There’s a time for talking off the cuff, and a time for a pre-written speech with a teleprompter. This was the latter.
As for Obama, he even uses it (or at least used to) in press conferences. Imagine how the media would have reacted if Dubya ever did that! They would have claimed Cheney was feeding him answers from an undisclosed location!
Understood. I would recommend just using normal notes and not a TelePrompTer. Doubtful anyone would object to the lack of a TelePrompTer but if they did, it would be a tremendous opening, opportunity for DT to succinctly explain why ! Ha! Ok though. Thanks