He might be 3,000 miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, but Donald Trump cast a giant dollar-shaped shadow over the House of Commons today. You see, the US President’s big tariffs announcement has got everyone a little worked up.

And it showed during a tempestuous Prime Minister’s Questions where verbal brawls were breaking out all over the shop. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle had barely finished speaking about his recent - first class no doubt - trip to Ukraine when there was an almighty bust-up over the pensions Triple Lock. Boasting that it was “safe” under Labour (he can do humour after all), Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the Tories don’t think it is a good idea anymore.

Rapier-like, Kemi Badenoch hit back, reminding him the Triple Lock was a Conservative policy.

The Lib Dems, not wishing to miss out on all the fun, seemed to get quite vexed about this, rolling back on the green benches and pointing at their chests.

It was like some kind of mating ritual seen on wildlife shows, although I think they were expressing their support for the pensioner benefit.

The Tory leader then tried to force home her point that Sir Starmer’s policies are ruining businesses, particularly the motor industry, up and down the country.

Things will only get worse when Mr Trump’s tariffs kick-in.

As the rhetoric ramped up, so did the volume as backbenchers from all sides got louder and louder.

And they reached fever pitch when the Prime Minister pinned the blame for Labour’s economic catastrophe on…..you guessed it, the Opposition.

If you’re a Tory there are no four words in the English language that make the blood boil quite like “£22 billion black hole”.

Conservative benches were a mass of snarling, finger jabbing, incredulity as the son of a toolmaker dribbled out the well-worn excuse.

Next up was a row over Labour run Birmingham City Council’s bin strike crisis.

As the debate turned to immigration Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, became more and more agitated.

Again, Sir Keir attempted to trash the Tory record, taunting that they had run an “open borders” experiment when in government.

Laughably, he claimed Labour is doing a good job on tackling illegal migration, despite record numbers of channel crossings.

This was too much for Philp, locking the Prime Minister with a thousand yard stare, jabbing his finger and bellowing “gone up, gone up, gone up, worst ever, worst ever, worst ever”.

It was all very reminiscent of Kevin Keegan’s infamous “I’d love it if we beat them, love it” rant at Sir Alex Ferguson.

Back in Washington, Trump was getting red to press his big red button.