New US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy had them at her first media conference interjection: when the white, stale male journalist (the self-outing Hugh Riminton) cut across a female journalist she asked incredulously to the whirring cameras with Kennedy-esque pause,:‘Did you just talk over a woman?’

The whole room of cynical journalists swooned and the twitterverse went into a collective cuddle as they celebrated the arrival of one of their pro-nouned own and America was almost forgiven for electing Trump.