The real danger behind Trump’s remarks on NATO

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO allies that don’t pay their bills. We’ll discuss why Trump’s willingness to ignore our treaty obligations hurts Americans’ freedom and standard of living. Plus, why robots aren’t coming for our jobs anytime soon. And, we’ll make you smart on why cats get stuck in trees!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Trump told S.C. rally that he supports Russian aggression against NATO allies” from NPR

- “Wealth disparities by race grew during the pandemic, despite income gains, report shows” from The Associated Press

- “Robot invasion hit a bump in 2023 as North American economy cooled” from Reuters

- “Yes, cats do get stuck in trees. This climber rescues them for free.” from The Washington Post

- Travis Kelce yelling at coach becomes Super Bowl meme from Scott Lincicome on X

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0:00.0	Shall we make?
0:01.0	There you go.
0:02.0	My goodness.
0:05.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:09.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:12.0	I'm Kyle Rizdahl. Thank you for being here on this
0:14.2	Monday. 12 February is the date and day. Yes, can you believe we're almost halfway
0:20.9	through this month already? It's wild. Totally. Yeah. Anyway, today we're almost halfway through this month already? It's wild.
0:23.0	Totally.
0:24.0	Anyway, today we're going to do some news stories.
0:26.9	We're going to do some make me smiles.
0:29.1	But let's start with the news.
0:30.1	So, Kai, what you got?
0:31.4	So, mine, what you got? So, mine is political, but mostly economic in a way
0:37.3	that probably a lot of people listening to this podcast
0:39.4	will understand, but I fear a lot of people in this country
0:41.6	don't.
0:42.4	So, Trump goes to South Carolina this weekend,
0:45.1	says all the standard stuff he usually says
0:49.7	at these rallies.
0:50.7	And then he says, tells a a story which you can tell is fake because he uses
0:56.8	the sir thing I was at a big conference and a leader of a big country he said to me
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