Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

The Baron Trump novels are two childrens novels written in 1889 and 1893 by the American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood. They remained obscure until 2017 when they received media attention for perceived similarities between their protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump. Ingersoll published the first novel Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger in 1889 and its sequel Baron Trumps Marvelous Underground Journey in 1893. The novels recount the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp who goes by Baron Trump as he discovers weird underground civilizations offends the natives flees from his entanglements with local women and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump. The novels were part of a trend in American childrens literature that responded to the demand for fantastic adventure stories triggered by Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland (1865). In July 2017 the books were rediscovered by Internet forum users and then the media who amused themselves by highlighting perceived similarities between the protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump whose son is named Barron Trump. Jaime Fuller wrote in Politico that Baron Trump is precocious restless and prone to get in trouble often mentions his massive brain and has a personalized insult for most people he meets. Chris Riotta noted in Newsweek that Baron Trumps adventures begin in Russia and also mentioned another book of Ingersolls The Last President in which the presidents home city of New York is riven by protests against a rigged presidential election.