You Are Getting Sleepy… How Trump’s Hissing Hypnotism Worked

Mark Olmsted
5 min readOct 18, 2017

In order to best figure how out how to contain the toxicity of Trump until we finally manage to get rid of him, a good start would be to stop imagining that Trump perceives the world through any set of analytical filters with which most of us are familiar. No, we would be better off to imagine the perspective of a two-headed snake. One head is dedicated to self-defense, one to…

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.