President Obama’s remarks on Wednesday in Elkhart, Indiana, appear to have been drafted long before the current political season began in earnest. Obama claimed, for example, that the Republican party is “beholden to China,” the New York Times reported. That revelation comes as a surprise to those of us who may have noticed that one Donald J. Trump—the most anti-China presidential candidate of the modern era—recently wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination.

The president also said the Republicans are pawns of the “big banks.” This too sounded a bit of out date, given that in the upcoming Trump versus Clinton contest, the Democratic candidate is manifestly the choice of Wall Street. It’s as if the president’s speech were written months ago about any old generic Republican nominee. Given Trump’s victory, Obama should have sent it back and demanded a re-write.