This blog has been created in order to organise my invaluable thoughts into a cohesive, coherent order specifically to communicate with and entertain Alex.

I felt it was important to start this blog because I often have insightful, brilliant thoughts that I need to share with Alex, and given we don’t generally speak within 5 minutes of these inspired thoughts and ideas, they generally are forgotten when my attention is drawn to other important things (like my gaming room).

Also, Alex is very busy this year ensuring that the world leaders of tomorrow have a proper and thorough knowledge of the French language and therefore cannot always be kept up to date with current events. This blog seeks to remedy that by keeping Alex fully informed of all the important happenings in our busy world.

So, at the risk of jumping on a bandwagon that must be straining under the weight of a significant portion of the worlds population, I start todays blog talking about Donald Trump.

I must admit a brief admiration for Donny, given that he has pulled a “Trump” card (see what I did there) against Mexico by announcing that they will indeed be paying for the wall bordering the US and Mexico. (When I say brief, think of how long it takes for a hummingbird’s wings to beat once and you get the idea) He intends to do this by raising a 20% import tax on all Mexican imports into the US. This is very clever.

In effect, what he is doing is making Mexican businesses pay for the wall. This appears to be a genius move on the surface, given the wall will cost $8 to $12 billion dollars and Mexico currently exports $291 billion worth of goods to the US per annum. It doesn’t take a private school maths teacher to work out that 20% of that is $58 billion, which would pay for 5 Mexican walls in one year.

Unfortunately for the citizens of the US, charging businesses a tax generally means that those businesses increase their prices in order to cover the increase in the cost of doing business. That’s just market economics I’m afraid. Given Mexico exports mainly oil, cars, vehicle parts, trucks, telephones and computers to the US, Americans may find that the cost of these items will increase by 20% as well. They also export a heck of a lot of tequila, so if drinking tequila is your means of commiserating with yourself on the fact that you can’t afford to buy a new Mexican car or fix your old one with Mexican parts, or afford to drive it because of the rising cost of petrol, then you are in for a Mexican truckload of disappointment. What’s that? Oh, no more Mexican trucks, I’m afraid. You could phone or email a friend to commiserate with but the phones and computers are now unaffordable as well.

So, as usual, it appears that Donny didn’t think this through. He was elected on a platform of making America great again by improving the standard of living and has just succeeded in worsening America’s balance of trade by $58 billion per year. Ooops!

Oh, and by the way, a hummingbird’s wings beat 50 times per second, which coincidentally is how long it took for Donny to come up with his brilliant Mexican wall plan.