Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
These are scary days for big-named American businesses – if they stock Trump products, they can incur the wrath of a consumer boycott that is turbocharged by the power of social media; but if they drop the presidential brands, they incur the wrath of the Tweeter-in-Chief.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday said her conversation with Tillerson could not have been warmer.
Justice Department lawyer August Flentje insisted the executive order was within the US President's power.
Just as Donald Trump has declared he'll hold accountable the media that attempts to hold him accountable, it follows that respect for the presidency requires respectable conduct by the president.
In his encounter with the Hollywood Reporter, Bannon embraced the description of himself as a nationalist – but baulked at "white nationalist".
The history of presidents tangling with the court shows that they'll do it but only up to a point.
But much to their amazement, Donald Trump and the Bannon bunch keep running into this brick wall – it's called American democracy.
At least Turnbull was spared the muscle-flexing invasion threat that the new commander-in-chief was dishing out to the likes of Mexico and Iraq.
An inveterate gum-chewer, Sean Spicer's rules of life include: "Follow your mom's advice: It's not what you say, but how you say it. The tone and tenor of your words count."
And so, with the advent of Donald Trump's America First presidency, an Australian diplomatic tradition dies.
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