Donald Trump time traveler?

[SimpleDon]

I use a couple of news amalgamates, websites that look at news feeds and news websites and list the articles found for a single subject. They are good for two uses, finding out about a narrowly focused topic like my favorite English soccer club, Arsenal, and presenting different views of a more widely discussed subject like Donald Trump.
This amalgamator in the UK found an interesting article on Trump.

How a Barron Trump time traveling conspiracy keeps going viral

... it’s about him being a time traveler, and several late 19th century books written about a man eerily similar to Donald Trump, including one about his young son, and another predicting him being “the last president.”

The theory comes from two books published at the end of the 19th century written by an obscure lawyer named Ingersoll Lockwood.

The first book has a young man with the title of “Baron Trump” taking a magical journey around Russia with an older father figure named Don. The second predicts a wealthy, Fifth Avenue-dwelling tycoon and political outsider whose populist “common man” rhetoric and massive reform of the monetary system inspires violent protests and eventually a full-on civil war that brings down the country.

... pro-Trump posters on Reddit and 4chan used the books as the crux of a conspiracy theory that Lockwood either had some kind of divine vision about Trump becoming president or that Trump somehow went back in time himself to write them, thanks to technology invented by Nikola Tesla.

... That would be the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who, in his later years, told of a series of magnificent projects he was working on, everything from limitless power transfer to death rays to, yes, time travel. Tesla’s papers were sucked up by the FBI after his death in 1943, where they were examined by a renowned physicist working for the government’s Office of Scientific Research and Development named John G. Trump – the brother of Donald Trump’s father Fred.

The article goes on to explain how they think a conspiracy theory such as this one got started. It is an interesting read.

Has anyone else heard of this conspiracy theory? Has there already been a thread on this?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

"Baron Trump" is hardly a shocking name for such a novel about class welfare, especially in the late 19th Century.

Barron Drumpf being the name of the novel would be a much more interesting piece of evidence in a conspiracy theory, of which I've never heard before because it is .

 

[Gun Nut]

interested in all the things the book got wrong... did they have jet packs? Internet?
They got a name and a place right, apparently, but is that buried in a pile of incorrect predictions?

 

[Opoponax]

So time travel causes brain damage?

 

[KeepTalking]

Seems legit. Of course it all points to major fuckups by Don the Con.

Apparently things will go very badly for Trump, and he will be the last President because he ends up totally destroying the United States in the foretold civil war. As the nukes begin to descend, he jumps into the time machine with Barron in an attempt to get back to the late 1900's to fix his own bad decisions. Once in the time machine, the ignorant man child yells out "Take us to the late 19th century!" and is of course delivered back in time to a century earlier than he was aiming for.

 

[laughing dog]

The only part of alleged time travel of Trump is that he returns to our time.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Constant time travel bombards the body with radiation -- the effects are first seen in males in a drastic, pronounced shrinking of the testes, followed by a shriveling of the penis. Later the hands become soft, small, moist, pinkish, and ladylike. In some subjects the brain functions become acutely compromised, with symptoms mimicking those of late stage syphilis. Patients may become easily agitated, prone to fits of paranoia and delusions of grandeur. A reversion to childhood moodiness and oppositional/defiant speech is common. Tourettes may manifest. The hair may begin to fall out. A pronounced neck wattle, associated with thyroid deficiency, may manifest. Patients may need seclusion and confinement in warm, soothing environs with diminished lighting. Agitated sexual acting-out may accompany the genital atrophy, but this is generally manifested in frenzied masturbation, which may occupy the patients for an entire night. A therapy of anti-delusional drugs offers a minimal amount of remission from symptoms; however, the genital atrophy is irreversible (and fairly risible.)