Hot mic captures JD Vance's one criticism before Donald Trump’s address to Congress

Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had a nice little joke before Donald Trump's first joint session of Congress.

Yesterday (March 4), Donald Trump addressed Congress for his first joint session since becoming the 47th President of the United States.

And while he and Vice President JD Vance may've put on a strong united front in their bulldogging of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the head of Ukraine visited the White House's Oval Office last week, that didn't stop Vance making a snide comment ahead of Trump's address.

A clip from the session shows vice president Vance greeting House Speaker Mike Johnson, the latter joking the pair 'didn't wear the same tie'.

Vance responds: "We could have coordinated I guess, but..."

The vice president then notes he's 'gotta be honest' with Johnson, leaning in to his ear to whisper to him, whatever he says not quite picked up.

Leaning back out, he adds: "By the way, I think the speech is going to be great. But I don’t know how you do this for 90 minutes."

Pushing down a microphone in front of the pair midway through speaking, Johnson responds: "The hardest thing was doing it during Biden, when his speech was a stupid campaign speech."

Alas, for all those involved, Trump's speech actually lasted longer than 90 minutes, going on to become the longest in at least 60 years.

Vance called it (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The American Presidency Project tracks the lengths of president of the US' speeches and its archives reveal Trump beat a fair few of his predecessors and by quite a significant amount of time too.

While former presidents such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan reached only to around the mid-forties, in 2000, former US President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address clocked in at 88 minutes and 49 seconds - yet, that still isn't as long as Trump went on for last night.

Trump even beat his own record from his 2019 address which came in at 82 minutes 25 seconds.

Awks. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

And despite Johnson's comment about Biden, Biden's top length of speech was only a mere 67 minutes 17 seconds in comparison to Trump's total last night - 99 minutes and 32 seconds.

One Twitter user who saw the clip of Johnson and Vance guessed: "I think Vance just said in his ear 'This is going to be the longest speech ever'."

Granted, the 47th President of the US wasn't actually speaking for a solid 99 minutes 32 seconds - dragging out the time by waiting to lap up applause and also being interrupted by a heckler.

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