Do you remember when British officials were jubilant that Theresa May had won the race to be the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump at the White House?

“It shows the Special Relationship still means something,” is how one put it to me at the time.

After Barack Obama’s coolness to the UK, there was hope that a radical new direction in Washington would chime with Brexit Britain and strengthen the transatlantic alliance.

Heck Mr Trump even returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office.

What a long time ago that now seems.

That was when Republicans still talked about a pivot to presidential, when Mr Trump would leave behind his incendiary rhetoric in favour of a unifying voice.