Ingersoll Lockwood’s 1890 stories of “Baron Trump” have captured the attention of many, revealing a peculiar and fascinating narrative that seems to echo through time. The books, titled “The Last President,” tell the story of young Baron who has a mentor named “Don.” And “Don” has an associate named “Mr. Pence.”
A lot of action takes place after the election on 5th Avenue in New York City—precisely where Trump Tower is located. What makes this narrative even stranger is that the books are two children’s novels written in 1889 and 1893 by the American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood.
The Baron Trump novels recount the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by “Baron Trump,” as he discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump. The novels were part of a trend in U.S. children’s literature that responded to the demand for fantastic adventure stories triggered by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
In July 2017, the books were rediscovered by Internet forum users, and then the media, who pointed out similarities between the protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump. The novels have been discussed on both reddit and 4chan, with some incredible connections to be made to the first family of the United States and Lockwood’s novels from the turn of the 19th century.
The story begins with a scene from a panicked New York City in early November, describing a “state of uproar” after the election of an enormously opposed outsider candidate. “The entire East Side is in a state of uproar,” police officers shouted through the streets, warning city folk to stay indoors for the night. “Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years.”
“The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob,” the novel continues, citing an address in New York City where Trump Tower now stands. “Would the troops be in time to save it?” The connections between Lockwood’s novels and the present day are eerie and thought-provoking.
The internet has been sent into a frenzy after several prescient books written more than 100-years-ago have reemerged about the adventures of a boy named Baron Trump. Ingersoll Lockwood, an American political writer and novelist, wrote two children’s books titled ‘Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey,’ and ‘Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar,’ as well as an ominously titled political tome, ‘The Last President.’
The book titles and the connections to President Donald Trump and his son Barron are just the beginning of several spooky parallels. In the children’s books, the novels tell the tale of a wealthy aristocratic boy who lives in ‘Castle Trump’ and is guided on his journey to Russia by a man named ‘Don.’ The multitude of similarities to the Trump family living in present day America and the tales in the tomes have internet conspiracy theorists concluding the Trump family is capable of time travel.
