The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump: and His Wonderful Dog Bulger

...Little Baron Trump like the great Munchhausen has a passion for travel a lust of adventure a fever of imagination. He sees says and does queer things. ...We owe Ingersoll Lockwood thanks that he has given us simply a delightful example of the art of sustained fooling... --Boston Times 1890The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger by INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD with illustrations by George Wharton Edwards is a mixture of travel adventure science fiction and fantasy. Published in 1890 it became one of Lockwoods most popular works together with his other childrens book Baron Trumps Marvellous Underground Journey published in 1893. In 2017 when almost all the news deals with the Trump presidency The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump drew attention due to its uncanny connections with President Trump and his family. The books main character Baron Trump is a wealthy boy with abnormal strength living in Castle Trump and just like President Donald Trump is of German heritage. What makes the story even more remarkable is that Baron Trump is guided by the master of all masters a man named Don to start his voyage to Russia. Even stranger in Lockwoods final novel The Last President (1896) New York City fears the collapse of the republic in 1900 after the transition of presidential power and Americans protest a corrupt election process. Are these books a bizarre coincidence or are they prophetic? Let the reader decide.