When Andrew Irvine took the job as NAB chief executive, he probably didn’t expect that he would spend the morning of his first full-year profit announcement answering questions about a certain orange-hued politician 16,000 kilometres away.

But after playing a straight bat to a string of questions about Donald Trump – “It’s good for the world when America is strong, that’s unambiguous” – Irvine sold a bit of hope about NAB’s numbers for the year ended September 30.