I'll give you Brits this praise..

...Question Time rules.

Ken from Chicago...

But Britain's only about 59 million people. That's the population of
California, Illinois and Ohio combined. Hard to address the questions of
300,000,000 people.

Steven L....

Even if you were correct about that (and you're not), the easy and
obvious fix would be to address the questions of only a dozen U.S.
states, picked at random, in each Question Time session. That way each
Question Time session would only address the questions of maybe 1/4 of
Americans.

Frankly, I've suggested something uniquely American: an "American Town
Meeting" in which the White House sells raffle tickets to as many
ordinary American citizens as are willing to purchase them (proceeds to
go to charity). The winners of each raffle get to meet with the
President and ask them any questions they want, on a totally unrehearsed
basis.

Reality TV has shown how many ordinary folks crave the limelight. I'll
bet lots of American citizens would crave the opportunity to discuss, or
even debate, the President on live TV.

Even if the president was articulate, quick on his feet verbally and liked
giving speeches.

Even Clinton gave few press conferences, altho he does lots of speeches
since--but I think that's a global law for ex-political / sports / business
leaders.