Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s never been backward in coming forward about her doe-eyed adoration for Donald Trump. She’s called him “incredibly patriotic and courageous”. At The Australian Financial Review’s business person of the year dinner last year, she and her entourage booed and hissed when Trump’s danger to the world order was highlighted from the stage.

It was her divine duty to be there on Trump’s big night. There she was pictured at his election night party with the former president’s fourth-child Tiffany Trump on Tuesday night US time.