"I will be so adequate your head will spin"

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump stood in front of a joint session of Congress, read a speech off a teleprompter with little trouble, and walked back out of the room without tripping over his own exceptionally long necktie. He cleared the bar only because it is set so low for him that one would need a team of archaeologists to dig it up.

And recalibrating expectations down to practically zero has apparently worked a treat - the reporter on the BBC Radio 4 news this morning described The Donald's latest inane witterings as "measured." "Presidential" can't be far behind.