Yea, I was like 'Get to the point already!' about halfway through, hence my comment about whoever wrote it doesn't know how to write a good speech, or maybe it was hashed out in a hurry, but I suspect a good speechwriter would still make a better one if they were in a hurry. I think it would have been better if he wasn't following a script, or at least more entertaining.
As I also said, it sounded, if anything, like trying to build a case for doing a national emergency, which it could plausibly have been written down for in case he decided to do that, but he ended up not.
You know, I heard it differently. It followed, very closely the form that other speeches and addresses tend to follow. Go listen to almost any state of the union address from the last couple of decades. This could be a slice out of one of those easily, in form, if not in content.
If you're going to knock the speechwriter on this one, you have to knock political speech writing in general. This was a rare example of Trump actually sounding like a politician and actually following a more or less normal script.
That said, this isn't what people expect from Trump, it's uncomfortable, unusual, and aside from that, just plain boring when compared to his usual antics.
Waste of everyone's time, but at least the whole boring spectacle was only about 20 minutes, even when you add in the Schumer-Pelosi Show afterwards.