Novel from 1893 sparks wild conspiracy that President Trump's youngest son Barron is a time traveler

Published: 00:48, 6 May 2026 | Updated: 00:55, 6 May 2026 A novel written more than 130 years ago has fueled renewed conspiracy theories that President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, is actually a time traveler.  Ingersoll Lockwood, an American political writer and novelist, penned the children's book 'Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey' in 1893 about a wealthy aristocratic boy who lives in 'Castle Trump' and is guided on his journey to Russia by a man named 'Don.' The eerie similarities to the Trump family of the present, as well as the fantastical tales in the book, have led some to conclude that the Trump family is capable of time travel. The wild theory has gained so much traction in recent years that Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, was forced to deny the speculation on her podcast Thursday, as she marveled at the 'amount of views that some of these videos get where they really dissect how this really worked out.' 'I'm not trying to ruin anybody or rain on any parades here. Barron Trump is not a time traveler,' Lara declared in the latest episode of The Right View with Lara Trump.  'Sorry to say it, I'm sorry, I broke a lot of people's hearts today,' she continued, calling the theory 'crazy.' Lara then challenged her viewers to 'Name me one time traveler. Name me anybody who actually can say that that's a real thing. 'It doesn't exist, but people have gotten so far off the rails on this Barron Trump being a time traveler thing,' she said. 'I don't know what to tell you. I think it's crazy,' she continued. 'I've known Barron for 18 years. OK, he's not a time traveler. I've seen him grow up.' Conspiracy theorists have posited that Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump, is actually a time traveler The theory is fueled by Ingersoll Lockwood's 1893 novel, 'Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey' In Lockwood's novel, Baron Trump (with only one 'r' in his first name) is guided on an adventure through Russia by 'the master of all masters,' a man named 'Don.' The Trump family motto, the one in the book that is, claims: 'The pathway to glory is strewn with pitfalls and dangers.' In the storybook's illustrations of Baron Trump, he is lavishly dressed and decked in jewels, as he leaves Castle Trump and begins his journey to Russia to find an entrance to alternate dimensions. The novel describes Baron as bored by his life of luxury, and has an active imagination and a 'very active brain.' But Lockwood also wrote the political novel, 'The Last President,' about a political outsider from New York who gets elected president. The story opens in a New York City in turmoil. It's early November right after the election of an enormously opposed candidate. The east side of the city, which is where the Women's March began the day after Donald Trump's first inauguration, is in a 'state of uproar.'  The 19th century book says police officers shouted through the streets as 'Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years.' 'The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob,' the novel continues. 'Would the troops be in time to save it?'  The novel features a wealthy aristocratic boy who lives in 'Castle Trump' and is guided on his journey to Russia by a man named 'Don' Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, denied the conspiracy theory on her podcast on Thursday The inaugural Women's March concluded just two blocks short of Trump Tower International on Fifth Avenue. But the marchers could not reach the tower because of police barricades. Once netizens realized the similarities between Lockwood's novels and real life, some concluded the Trump family must have traveled through time. They note that President Trump's uncle, John Trump, had access to Nikola Tesla's papers. Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who was allegedly also researching time travel. The theorists have clung onto President Trump's remarks in 2016 that 'I know things that other people don’t know,' as evidence, as well as sketches of futuristic aircraft drawn by artist Charles Dellschau, a Prussian immigrant who came to the US in 1850 and died in 1923.  Before his death, Dellschau created depictions of fantastical flying machines that he called 'aeros,' which often resembled a mix of early airships, balloons and primitive airplanes. They mysteriously contain the word 'TRUMP' and even featured the number 47 - which the conspiracy theorists claim is a link to Trump serving as the 47th president of the United States. Dellschau's sketches also included one showing a golden-haired figure steering a machine labeled with the number 45, another link to Trump serving as the 45th president.  Lockwood also wrote the political novel, 'The Last President,' about a political outsider from New York who gets elected president Conspiracy theorists also point to sketches of futuristic aircraft drawn by artist Charles Dellschau that mysteriously contain the word 'Trump' and references to 45 and 47. President Donald Trump served as both the 45th and 47th commander-in-chief According to the American Visionary Art Museum in Maryland, Dellschau's fictitious aeros were powered by an anti-gravity substance he envisioned called 'NB Gas' or 'supe,' that enabled them to fly without normal fuels. The technology is eerily similar to descriptions of UFOs, which the government calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, and President Trump has vowed to disclose to the American people during his term. As for whether time travel is actually possible or just a work of science fiction, no major scientific institution, such as NASA, has ever dismissed the theory as impossible. In fact, many prominent scientists have claimed that time travel is possible to some degree, including a 2020 study in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that mathematically showed backward time travel could happen without creating confusing paradoxes or breaking the rules of cause and effect. However, famed physicist Stephen Hawking argued in his 1994 book that 'The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.' The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. 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