they're going to figure out some kind of payment system. So authors are going to get paid.

And then what happens to the other AI companies who no doubt will also get sued if one of the big ones already settled and said, "All right, all right, we'll just change our business model and you'll get some money." But I would expect that the amount of money will be similar to the outrage that musicians have when they look at their Spotify income. I think somebody said if you have a song on Spotify and it plays a million times, you would get $4,000. It's pretty hard to get a million plays of anything. So I feel like as an author, I should be celebrating that the AI companies might have to send me money because I've got several books that may have been a tiny, tiny part of what they trained on. But there'll be so many authors I feel like we're all going to get five cents. So I'm not sure this is much of a victory, but who knows?

Here's what you can call the Trump effect. He's doing such a good job fighting crime, and the public likes it when he fights crime. It doesn't matter what he's doing. The public likes fighting crime by majority. So Eric Adams, mayor of New York, is going to surge a thousand extra police into the Bronx because there's been a surge of shootings there. And at the same time, Gavin Newsom just announced that he's also surging a whole bunch of new law enforcement people. So New York and California are basically copying Trump because they realize that they can't say, "No, we're actually in favor of crime," a sort of losing argument. To their credit, they figured out that being in favor of crime is politically bad. And so at least some of their smarter Democrats are saying, "We better try to get ahead of this. At least act like we're doing something so you don't need Trump to do something." So they're doing the best they can, but this is totally the Trump effect. I would give Trump the credit for Eric Adams and Gavin Newsom surging law enforcement because I don't believe they would have done it otherwise. I think they had to do it politically. It was just too much pressure because somebody was doing it and it was working and that was Trump.

The funniest thing that came out of Newsom's announcement about his new law enforcement push is it came, I think, a day after Trump had mocked him for his jazz hands. You know, his gesticulations when he's talking because they seem a little crazy, a little too much. And so I had predicted that Trump's such a good trash talker that he would get in Newsom's head, that Newsom would be thinking about his hands while he talked. It would make him less effective because his brain would have to do two things. Well, he's sitting at the table for the announcement about his law enforcement surge and he's locked his hands together, which looks to me like he did it intentionally so that his hands wouldn't be jumping around. But he didn't talk it over with his thumb because even though his hands were properly just in front of him, not moving, he had one rogue thumb that kept trying to do what his hands do. So he's talking and his thumb is just wiggling around. And there's no way that wasn't caused by Trump. There's nothing you could tell me that would convince me that all of that wasn't because he was trying to compensate for his jazz hands. It totally worked. Trump got in his head. And now every time we watch him, especially since that one rogue thumb situation, I'm going to be looking for his hand gestures. And I'll bet you that you will see him have to think about it every time he talks from now on. Just so good. And Trump's get-in-your-head game, it's just so good.

Trump is winning in so many ways. Now, there's a Chicago pastor, according to Fox News, who was blasting the Democrats for outright lying about crime, and he says he wants Trump to send the National Guard to Chicago. So some prominent Chicago pastor, Corey Brooks, and he basically says, "Yes, please, Trump, do more of that." Now, how many prominent black residents of Chicago have to come out in favor of Trump's push on crime? How many of them have to do it before it's impossible to say no? It won't take that many. It just takes a few brave people to say, "Hell yes, we need some help. Yeah, whatever you got. We'll take whatever you got to have less crime." So Corey Brooks, one of the smart ones, going first.

At the same time, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who's som