The Baron Trump Books: 19th Century Prophecy or the Strangest Coincidence in American History?

All right, night owls. Pull up a chair and kill the lights. Tonight we're going somewhere I've been avoiding for years. Not because I don't find it interesting. Because I find it too interesting.

We're talking about a children's book from 1893. A boy named Baron Trump. A castle. A portal in Russia. And a family that wouldn't exist in the public eye for another century.

I'm not here to tell you what to believe. But I am here to lay out the evidence. And friends, there's a lot of it.

The Books Nobody Read

In the late 1800s, a lawyer and diplomat named Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a series of children's adventure novels. He'd served under Lincoln, traveled the world, and apparently had a vivid imagination. Or something else entirely.

The books were called "Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger" (1889) and "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey" (1893).

The protagonist? Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, better known as "Little Baron Trump."

He lives in a place called Castle Trump.

His mentor, a learned man called "Don," guides him to discover a secret portal in Russia that leads to other worlds and other times.

These books were forgotten for over a century. Nobody cared. Until 2017, when someone on 4chan made a connection that set the internet on fire.

The Coincidences

Let me just lay these out. You can decide what they mean.

The Name.

Donald Trump's youngest son is named Barron Trump. With two R's, but close enough to make you look twice. And here's the thing: in the 1980s, Donald Trump used a pseudonym when calling reporters. That name? John Barron.

The Address.

Baron Trump in the novels lives in "Castle Trump." Donald Trump lived for decades in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. That same Fifth Avenue appears in another Lockwood book, but we'll get to that.

The Russian Connection.

In the novels, Baron Trump discovers a magical portal in Russia that enables his time-traveling adventures. I'm not going to tell you what to do with that information. I'm just going to let it sit there.

The Mentor Named "Don."

Baron Trump's guide in the books is referred to as "Don", short for Don Constantino Bartolomeo Strepholofidgeguaneriusfum. Yeah, it's a title, not a name. But the coincidence remains.

"The Last President"

Now here's where it gets strange.

In 1896, Lockwood published a separate book: "1900: or, The Last President."

This one's not a children's story. It's political satire, or prophecy, depending on who you ask.

The plot? An outsider candidate wins the presidency, causing panic and chaos across the nation. The book specifically describes:

"The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob."

It describes "a state of uproar" after the election of an "enormously opposed outsider candidate."

And this passage, which I want you to read slowly:

"...a surging mass of humanity that held the Capitol girt round and round... the Republic of Washington was no more."

That book was written in 1896. One hundred and twenty-five years before January 6th, 2021.

Oh, and one more thing. The Last President features a character in a position of authority with a very specific surname: Pence.

The Tesla Papers

Now let's talk about the elephant in the room. The reason this conspiracy has legs beyond literary coincidence.

On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla died alone in a New York hotel room. The man who gave us alternating current, radio, and ideas so far ahead of his time that we're still catching up.

Two days later, the FBI made a phone call. They needed someone to examine Tesla's belongings, his notes, his papers, his alleged designs for a "death ray" and other weapons. The government was worried about what might fall into enemy hands.

The man they called? Professor John G. Trump of MIT.

John G. Trump was Donald Trump's uncle.

After reviewing the papers, John Trump declared they contained "nothing of practical value", just "speculative, philosophical" musings from an aging genius.

Case closed. Nothing to see here.

Except... why call a specific MIT professor to examine the most important scientific papers of the century? And why did the FBI keep those papers classified for decades afterward if there was nothing of value?

What We Know

- Ingersoll Lockwood wrote books in the 1890s featuring a character named "Baron Trump" who lives in "Castle Trump"

- Those books describe a portal in Russia and time-bending adventures

- A separate Lockwood book describes riots on Fifth Avenue after an outsider wins the presidency

- That same book features a character named "Pence" and describes a mob surrounding the Capitol

- Donald Trump's uncle examined Nikola Tesla's papers two days after his death

- Donald Trump's son is named Barron Trump

- Donald Trump used the pseudonym "John Barron" in the 1980s

What We Don't Know

- Whether Ingersoll Lockwood had any connection to the Trump family

- What was actually in Tesla's papers beyond the public reports

- Why these specific coincidences align so precisely

- Whether any of this is anything more than pattern recognition run wild

What's Alleged

- That Tesla's papers contained working theories on time manipulation

- That John Trump secretly preserved this knowledge and passed it to his nephew

- That the Trump family has used temporal technology to position themselves throughout history

- That the Lockwood books are either prophecy, communication from a time traveler, or evidence of a closed timeloop

The Skeptical Take

I'm going to be honest with you. The skeptic in me knows how this works.

Humans are pattern-recognition machines. We see faces in clouds and prophecies in old books. "Baron" is a noble title, not a first name, the character's actual name is Wilhelm. "Don" is Spanish for "Mr." Fifth Avenue was already famous in the 1890s. And the "Pence" character? He's the Secretary of Agriculture, not a vice president.

Cherry-picking is easy when you're looking for connections.

But here's the thing that keeps me up at night: how many coincidences does it take before coincidence stops being the answer?

The Question I Can't Shake

Let's say none of this is real. Let's say it's all pattern recognition, confirmation bias, and the internet doing what the internet does.

Then why does it feel like something?

Why does a forgotten children's book from 1893 describe, with unsettling precision, events that wouldn't happen for another 130 years? Why was Donald Trump's uncle, of all the scientists in America, the one called to examine Tesla's papers? Why did Trump use the name "Barron" as a pseudonym decades before his son was born?

I don't have answers. But I've got questions. And at 3 AM, questions are all we have.

I Want to Hear From You

If you've gone down this rabbit hole, drop what you've got. Have you read the original Lockwood books? Found other connections I missed? Got a theory that ties this together, or blows it apart?

The lines are open. I'm not here to judge. I'm here to listen.

Stay curious. Stay skeptical. And keep one eye on the clock, because apparently, time isn't as linear as we thought.

- Jack