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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nAmazon <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ingersoll Lockwood is a late 1800s-era author who wrote a series of eerily prescient books that appear, in some people\u2019s minds anyway, to have foretold the rise of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n It is pretty odd; three of Lockwood\u2019s books, written before 1900, feature a character named Baron Trump, and the third is about the \u201clast president.\u201d<\/p>\n One of Lockwood\u2019s books features an aristocratic boy protagonist by the name of Baron Trump who some feel bears a resemblance to presidential son, Barron Trump. Even weirder, Lockwood\u2019s Baron Trump journeys to Russia and is guided by a character named Don. The tome is called Baron Trump\u2019s Marvelous Underground Journey<\/em>, and you can find it<\/a> for sale on Amazon. Another Lockwood book<\/a>, Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger<\/em>, is out of stock on Amazon. It was published in 1890.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/znisroch\/status\/891070178016071682<\/a><\/p>\n Lockwood also wrote a book called, 1990: Or, The Last President<\/em>, which features a controversial political candidate in, you guessed it, New York. Two of the books can be read in full<\/a> on Archive.org.<\/p>\n All of this has sparked bizarre conspiracy theories <\/a>on the Internet alleging that the Trump family has the secrets of time travel, with theorists using Trump\u2019s uncle, John, and his real-life connection to Nikola Tesla to add heft to the loony charge and casting Lockwood as a newly found literary Nostradamus. However, Snopes notes that the names Baron and Don are the characters\u2019 titles in Lockwood\u2019s books, not their given first names.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of Ingersoll Lockwood\u2019s prescient books.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n The Amazon blurb for Baron Trump\u2019s Marvelous Underground Journey <\/em>is pretty jarring by modern standards. \u201cAn opening in Arctic Russia conveys Trump into the interior world. He passes through the strange countries of the Transparent Folk and the Rattlebrains among others. Written tongue in cheek, adults will find it amusing, as well as children,\u201d it reads. The book was written in 1893.<\/p>\n Ingersoll Lockwood\u2019s book as it looks on sale today.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n The opening of the book calls its protagonist \u201cWilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, commonly called Little Baron Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n The book reads:<\/p>\n The \u2018Little Baron,\u2019 so called from his diminutive stature, was born some time in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was the last of his race in the direct line, although cousins of his are today well-known Pomeranian gentry. He began his travels at an incredibly early age, and filled his castle with such strange objects picked up here and there in the far away corners of the world, that the simple-minded peasantry came to look upon him as half bigwig and half magician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The word Don appears in the book at least 59 times through the character Don Fum, who guides Baron. The protagonist says he \u201chad been reading of the world within a world in a musty old ms. Written by the learned Don Fum.\u201d Newsweek notes<\/a>, \u201cTrump\u2019s adventures begin in Russia, and are guided thanks to directions provided by \u2018the master of all masters,\u2019 a man named \u2018Don’\u201d and adds, \u201cBefore leaving for his voyage through the unknown, Trump is told of his family\u2019s motto: \u2018The pathway to glory is strewn with pitfalls and dangers.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\n1. One of the Books Sees the Protagonist, Baron Trump, Journeying to \u2018Arctic Russia\u2019<\/h2>\n
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\n2. Lockwood Also Wrote a Book About a \u2018Last President\u2019<\/h2>\n