Now you're wondering, will Trump fire Mueller now that he's got Whitaker in place? And here's my take on that. My take is that the president doesn't make decisions until it's time to make the decision. But he does walk right up to the line so that when it's the perfect time he can make the decision. So if you're asking yourself has the president already decided to fire Mueller or not, my best guess, and again we can't read his mind, right, but my best guess is that he has not made that decision. But he has quite intentionally walked right up to the line and put a toe over it so that it's in the air. It's possible.

Here's what's happening because of that. Number one, we're in a period where people are sure he's going to fire, or at least the opponents, his opponents are sure he's going to fire Mueller. And so they're protesting, etc. At the same time he's not firing Mueller. So all the protests are, hey you can't fire Mueller, you can't fire Mueller, while the reality is Mueller's still in his job. So there's a strange situation where the president has created a situation in which his opponents are punching themselves out. They're exhausting themselves on something that is completely imaginary right now. Which is not to say it couldn't happen. There's a very good chance it will happen. But at the moment they're flaming out, punching themselves silly on something that they are imagining might happen.

What will happen if he lets them do this for a while? Let's say they go to maximum protest, maximum excitement, maximum emotional whatever. They're gonna get used to it. Here's the great persuasion level that's a little bit invisible unless you study this stuff. As I say often, you can get used to anything. Humans get used to their situation very quickly. And so anything that's terrible and even anything that's amazing, if you're exposed to it too much and consistently, you just get sort of blind to it. Its emotional value just starts trending down.

So Trump has created this situation where he's not done anything wrong. He has not fired Mueller. At the same time his enemies are going nuts, using up all their energy against the thing that hasn't happened. Should he decide in the future to make it happen, all of their outrage will have been siphoned off. Oh yeah, they'll still make a big deal about it. I'm not saying they won't make a big deal about it. But the level of intensity is going to be totally lower because people just got used to it and bored by it. And are we still talking about Mueller? Mueller was so last week. We already protested Mueller. Don't tell me I have to protest Mueller again.

So the president is creating this brilliant situation of advantage without making the decision. And my guess is he has not made that decision. That he's just ready to make it should he need to.