Contributing opinion writerImagine the following magic trick: You are seated at a table. When you open your right fist, you quickly snap the fingers of your hand, and presto, the lighter has magically disappeared. He asks, “Why do people fail to see such obvious events?” According to Kuhn, magicians don’t use sleight of hand to deceive their audiences; rather, they use “misdirection . There are signs, however, that more members of the audience are on to Trump’s magic. In the example of the magician and the disappearing lighter, Kuhn performed the trick twice in front of a TEDx audience.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2018 22:07 UTC