“We see him doing what he does best: making speeches, carrying out ceremonial duties...”
Holy crap...THAT’S when he’s at his best?
Because his speeches are horrible.
Yes they are awful. Or maybe they don’t even rise to awful, because they’re so vacuous and mediocre. He uses the most Babbitty phrases in a really tortured effort to sound lofty. You can’t sound lofty when you’re insincere.