Senator Cory Booker, a fresh Jersey politician speaking in the legislature Chamber, April 1, 2025. © legislature tv via AP
U.S. Senator for the Democratic organization Cory Booker broke the evidence of the longest speech in U.S. legislature history, giving a 25-hour and five-minute speech in which he condemned Republican president Donald Trump's policy. The speech began late Monday night and ended on Tuesday evening.
Booker spoke, saying he was going to "disturb the average work of the U.S. legislature for as long as physically possible" as part of a protest against the Trump administration.
During the speech he warned against ‘serious and urgent’ a minute for America among ‘hazards’ by the president and many executive decrees, which he signed since taking office in January.
The Senator condemned Trump's cuts in government spending, a simplification in national workforce, trade duties, a change in abroad policy, proposals for annexation of Greenland and Canada, criticism of NATO and Trump's changing stance towards Russia.
“The Trump-Vance administration continues to plunge us into chaos” Booker said.
According to reports, his speech was received as a kind of call to the Democrats to fight. The organization has no majority in any of the chambers of legislature and has been virtually completely deprived of the power to exercise legislative power.
Booker repeatedly urged both the legislature and average Americans to argue Trump's actions.
"These are not average times in our country. I should not be treated as specified in the United States Senate” – he said.
"The threats to the American people and American democracy are serious and urgent, and we all request to do more to argue them."Booker, a 55-year-old, is simply a erstwhile mayor of Newark, fresh Jersey and unsuccessfully seeking the 2020 Democratic organization nomination for President, presently serving a second word in the Senate.
After the speech, he told reporters that he fasted for many days, and last night he did not drink any fluids to prepare for the speech.
The erstwhile evidence of the longest speech in the legislature was established in 1957 by Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes, thus attempting to block an early version of the American civilian Rights Act, which prohibited segregation and racial discrimination.
Booker, 1 of 5 black senators presently in office, said he didn't know if he could break the record, but “when we were closer, [it became] more crucial to me” – due to the fact that ‘really irritated him’ that the evidence belongs to "someone who tried to prevent people like me from getting into the Senate."
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