51.3	“We”	45.0
1949	Harry S Truman	Spoken	3,316	24	7.2	154	46.4	“We”	39.2
1950	Harry S Truman	Spoken	5,064	33	6.5	264	52.1	“We”	45.6
1951	Harry S Truman	Spoken	4,001	21	5.2	241	60.2	“We”	55.0
1952	Harry S Truman	Spoken	5,266	43	8.2	289	54.9	“We”	46.7
1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	6,986	48	6.9	197	28.2	“We”	21.3
1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	5,973	52	8.7	182	30.5	“We”	21.8
1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	7,045	86	12.2	229	32.5	“We”	20.3
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Sent in writing	8,252	66	8.0	235	28.5	“We”	20.5
1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	4,018	23	5.7	129	32.1	“We”	26.4
1958	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	4,904	45	9.2	173	35.3	“We”	26.1
1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	5,053	43	8.5	196	38.8	“We”	30.3
1960	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Spoken	5,666	62	10.9	194	34.2	“We”	23.3
1961	John F. Kennedy	Spoken	5,225	50	9.6	201	38.5	“We”	28.9
1962	John F. Kennedy	Spoken	6,511	47	7.2	279	42.9	“We”	35.7
1963	John F. Kennedy	Spoken	5,352	34	6.4	162	30.3	“We”	23.9
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	3,176	25	7.9	149	46.9	“We”	39.0
1965	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	4,415	71	16.1	201	45.5	“We”	29.4
1966	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	5,508	71	12.9	205	37.2	“We”	24.3
1967	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	7,086	93	13.1	343	48.4	“We”	35.3
1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	4,845	77	15.9	196	40.5	“We”	24.6
1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	Spoken	4,081	116	28.4	127	31.1	“We”	2.7
1970	Richard M. Nixon	Spoken	4,455	48	10.8	184	41.3	“We”	30.5
1971	Richard M. Nixon	Spoken	4,451	54	12.1	127	28.5	“We”	16.4
1972	Richard M. Nixon	Spoken	3,900	37	9.5	163	41.8	“We”	32.3
1973	Richard M. Nixon	Sent in writing	26,690	266	10.0	639	23.9	“We”	13.9
1974	Richard M. Nixon	Spoken	5,065	94	18.6	204	40.3	“We”	21.7
1975	Gerald R. Ford	Spoken	4,022	71	17.7	128	31.8	“We”	14.1
1976	Gerald R. Ford	Spoken	4,967	97	19.5	185	37.2	“We”	17.7
1977	Gerald R. Ford	Spoken	4,682	109	23.3	159	34.0	“We”	10.7
1978	Jimmy Carter	Spoken	4,576	57	12.5	228	49.8	“We”	37.3
1979	Jimmy Carter	Spoken	3,261	28	8.6	175	53.7	“We”	45.1
1980	Jimmy Carter	Spoken	3,480	28	8.0	167	48.0	“We”	40.0
1981	Jimmy Carter	Sent in writing	33,551	328	9.8	745	22.2	“We”	12.4
1982	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	5,080	43	8.5	198	39.0	“We”	30.5
1983	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	5,512	50	9.1	234	42.5	“We”	33.4
1984	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	4,894	46	9.4	229	46.8	“We”	37.4
1985	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	4,210	23	5.5	213	50.6	“We”	45.1
1986	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	3,401	39	11.5	157	46.2	“We”	34.7
1987	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	3,670	56	15.3	167	45.5	“We”	30.2
1988	Ronald Reagan	Spoken	4,793	66	13.8	174	36.3	“We”	22.5
1989	George Bush	Spoken	4,729	124	26.2	189	40.0	“We”	13.8
1990	George Bush	Spoken	3,698	58	15.7	161	43.5	“We”	27.8
1991	George Bush	Spoken	3,930	29	7.4	185	47.1	“We”	39.7
1992	George Bush	Spoken	5,024	153	30.5	162	32.2	“We”	1.7
1993	William J. Clinton	Spoken	6,955	139	20.0	305	43.9	“We”	23.9
1994	William J. Clinton	Spoken	7,367	116	15.7	311	42.2	“We”	26.5
1995	William J. Clinton	Spoken	9,141	155	17.0	409	44.7	“We”	27.7
1996	William J. Clinton	Spoken	6,303	106	16.8	288	45.7	“We”	28.9
1997	William J. Clinton	Spoken	6,701	83	12.4	348	51.9	“We”	39.5
1998	William J. Clinton	Spoken	7,258	109	15.0	301	41.5	“We”	26.5
1999	William J. Clinton	Spoken	7,443	115	15.5	356	47.8	“We”	32.3
2000	William J. Clinton	Spoken	9,016	178	19.7	403	44.7	“We”	25.0
2001	George W. Bush	Spoken	4,333	80	18.5	203	46.8	“We”	28.3
2002	George W. Bush	Spoken	3,825	51	13.3	170	44.4	“We”	31.1
2003	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,340	39	7.3	179	33.5	“We”	26.2
2004	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,157	46	8.9	176	34.1	“We”	25.2
2005	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,018	48	9.6	185	36.9	“We”	27.3
2006	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,290	42	7.9	254	48.0	“We”	40.1
2007	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,522	39	7.1	225	40.7	“We”	33.6
2008	George W. Bush	Spoken	5,691	47	8.3	275	48.3	“We”	40.0
2009	Barack Obama	Spoken	6,059	98	16.2	275	45.4	“We”	29.2
2010	Barack Obama	Spoken	7,207	126	17.5	309	42.9	“We”	25.4
2011	Barack Obama	Spoken	6,860	77	11.2	348	50.7	“We”	39.5
2012	Barack Obama	Spoken	7,013	103	14.7	211	30.1	“We”	15.4
2013	Barack Obama	Spoken	6,794	62	9.1	322	47.4	“We”	38.3
2014	Barack Obama	Spoken	7,008	92	13.1	266	38.0	“We”	24.9
2015	Barack Obama	Spoken	6,725	107	15.9	341	50.7	“We”	34.8
2016	Barack Obama	Spoken	6,041	87	14.4	287	47.5	“We”	33.1
2017	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	5,000	57	11.4	248	49.6	“We”	38.2
2018	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	5,826	54	9.3	259	44.5	“We”	35.2
2019	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	5,576	65	11.7	231	41.4	“We”	29.7
2020	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	6,238	89	14.3	202	32.4	“We”	18.1
2021	Joseph R. Biden	Spoken	7,940	182	22.9	289	36.4	“We”	13.5
2022	Joseph R. Biden	Spoken	7,653	141	18.4	255	33.3	“We”	14.9
2023	Joseph R. Biden	Spoken	9,134	203	22.2	322	35.3	“We”	13.1
2024	Joseph R. Biden	Spoken	7,994	270	33.8	149	18.6	“I”	15.2
2025	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	9,955	169	17.0	361	36.3	“We”	19.3
2026	Donald J. Trump	Spoken	10,509	209	19.9	291	27.7	“We”	7.8

Updated 2026

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