Not to put too fine a point on it, but Donald Trump’s talk of building a monstrous 2,000-mile long wall between the US and Mexico has to be one of the stupidest ideas ever floated by a politician, and he makes it even stupider by insisting he’s going to make Mexico pay for the whole thing, apparently by the sheer force of his winning personality.

Well, today the Mexican government finally made an official statement about the Trumpenstein’s asinine right wing talking point, and it’s exactly what you might expect.

“I say it emphatically and categorically: Mexico, under no circumstance is going to pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing,” Mexican Treasury Secretary Luis Videgaray said late Wednesday to Milenio television.

The wall proposal by the Republican presidential hopeful has been criticized widely and fiercely in Mexico, but the government itself has tried to avoid commenting directly on the issue until now.

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“Building a wall between Mexico and the United States is a very bad idea, it is an idea based in ignorance and that is not supported by the reality of North American integration,” Videgaray said. He said there was no way that Mexican taxpayers could pay for that sort of project.