Ingersoll Lockwood, an author and lawyer, published several works between 1890 and 1896, including two children’s books and a dystopian novel.
“The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger” (1898) and “Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey” (1893) feature a young protagonist named Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, known as Little Baron Trump. Little Baron embarks on fantastical adventures across dimensions with dog Bulger and guided by Don Fum.
The tales bear striking parallels to our modern world, particularly in the context of the Trump family.
Little Baron Trump hails from a wealthy New York family residing in Trump Castle on 5th Avenue. It mirrors the Trump history, with Donald Trump and his son Barron once living in Trump Tower on 5th Avenue.
Lockwood’s final work, “1900: Or The Last President,” opens with violent protests in New York City after a polarizing outsider wins the 1896 presidency. The depiction of social unrest and the mention of the Fifth Avenue Hotel resonate with contemporary events surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency.
“That was a terrible night for the great City of New York—the night of Tuesday, November 3rd, 1896,” the book opens. “The city staggered under the blow like a huge ocean liner which plunges, full speed, with terrific crash into a mighty iceberg, and recoils shattered and trembling like an aspen.”
For reference, the presidential election in 1896 was between Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican nominee, who defeated former Representative William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee, following the Panic of 1893, and the political realignment that began the Fourth Party System in which political reform across the United States focused on defeating corruption, monopoly, waste, and inefficiency.
Other Ingersoll books included Transparent Folk and the Rattlebrains, The Extraordinary Experiences of Little Captain Dopplekop on the Shores of Bubblehead (1892), and Wonderful Deeds and Doings of Little Giant Boab and His Talking Raven Tabib (1891.)
John Trump, Donald Trump’s uncle, also played a role in this narrative. An engineer at MIT during Nikola Tesla’s era, and was enlisted by the federal government to decipher Tesla’s notes after his passing.
Tesla is well-known today for his interest in time travel.
In 1895, while working on the time-space problem, he was nearly electrocuted to death by a machine involved in the experiment and reportedly succeeded, telling an assistant: “I could see the past, present, and future all at the same time.”
In 1943, the FBI called on Trump when Tesla died to review his papers. After three days, he told authorities nothing dangerous was in the files of the dead man.
In March 2006, Barron Trump, the youngest child of President Donald J. Trump, was born.
Draw your own conclusions.
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