After years of having a frosty relationship, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are warming up to each other. We’ll discuss what a potential political marriage might mean for a second Trump administration. Plus, who actually donates to political campaigns? Later, we’ll smile about two giant pandas returning to D.C.’s National Zoo!
A Trump-Musk bromance
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Fewer Americans to Make Political Donations in 2024” from LendingTree
- “Fewer Americans plan to donate to political campaigns: Survey” from The Hill
- “Inside Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Growing Alliance” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Two New Giant Pandas Coming to Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute From China by End of the Year” from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
- “The Pandas Are Coming!” from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
- “Latest North Korean Offensive: Dumping Trash on South Korea From the Sky” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make |
| 0:10.6 | today make sense. I'm Kyle Rosal. Thanks for joining us today. It is |
| 0:13.4 | Wednesday, May the 29th. We will do what we do on Wednesdays, which is the same as we do. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's see, Mondays and Tuesdays. And that's it. |
| 0:21.8 | Well not on Tuesday. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh no you're right. |
| 0:24.0 | So we only really do this two days a week, right? |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, Monday and Wednesday because Thursdays we have audio clips. |
| 0:30.0 | Tuesdays we have the deep dive. |
| 0:32.0 | We do have a news item on today. |
| 0:34.0 | How long have you been doing this podcast, Guy. |
| 0:36.0 | Anyway, we're going to do some news and some smiles like we do two days a week. |
| 0:40.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:41.0 | Kimberly Adams, what do you got? |
| 0:43.2 | I was very fascinated by this new survey out from Lendingtree, which was reported in The Hill.com, |
| 0:50.6 | about Americans' plans about political donations this year. about |
| 0:53.0 | political donations this year |
| 0:55.0 | and fewer Americans plan to donate to political campaigns according to a survey than did in |
| 1:01.0 | 2020. So in early 2020 2020 more than one in three Americans 36% told |
| 1:06.6 | Lending Tree they plan to contribute to a political campaign that year. Fast |
| 1:10.6 | forward four years and far fewer Americans 26% intend to contribute. |
| 1:16.0 | More than half of Americans don't intend to while another 19% are not sure. |
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