by Luca Wolfe Murray
“When I was 16, I would do magic tricks on the streets of the British town of Bath for charity. The most important thing I learned in magic might be termed the “art of distraction” – making the audience look in the wrong direction. The reason is simple: Truly deceiving someone is much harder than just distracting them. Even if your sleight-of-hand is poor, as long as the spectators are looking at the wrong hand — you’ve tricked them.”Luca Wolfe Murray, a 22-year-old traveler and aspiring entrepreneur and mentee in the Ratiu Forum Journalism Mentorship Programme, writes about how Donald Trump uses distraction to quietly undo key executive orders while the public and media focus on more visible controversies.
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