Today on We Hunted the Mammoth we explore Donald Trump’s apparent use of hypnotic techniques in his speeches, looking at Trump’s recent comments about women and abortion, and uncovering four hypnotic tricks that may be influencing MAGA’s collective unconscious.
Embedded Commands: How Trump disguises orders as predictions
Confusion Technique: Using incoherence to bypass rational thinking
Repetition: The power of rhythmic, incantatory speech patterns
The Hypnotic Voice: Trump’s sometimes unusually smooth speaking style
We examine Trump’s recent speech in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and dissect his controversial statements about being a “protector” of women and his claim that “You will no longer be thinking about abortion.” Is this just political rhetoric – or is Trump working actual hypnotic suggestions into the mix?
Is Trump a “master persuader” as Dilbert guy Scott Adams would put it, literally trained by one of the founders of Neurolinguistic Programming” (NLP)? Did he pick up some tricks from renowned “conversational hypnotist” Milton Erickson? Or are these techniques simply the result of an intuitive understanding of crowd psychology?
BONUS POINTS go to the first person who can provide the timestamp of one of my cats adding her hypnotic voice to the video.
