operating and he said, "Wow, Mayor Muriel Bowser of DC has become very popular because she worked with me and my great people in bringing crime down to virtually nothing, blah blah blah." He said her statements and actions were positive instead of others like Pritzker and Wes Moore and Newsom, he calls them, etc.

Now here's your persuasion lesson for the day. This is a lesson which I've given you before but every time you see an example of it it helps you internalize it. The persuasion lesson is this. You want to create the largest gap between making you happy and making you unhappy. That's what he's doing with the Muriel Bowser thing. Trump went immediately from a critic to my god the most popular mayor. You're great. And that's what everybody's observing. So the observers are saying to themselves, if I go against him like Pritzker, he's going to insult me physically, my look, my intelligence, my honesty. He might actually just destroy me the way he has so many other people such as Jeb Bush. So it looks like it's a really, really, really bad idea to go against Trump because he can primary you. He can insult you and he can give you a nickname that will never go away. He can really hurt you and that's even before he was president. He just had the persuasive ability. But if you take a chance of working with him to get something useful done, he's going to tell the whole world that you worked with him and you're a genius and you're the best mayor that's ever been there. So that's the largest difference between make you happy and make you unhappy and he broadcasts it. So by his actions everybody sees that this is very certainly the case. You can see that he does this intentionally. It's very powerful.

According to The Hill, Tara Suter is writing about did you know, I bet most of you didn't even know this, that thousands of people were protesting on Monday protesting against President Trump and billionaires. Are you aware of the anti-Trump anti-billionaire protests? According to Mayday Strong who organized it that there were a thousand protests around the country in more than 900 cities I guess some cities had more than one protest and the big push that's backed by the AFL-CIO is dubbed "Workers Over Billionaires." Okay. Did any of you even notice that there were a thousand protests on Monday? Anybody? There was a protest in my little East Bay, California town. Apparently there was quite a number of people who were dressed in Palestinian garb marching in even my town, which is surprising. But I didn't see it. So my take on it is that this is the most low energy generic artificial protest I've ever seen. May I summarize the total effect of a thousand protests around the country against Trump and billionaires. Okay, that's just generic, guys. Are you even trying? Is this the best you've got on the anti-Trump side? We'll do a thousand protests. Some of them will be five people. Low energy. I don't even know if it was in the news. Barely.

The Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who is one of the people who helped on DOGE by the way, tells about his transition from being a lifelong Democrat to a Trump backer. And he talks about how Trump's approach to the