U.S. trade tensions with the EU just got tenser
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump’s tariff fight with the European Union just got a little more heated after the EU accused U.S. tech giants Google and Apple of breaching antitrust rules. Could this escalate the EU-U.S. trade war? We’ll also talk about the erasure of Black history and why Elon Musk is about to be back in the money. Finally, Nova makes us smile with some of the funniest and nerdiest bumper stickers seen around the streets of Los Angeles.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge” by NBC News
- @danlamothe.bsky.social on Bluesky
- “Elon Musk’s X Raises Almost $1 Billion in New Equity Funding” by Bloomberg
- “EU accuses Google and Apple of breaking its rules, risking Trump clash” from The Guardian
- “The funniest, weirdest and most niche bumper stickers seen around L.A.” by The Los Angeles Times
- Watch: “Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's do it. I mean, I'm ready. |
| 0:04.0 | The sky side. There we go. Hey, everybody. I'm Kai Rizal. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today makes sense. Wednesday, 19 March today. Kimberley's out. Novosavo is back. Hello. Hello. It's good to be back. Today we're going to discuss some news and then some smiles. |
| 0:23.0 | So shall we start with the news, Kai? |
| 0:24.7 | Let us begin with the news. |
| 0:26.4 | And to the great relief of the producers who are in charge of this podcast, I'm not going to swear this time. |
| 0:33.2 | I will, however, simply point out that once again, the federal government in the United States of America has decided that black people don't belong in American history. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm talking about Jackie Robinson. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm talking about Colin Powell. |
| 0:48.0 | The Navajo Code Talkers, the government of the United States has decided they don't belong in our history anymore. |
| 0:53.6 | And they have taken |
| 0:54.4 | all of those things down from Department of Defense websites. Now, as I said, I'm not going to |
| 0:59.3 | swear, but what I am going to do is read you a quote from the press secretary at the |
| 1:05.5 | Pentagon. His name is John Uliott. When asked about why these little snippets of American history, Colin Powell, J.K. Robinson, again, landmark figures in this country, why their images and websites have been taken down. And in some cases, the URL replaced with DEI Medal of Honor, as I said the other day. |
| 1:29.4 | Here's what the Pentagon says. |
| 1:31.3 | DEI discriminatory equity ideology does the opposite of what it intends to do. |
| 1:37.6 | It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the core warfighting mission. |
| 1:42.1 | Do with that what you will, but this is the government |
| 1:44.6 | doing these things in our name. And I just want to put that out there to be on the record about it. |
| 1:50.8 | News-wise, Elon Musk is about to be in the money again. I saw today in the Wall Street Journal |
| 1:57.0 | that what used to be called Twitter, which Elon Musk bought for $44 billion, |
| 2:05.4 | has raised another round of equity valuing the company at $32 billion. |
| 2:12.7 | So strife and discontent and abuse and Nazism and all of those things that you find on Twitter now are good for business. |
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