Beyond the “Signalgate” headlines

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In all the talk about senior White House officials discussing military attack plans over the messaging app Signal (and accidentally invited a journalist to the chat), one detail is being overlooked: the impact of the attacks on Yemen. We’ll get into it. And, we’ll unpack the chilling effect the Trump administration is having on U.S. tourism. Plus, nobody remembers that embarrassing time you misspoke in a Zoom meeting, right?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“Foreign Travelers Are Rethinking Travel to the U.S.” from The New York Times
“Beyond the Signal fiasco, Trump’s Yemen strategy needs more scrutiny” from The Washington Post
“Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal” (gift link) from The Atlantic
“Living Car-Free in Arizona, on Purpose and Happily” from The New York Times
“The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues’ Verbal Flubs” from The Wall Street Journal
“As Republicans Denounce NPR and PBS, Democrats Mock Hearing” from The New York Times

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1:02.0	Hey everybody. I'm Kai Rosdahl. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today makes sense.
1:06.2	Kimberly is out this week. Rema Kreis, the host of our podcast, This Is Uncomfortable, is On The Line. Hi, Rima.
1:11.8	Hello. Hi. It's good to be here. Good to be back. Thanks, everyone, for joining us on this
1:16.4	Wednesday, March 26. We're just going to do the usual thing, talking about news and then do some
1:21.8	smiles at the end. Do you want to go first? Kai, what caught your attention? I will go first. Mine's a quickie,
1:27.8	and it's not like it's anything that anybody hasn't really thought about, but the New York Times
1:31.5	did put a dollar amount to it today, and I'm just going to say it's a low ball figure. So,
1:36.2	as we know, foreigners, Canadians most specifically, but lots of others as well, are rethinking
1:42.8	their plans to travel to the United States.
1:45.1	And I'm just going to quote this from the New York Times.
1:47.1	Here we go.
1:47.9	The research firm Tourism Economics had originally forecast travel to the United States to grow by 9% this year.
1:53.4	But in February, it updated its outlook, expecting inbound travel to decline by 5.1% hotel demand to decline by 0.8% in 2025, the equivalent of an $18 billion drop in spending.
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