How a 200-year-old book sparked conspiracies about a time-travelling Trump – Metro.co.uk
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A series of obscure Victorian novels have got the internet talking over their uncanny parallels to Donald Trump’s rise to power.
‘Little Baron Trump’, a wealthy, aristocratic young man who lives in Castle Trump, is the protagonist of a series of children’s books written by American lawyer and novelist Ingersoll Lockwood in the late 19th century.
The young boy, who shares a name with the president-elect’s youngest son, is said to have an unending imagination and ‘a very active brain’ which saw him become bored of the life of luxury he has become accustomed to.
To remedy his boredom, young Trump embarks on a journey to Russia for an adventure which changes his life.
But the similarities don’t end there. Along the way, Baron Trump is mentored by a mysterious figure known as the ‘master of masters’ who reveals a portal which allows him to travel to other worlds. The man’s full name is Don Constantino Bartolomeo Strepholofidgeguaneriusfum…but everyone just calls him ‘Don’.
Before leaving for his voyage through the unknown, Trump is told of his family’s motto: ‘The pathway to glory is strewn with pitfalls and dangers.’
Baron Trump starred in at least two novels- The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar and Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey – both are which have been archived by the US Library of Congress and can be read for free online.
But it is Lockwood’s final novel, a political thriller titled ‘The Last President’, which has raised the most eyebrows.
Although The Last President does not feature the Baron Trump character, it nevertheless features a number of eerie parallels to the former and now current president of the US.
The book begins in New York City, which is up in arms after a political outsider is unexpectedly elected president. The news causes a stir in the ‘upper portions’ of the city, who become ‘paralyzed with a nameless dread.’
‘Mobs of vast size are organising 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,’ an early passage of the book reads.
‘The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob,’ the novel continues, namechecking the same street in New York City where Trump Tower now stands. ‘Would the troops be in time to save it?’
Although long out of print and lost to time, the books were rediscovered back in 2017 and dissected, sparking a conspiracy theory that the Baron Trump featured in the novels is a time-traveller who hopped through a portal to the present day.
Adding more fuel to the fire is a theory that the Trump family has had access to time travel for many years, thanks to the president’s uncle, engineer John Trump.
John Trump reportedly had access to the papers of Nikola Tesla, who, according to the theory, was researching time travel ― and whose knowledge somehow enabled Trump to win the 2016 presidential election.
What the conspiracy doesn’t account for however, is the giant turtles, alternate dimensions, and strange interdimensional beings also found in the books, which either pours cold water on the time travel theory or raises a whole slew of additional questions.
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In the meantime, filmmaker and Trump supporter Leigh Scott has been trying to crowdsource funding to create a fantasy feature film about the books in order to ‘troll the entire media.’
‘Even though I work in Hollywood, I actually support President Trump,’ Scott said in a promo video for his project. ‘The book has tons of strange references to the modern day, but we can actually amp that up a bit and put in things that only we as Trump supporters and people who are on the internet all the time really understand and appreciate.’
‘I’m a huge fan of trolling, and making this movie is the greatest opportunity we have to troll the entire media,’ he adds. ‘To make something so bizarre, so professional and so unique that they cannot deny its existence.’
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