All right, Alexander, let's discuss the State of the Union address yesterday evening from

U.S. President Joe Biden.

What are your thoughts, Alexander, on Biden's very angry, it seemed?

Very angry state of the Union or campaign speech or, I don't know.

I didn't really get much out of it. But what are your thoughts on Biden's state of the union?

Well, my immediate takeaway watching and listening to it and seeing all that was going on around it

is that the state of the union is bad because the way the president behaves, the way he

conducted this speech, I mean, it was more than astonishing for me personally. It was absolutely horrifying.

And it started in this incredibly angry, aggressive way, trying to link up the Republicans with Putin and taking this very aggressive stance, criticizing his predecessor, as he did repeatedly throughout the speech,

flagging, effectively, implicitly criticizing the Supreme Court.

Now, the State of the Union address is a ceremonial event.

It's required, by the way, by the Constitution of the United States.

It's supposed to be an event where the country comes together. Obviously, it does have a political

aspect, a campaigning aspect, if you like. That's not inappropriate. But it's never the

case, or at least it's never been the case that I know of, that the president actually uses

the state of the union address to abuse. And that's the only one I can come up with, abuse in these angry, aggressive way,

his political opponents within the United States. Now, he mentioned right at the start of the speech,

two presidents, one was Franklin Roosevelt, the other was Abraham Lincoln. Now, as it happens,

I have read in my past, previous, you know, when I was studying American history,

I had read every single speech that each of those two presidents delivered as president.

And I've also, by the way, read and listened to some of Roosevelt's, you know,

interviews and things that he did. There's a few of them. I haven't heard all of his radio addresses.

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