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He Named Trump In 1893. That's Not the Strange Part.

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Overview

The video examines a set of late-1800s publications and argues—largely through coincidences in plot details and names—that they may be connected to “time travel” or some form of information moving backward through time.

Core claims and evidence presented

1) A forgotten children’s series “predicts” major historical themes

  • In 1889, New York lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood publishes Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump.
  • The series includes:
    • Baron Trump
    • Castle Trump
    • A guiding “master” named Don
  • Plot elements cited by the video include:
    • “portals” and hidden doorways into a world “inside our world”
    • a setting said to be located in northern Russia
    • the phrase “The people will tell thee.”
  • A sequel follows in 1893: Baron Trump’s marvelous underground journey, involving an old 500-year-old manuscript.

2) A later novel appears to mirror the 1896 U.S. election

  • Seven years after the Baron Trump books, Lockwood writes 1900 or The Last President (published 1896).
  • The video claims it describes the shock election of an outsider and includes specifics such as:
    • election night details
    • riots in New York
    • the idea that a named hotel would be “the first to feel the fury of the mob”
  • The video also corrects a common internet misconception:
    • the fictional president is not “Trump”
    • it’s said to be William Jennings Bryan, mirroring the real 1896 outsider candidate.

3) A “Titanic-like” disaster pattern repeats years earlier

  • The video compares Lockwood’s “iceberg” language to the Titanic catastrophe (suggesting uncanny overlap).
  • It then introduces Morgan Robertson, who wrote Futility (1898), including:
    • a large “unsinkable” luxury liner
    • an iceberg sinking
    • too few lifeboats
    • a ship named Titan (compared to the later Titanic)
  • The video further claims Robertson believed his stories were produced via an external “spirit entity” that commandeered his mind and body.

4) Earlier fiction reportedly matches later real shipwreck legal details

  • The video references Edgar Allan Poe (1838) and a novel involving shipwreck survivors drawing lots (leading to a death).
  • It claims that 46 years later, a real shipwreck produced a similar scenario that is still taught in law schools, including the death of a cabin boy named Richard Parker.

The “time travel” conclusion the video pushes

After presenting these parallels—especially matching disaster plots and the repetition of specific names—the video argues the strongest explanation is that time travel/information from the future is influencing writers.

It portrays the pattern as persistent across multiple authors and decades, with names and details alleged to be too specific to dismiss as accident.

The “Tesla + FBI + Trump name” link

The claimed 1943 incident

  • The video claims that in 1943 at the New Yorker Hotel:
    • a maid enters a room and finds Nikola Tesla dead
    • in room 3327

Seizure and assessment of Tesla’s papers

  • After Tesla’s death, the video claims the U.S. government seized his papers:
    • 80 trunks seized
    • 60 returned
    • 20 missing
  • It then claims an MIT electrical engineering professor who assessed Tesla’s papers was John G. Trump (described as Donald Trump’s uncle).
  • The video presents the professor’s conclusion in a declassified FBI file as:
    • Tesla’s papers were “speculative and philosophical”
    • and of “nothing of significant value.”

Final framing

The narrator argues that:

  • names like Trump appear in both fiction and Tesla-related historical records, and
  • this coincidence—combined with earlier “future-like” storytelling—suggests a larger hidden mechanism (presented as time travel).

The video ends by encouraging viewers to verify the public-domain books and by claiming that a “missing” detail involves why Lockwood’s last novel is titled The Last President.

Presenters / contributors

  • Ingersoll Lockwood (author discussed)
  • Nikola Tesla (historical figure discussed)
  • John G. Trump (MIT professor / assessed Tesla’s papers, as claimed)
  • Morgan Robertson (author discussed)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (author discussed)
  • Abraham Lincoln (historical figure referenced)
  • William Jennings Bryan (historical figure referenced)
  • Donald Trump (referenced indirectly via “Trump” family connections)

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