[Neurons] 2024 Neurons #40 THE DAY TRUMP GOT TRIGGERED

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2024 Neurons #40

September 11, 2024 

 

 

THE DAY TRUMP GOT TRIGGERED

 

As I watched the Trump-Harris debate (September 10), it was obvious that
Harris was well rehearsed in how to "get under Trump's skin" and irritate
him.  I began counting every comment that seemed to be oriented to do that.
But after 5 or so minutes, I gave up counting.  She was doing it almost
constantly.  And she was good at taunting and annoying him by saying things
that were intentionally provocative-often as a side-comment when saying
something else.  

 

What was also obvious was the fact that while Trump didn't let many of the
provocative statements and lies get to him; he did get triggered by many of
them.  Yes, he took the bait!  And in taking the bait, he ended up talking
about things that no one cares about except him and what no one trying to
decide who to vote for cares about-numbers at the rallies, who want the 2020
election, Harris' father, which former administrative persons left and
thought Trump unfit, which world leader is laughing at him, etc.  All
irrelevant!  But by taking the bait, Trump got distracted, and wasted his
time on irrelevancies.

 

I found it interestingly sad that Harris spent so much time baiting Trump
and almost no time defining any of her positions.  Perhaps that was her
intent.  She avoided answering quite a few direct questions: Are we better
off today than four years ago?  Why have you flipped on so many issues?
Would you abort a baby in the 7th month, the 8th month, the 9th month?  Do
you take any responsibility for the terrible way we pulled out of
Afghanistan? 

 

If her goal was to get under Trump's skin, then she certainly succeeded in
doing that.  He certainly seemed to be rattled by her insults, zaps,
insinuating implications, personal attacks, etc.  He was rattled so much
that he got angry.  And as he got angry, he become less coherent so that
whereas he is usually very sharp and can improvise a comeback in the
moment-he missed a great number of opportunities.  On the first question,
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" when Harris did not
answer it and talked all around it, he could have simply noted,

"Did you notice that she failed to answer that simple question?  I wonder
why?  Is it because the whole country was better off four years ago than
they are now."  

Then he could have quoted the facts about the cost of groceries, gas, rent,
housing, etc.  But being triggered, he missed that opportunity.

 




Nor was Harris the only one on the attack.  So where the two ABC moderators.
For Trump they asked follow up questions, they fact checked him 5 times to
correct him, but they fact checked Harris 0 times-zero even though she made
several glaring mistakes.  So as many have noted, the debate was really 3
against 1.

 

I felt sorry for Donald Trump as I watched the debate.  He could have done
so much better if he had not taken the bait, if he had not let her get under
his skin.  So what is my points in all of this?  To make the point, let's do
some imagining. Imagine that Trump had attended a Neuro-Semantic Training or
Hired a Meta-Coach and learned the Un-Insultability Pattern! Imagine that!
If he had learned, as so many have learned, how to reverse his "taking
insult" strategy-a strategy that everyone seems to learn and learn really
well as they grow up(!)-then he could have maintained presence of mind while
staying calm and cool.  Then he would have had all of his knowledge and
communication resources fully available to him.  

 

Since first developing and teaching the Un-Insultability pattern in 1995, I
have taught it to Police Departments, to busy open-room news departments,
and to the medical responders on the front lines.  I have taught it at Sales
Training meetings.  But mostly I have trained it in NLP practitioner courses
and our Trainers' Training course.  What's amazing is that it is imminently
learnable.  If a person wants to be able to not be so easily triggered, even
if he thinks of himself as "a sensitive person," he can learn this as a way
of being in any context of pressure.

 

Every year at Trainers' Training, we have one of the more skillful trainers
present the Un-Insultability Pattern.  This past May, Wahyudi Akbar or Yudi
made the presentation which was live streamed as he presented it.  It was a
fabulous presentation and it is what enables those who experience it to
stand up and keep presence of mind without getting triggered!  Mr.
President, if you'd like to experience, just call on us.

 

[You can find Un-Insultability in the book, Meta-States (1995/2012) as well
as in Dragon Slaying, The Sourcebook of Magic, etc.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

 

 



 

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