His speech is right out of the 1997 Soviet Constitution.
He is turning into Bill Clinton before my very eyes!Is he biting his bottom lip?
Sorry. 1977. He’s making me so mad I can’t see straight
The teleprompters are on the high side, evidently, and it makes his talk seem even more contrived, as he has to look up, rather than address the audience who is below him. But then — again — it does help him to keep that chin up where he likes it.
I can’t believe how some in that audience are swallowing it. Such BS he is gushing out!
The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1989.