<Li> In the TV show The West Wing, the episode "He Shall, from Time to Time ..." features President Josiah Bartlet talking to Secretary of Agriculture Roger Tribbey in the Oval Office prior to leaving for his State of the Union address . The choosing of the designated survivors is shown at the start of the episode, generating some discussion about how it works . </Li> <Li> The 2016 TV series Designated Survivor stars Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who becomes President after a terrorist attack during the State of the Union address kills the President, the Vice President, and every individual ahead of him in the line of succession . </Li>

Who is sitting out the state of the union