Let’s get it right, Cole Palmer did not get to meet Donald Trump. It was the other way around. The US President got to meet Chelsea’s superstar on a night when he was at the peak of his powers at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Behind Trump as he stayed put on the podium for the trophy lift was a confused Palmer appearing to ask his team-mates: ‘What's he doing?’ It was strange scene, to say the least, an absurdity the like of which we have not seen at a football fixture before.