pantomime

He is likely to be the pantomime villain at the Aviva.

It has a pantomime theatricality to it, featuring shots of the audience and including moments when the actors corpse - a term used to describe breaking character and laughing - and ad-lib on stage.

King, former chairman and still the club's major shareholder, has been the main character in a footballing pantomime this past week - not for the first time.

The past year of deliberations around Casement Park have been a pantomime, GAA president Jarlath Burns has said.

All he had to do was pantomime along to a jape about Trump’s obsession with audience counts, positioning his palms in a way that everyone knew he wasn’t referring to inadequacies over rally size comparisons.