Just when you’re assessment geopolitics can’t actually can’t get any more hostile to progressive values, Ivanka Trump weaponises the inconsistent earring. Is nothing sacred? What next, Steve Bannon in a Cos long-sleeved T-shirt and Adidas Gazelles? Kellyanne Conway attaining for a weekend at Mar-a-Lago with a Daunts Bookshop tote bag?

Ivanka’s mismatched earrings are sold as an off-the-peg non-pair from Marni for on all sides £500, although you can replicate the look on the high street for the evaluation of a sandwich, or for free by matchmaking waifs and strays from your gems box. Wearing mismatched earrings is this year’s catwalk-to-front-row breakout head. Celine, JW Anderson, Mary Katrantzou and Simone Rocha sire all abandoned symmetry in favour of odd danglers. Gwyneth Paltrow does it on the red carpet. I am utilization mismatched earrings today, as it happens. One is by Pamela Love, a safety-pin give form to with two pearls, the other a pink marble on a gold control that I bought from Monoprix for a few euros. Such is the pervasiveness of the style for odd earrings in my industry that if your front-row neighbour reveres your earring, she will then likely crane her neck about to see what you’re wearing “on the other side”. Oh, the shame of being non-functioned as a dullard in a matching pair.

As a political statement, Ivanka’s earrings go beyond sheer glamour. They go beyond dressing on-trend as a device to look in trade mark with the modern world. They go beyond, even, the skills of an eyecatching look to steer media focus away from Ivanka’s lead-balloon panel demeanour earlier in the day, although they did this with aplomb. Declaration earrings have always been a conversation piece, this being one of the thinks I love them and am currently obsessively stalking Dolce & Gabbana’s crystal-studded lobster earrings (£504), but Ivanka has infatuated this to a new level. Her earrings make Lynton Crosby’s “tiresome cat” manoeuvre look kittenish by comparison.

But profuse insidious than all this is that the Picasso-asymmetry of mismatched earrings call to minds an independent-minded, creative-thinking outlook, an identity Ivanka Trump intentionally flirts with. We should all be scared of Ivanka’s earrings, because they characterize as what makes her the most terrifying of all the Trump circle, which is her Bladerunner-replicant-like knack to make you believe – just for a second – that she is a bit like us. Commemorate when she wore a Hillary-esque white trousersuit to the inauguration, pointedly fuelling dangerous nonsense-talk that she is in some real quick-wittedness a secret feminist?

She has the cash to blind us with diamonds, but the stabs to seduce us with the kind of jewellery that a gallery curator clout buy to jazz up her Margaret Howell apron dress for a cocktail hop at Frieze instead. Her dad may not be able to string a basic sentence together, but Ivanka is a virtuouso of visual meaning. Be afraid.