The Internet, doing what it does, quickly distilled all that down to a concise and panicked takeaway:“Avocado anxiety over Trump’s border tax,” from the BBC. “Trump is going to build that damn wall and all people can talk about is avocados,” from Mashable. And, from Twitter Moments, “Trump’s proposed import tax sparks widespread guacamole panic.”GUAC AT CHIPOTLE IS ALREADY TWO DOLLARS BASICALLY NOW TRUMP IS GONNA TAX MEXICAN IMPORTS AND YOU SAID THIS GUY WAS A POPULIST? — Shelbie Bostedt (@ShelbieLBostedt) January 26, 2017This will seriously become the first locus of political outrage over Mexican trade: guacamole shortages at Chipotle. It’s not, of course, but Bump calculated how Americans could pay off the wall with purchases of other Mexican products.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 12:30 UTC