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Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is Washington Post columnist

Megan McCartle. And we discuss a lot of different issues on this episode from Donald Trump's first hundred days to the tariff war, to Doge, to Elon Musk, to the debt problem, but primarily and maybe most importantly, AI and what it pretends for all of us.

So without further ado, I think you're going to like this episode.

Here is Megan McArnell.

Megan McArdle. Thanks for having me.

I want to get into a subject which I think reviewing all your columns for the last year

might be the most important subject that you've been thinking about, AI, just based on the number

of columns that have been written about it. But first, I'm obligated to ask you about the first hundred days or so of the Trump administration.

So what is your initial thoughts?

Has the first hundred days surprised you in any way?

Has it gone as you expected?

I would say it's about what I expected.

It was, you know was shambolic.

They came in with a lot of big plans and executed on very few of them.

I will say that I think maybe I should take that back.

They were more aggressive on DEI stuff and more effective on it than I thought

they would be. But in general, and I think the tariffs were more outsized and catastrophic than I

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