Remarkable. He’s compared a puddle to three skyscrapers and somehow made it sound like a moon landing. The Lincoln Reflecting Pool is 2,000 feet long because it’s horizontal, Donald. So is the floor you’re standing on, but we’re not putting that on a chart.

And Fox just sat there and took it seriously. These are grown adults with broadcast licences and, presumably, a basic grasp of geometry. Any European journalist who tried to present this without bursting into tears of embarrassment would be out of a job by Friday. In Britain, a politician who pulled this stunt would be filleted live on Newsnight and served cold by morning. In America, Fox gives it a graphic and a theme tune.

In 250 years, the United States has produced Lincoln, the moon landings, and the Marshall Plan. And now this. A man with a chart comparing a pond to the Freedom Tower, surrounded by people nodding like dashboard dogs. For god’s sake.