Anthony Scaramucci has the well-oiled look of a fellow who would stuff banana skins into the transmission of an elderly car and sell it to you for a premium because the gear change felt so smooth.

You'd expect nothing less of a senior recruit to Donald Trump's White House, but Scaramucci is surely an over-achiever.

All those not-terribly-ancient tweets of his, now deleted, urging sensible folk not to fall for walls because they don't work, praising a governor for staying out of the "Trump spectacle", supporting Hillary Clinton (though that was way back in 2012), calling for gun control, describing himself as "for gay marriage, against the death penalty, and pro-choice", not to mention praising Islam as a religion of peace. Oh, and dumping on the existence of climate-change deniers as "disheartening".

His appointment as Trump's communications director would, if such a thing were to occur in Australian politics, be as sensational and about as authentic as if Malcolm Turnbull suddenly put Peta Credlin in charge of sharpening his public message.