As the president returned from his first foreign trip, journalists back home have focused on two of Mr Kushner’s meetings with Russians.

First it was The Washington Post describing how he had discussed setting up a secret communication channel to the Kremlin with Russia’s ambassador to Washington.

Then it was The New York Times reporting that investigators were looking into a December meeting with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who has a billion dollar interest in the US lifting its economic sanctions against Moscow.

None of it looks good for an administration already under scrutiny for its alleged ties to Russia. And it inevitably has led to speculation that Mr Kushner’s days are numbered.

Stories of his transition diplomacy, whatever its aims, has brought Mr Trump back to earth with a bump when he might have been expecting to bask in the afterglow of a nine-day trip dishing out some much needed home truths to Arab, Nato and European leaders (do more to fight terrorism, pay more, get out of my way I’m having my photo taken, respectively).