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Trump's Wall (and the Key of Evil).

One thing we learnt from Donald Trump's announcement that he was declaring a National Emergency to fund his fear-mongering wall: his favourite note is Bb. Mexico border wall: Trump defends emergency powers move. He hits the note eight times in the video clip accompanying the article above on the BBC News website (from 44 seconds onwards), and then another five times in the speech that immediately follows it, which the BBC sadly edited out; his keenness to aim for that particular black note makes a firm case for Bb to become the official Key of Evil; that or the Key of Total Ignorance. Perhaps the thing that bugs me most about this puffy-faced giant satsuma of a man is the way he seems content to start every sentence with absolutely no idea where it's headed, preferring to just freestyle it and hope for the best. It's like he's unable to retain any information in that foolishly coiffed bonce of his, yet he doesn't see this as a setback; after all, the fewer stat...

"Wot, No Nose?"

What’s the point of drawing graffiti like this, if you don’t make his nose dangle over the wall? Not doing this was a missed opportunity. For some reason, the whitewashing finger-artist went for a proportioned hooter instead of a bulbous one. They opted for nasal naturalism over caricature, yet went all out with his hair and ears. It doesn’t hurt to be consistent. The scale of the whole combo concerns me. Either the man’s very big or the wall’s very small. The size of the bricks are in proportion to the face, but if they’re standard house bricks and the wall's only four high, it raises the question of where the rest of his body would be. He’d have to be (1) standing in a hole, or (2) a contortionist. (I could be overthinking it.) …and don’t get me started on the Kilroy / Chad debate.