It's constitutionally mandated and Bill Maher is a f'ing moron.
No one wants to listen to Shitler give speech but even fewer want to let him and his thugs rewrite the parts of the constitution they don't like.
#10 | Posted by qcp

While a state of the union update to Congress is required from "time to time", it's not required to be annual or delivered in person. Thomas Jefferson, discontinued the practice of giving an in-person address because he felt such style of address was best left behind to the monarchies in Europe. In a 1796 letter to a friend in Paris, he shared his thoughts on the Federalist Party of Adams which he called an "Anglican, monarchical, and aristocratical party". He said the speech was an attempt to distract from the content. He called the it a "pompous cavalcade to the state house on the meeting of Congress, the formal speech from the throne."