“This is me doing a full smile right now,” he says with a crooked smile and his right eye wider than his left.

He also appeared - along with half of Hollywood - in the Towering Inferno, as a crooked electrical engineer whose corner-cutting leads to the spectacular destruction of a 138 floor building.

The trademark wonky legs and crooked eyes have proved really popular with pet owners.

But Hackman’s Avery was the more intriguing character as the guy, his own fate already set, who is tasked with leading him on the crooked path.

So when Trump was asked if he planned to comply with court orders I assumed that he would rant and rave about crooked judges and rigged cases as he usually does.