As it turns out, he's not just the country's leader, but an a bit of a winker too.
The winker was also the evening's star, "Ms. J.J. Johnson" (real name: Janice H. Johnson) who at 60 rocked a sleeveless flame-orange blouse as she belted out Motown hits to the crowd of a few dozen as if the room was 20 times bigger and she were 20 years younger.
But that hasn't stopped Carlos Quieroz from fluttering his eyelashes at the Portuguese winker.
Firstly Cristiano Ronaldo, dubbed the "winker" by the tabloids having apparently issued a conspiratorial wink after his cajoling perhaps ensured Wayne Rooney's dismissal.
Our sports pages are encouraging us to believe that we can live with this terrible news, particularly as we understand that it was not the fault of those English players so recently presented as heroes, but of a sly Portuguese - "the winker" - and an under-performing, overpaid Swede.
Even cocky (also without the y) Aiden, the winker (also with an a) has insecurities, albeit modern ones, about how many Facebook friends and Twitter followers he has.
For some reason they seemed to think he was a bit of a winker.
If I can't indicate that my praise of a colleague's new shirt is sarcastic, not literal, without a gurning yellow winker, its presence stands more as indicative of my linguistic incompetence than his sartorial faux pas.
