Misdirection & Distraction

Twitter, for trump, is his tool for misdirection and distraction.  This became obvious to me when he went on a twitter tirade regarding pence's night at the Broadway production of Hamilton.  The very day that pence went to see Hamilton, is the day that trump settled the trump university law suites.  he obviously wanted to perform some theater of his own to move attention away from this settlement.

I searched the net for the words distraction and misdirection and found the following two wikki posts:

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)


Distraction is the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from the desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information. Distraction is caused by: the lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of attention; or the great intensity, novelty or attractiveness of something other than the object of attention. Distractions come from both external sources, and internal sources. External distractions include factors such as visual triggers, social interactions, music, text messages, and phone calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction

trump is not a magician as far as I'm concerned.  he is not even a grade C entertainer.  I am not fooled by his attempts at distraction and misdirection.  I am watching both hands (and the third one that comes out of his derriere).  The tweets have value in that they display his warped thinking, but when he tweets I am on the alert to watch for & think about other  things he is doing that he may or may not be tweeting about.  For example, even when he tweets about his Cabinet appointments, he is attempting to have the reader not look deeper into the character of the appointee.  he is just throwing something out there for the sheep to feed on.

I urge you, the reader, to always be watching everything that trump is doing and not be taken in, distracted, misdirected or whatever you want to call this tactic.  he is not worthy of our inattention.  he is dangerous.  We must watch and speak out.  Email our representatives.  Call our representatives.  March in protests.  Discuss what trump is doing with friends and colleagues. Urge your friends, family and colleagues to do the same.  Lastly, PLEASE share this blog and my blog address, www.politicalbill1218.blogspot.com, with all of your 'friends' and contacts on the various social media sites that you take part in.  Thank you!