The tension was visible in Mark Carney, Canada’s newly elected prime minister, as his left leg took on a life of its own during his first Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump.
It shuffled one way and then the other as the US president laid out just why making Canada the 51st state of America would be a “wonderful marriage.”
He tried and failed twice to interject, Mr Trump almost touching his knee in an apparent effort to hold him back, before he got his chance.