The conspiracy theory that Barron Trump is a time traveler is all thanks to a series of books by Ingersoll Lockwood from the 1890s. These children’s novels, including “The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar” and “Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey,” were relatively unknown until conspiracy theorists dug them up in the Trump era, largely because of the characters’ eerie similarities to Barron and his dad.
In these stories, the protagonist, Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp — who goes by Baron Trump — has a mentor named Don Constantino Bartolomeo Strepholofidgeguaneriusfum, conveniently nicknamed “Don.” This “Master of all Masters” sends little Baron to Russia in search of a time travel portal. Things get even juicier with Lockwood’s other book “The Last President,” about a man living on Fifth Avenue (Trump Tower, anyone?) who unexpectedly becomes president, causing nationwide riots (sound familiar?). Conspiracy theorists didn’t stop there — they linked this to another theory that Trump inherited Nikola Tesla’s secret time travel research. Supposedly, after Tesla’s death, Donald’s uncle, physicist John G. Trump, was tasked with inspecting his work and secretly acquired his time travel research, allowing the Trump family to hop through time.
These theories are as wild as they come, and they’re obviously the work of people who have too much time on their hands. If Barron and the rest of the Trumps were truly capable of time travel, you’d think they would have dodged all their controversies by now. But maybe they’ve done it in another timeline or universe? Who knows!
