How Trump & Wilders Convince You With These 5 Hypnotic NLP Tricks

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I previously reported in the much-read article ' Psychological tricks & hypnosis: how Donald Trump wins the elections ' on the psychological NLP tricks and hypnotic language patterns that Trump systematically uses to manipulate his audience. At the request of readers, I started analyzing Geert Wilders' speeches. The question I wanted to answer was: does Geert Wilders use the same hypnotic language patterns as Donald Trump? And what can you learn from both gentlemen as a marketer?


Trump & Wilders
Geert Wilders was recently seen at the Republican convention, where Trump officially became the Republican presidential candidate. Wilders had already made it clear in a tweet that he is an admirer of Trump : “I hope Donald Trump will be the next US President. Good for America, good for Europe. We need brave leaders.” The political parallels between Wilders and Trump are quickly made. The immense immigration from Muslim countries must be stopped. The political elite has made a mess of it. And the disastrous state of the country has fallen to a historic low.



When I compared Wilders' speeches with Trump's, I made a remarkable discovery. Just like Trump, Wilders does not operate according to the laws of common sense, logic and facts. He communicates by means of targeted language patterns. Straight from the world of hypnosis, NLP and manipulation. Aimed at hypnotizing algeria telegram number list and manipulating on a mass scale in order to install radical ideas easily and unnoticed in large groups of people. I will discuss 5 NLP tricks that Trump and Wilders systematically use.

1. Suggest cause and effect, but never explicitly
Both Trump and Wilders often lack rational evidence to support their positions. But that can be circumvented. For the subconscious, logical arguments have no value whatsoever. If you want to establish a causal relationship for the subconscious, all you need to do is mention two unrelated events in succession. Trump makes full use of this fact. For example, during a CNN interview in which Trump started talking about his then competitor (now affiliated with Trump) Ben Carson. It would be a big problem if Carson were to become president, Trump said.


Trump: "He's pathological. That's a big problem, because you don't cure that. (...) For example, child abuse. You don't cure these people. You can't cure a child abuser. There's no cure for this. Pathological, there's no cure for this."

Causal relationship
To the rational consciousness it seems as if Trump is merely indicating that Ben Carson has a pathological character. A fact that Carson himself has stated. However, something much more important is happening subconsciously. By stating the two statements “He has a pathological character.” and “Child abuse. You cannot cure these people.” in succession, it seems to the subconscious as if there is a causal connection or link between these two statements. Rationally, Trump can never be held accountable for this, since he has never explicitly made this causal connection.

Immigration and crime
Wilders also makes frequent use of the cause-effect principle. The following fragment comes from a speech in which Wilders introduces his candidates:

Wilders: “In the meantime, many people feel that we are losing the Netherlands. Neighborhood after neighborhood, street after street, school after school. Mass immigration has reached a sad record and will probably only explode further in the coming years. Crime is rampant and anyone who watches two minutes of Opsporing Verzocht knows that this crime is often the result of the policy of Sinterklaas-come-in-with-your-servant .”

Suggesting a causal relationship is an effective way for a marketer to link an existing problem of the target group to the solution of the seller. Not consciously, but unconsciously, one event is linked to the other by naming them one after the other.