Hmmm.... I'm old enough to remember this:

“If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats, looking through the stuff, then deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking — I’d be fine with that,” Obama said.

• https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-obama-talks-using-stand-front-man-third-term/