A wild theory claims President Donald Trump may be a time traveler, with clues scattered through art and literature for more than a century.
Sketches of futuristic aircraft drawn by artist Charles Dellschau, a Prussian immigrant who came to the US in 1850 and died in 1923, mysteriously contain the word ‘TRUMP’ and even featured the number 47 – the number of presidents the US has had.
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.
However, conspiracy theorists have seized on the repeated appearance of Trump’s name and the numbers associated with both of his terms in the White House as the 45th and 47th commander-in-chief.
The extraordinary theory has also been connected to old novels by Ingersoll Lockwood from the late 1800s, which featured a young character named ‘Baron Trump’ who embarked on incredible adventures with a wise mentor, Don.
In Lockwood’s books, Baron lives in a grand place called Castle Trump and is guided by Don, adding even more intrigue to the theory that America’s first family was foretold decades before the president’s birth.
While some have claimed the artist and author had some mysterious method of knowing the future, others have claimed, without evidence, that the similarities prove the Trump family has time-travel technology and used it to influence world events.
One person on social media claimed: ‘Either Trump is a time traveler or someone put in 200 years of work to make a guy who wasn’t even born yet look like he is one.’
Images created by Charles Dellschau in the early 1900s depicted futuristic vehicles with the word ‘TRUMP’ on them
The images have led to wild theories that claim the reference to Trump is a clue that the current US president is a time traveler
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.
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.
The mystery surrounding the Dellschau sketches has sent conspiracy theorists searching for every possible clue that Trump and his youngest son, Barron, could have traveled through time.
One quote that has gained attention is Trump saying, ‘I know things that other people don’t know,’ both during his 2016 presidential campaign and after he won the White House.
Trump’s past comments on nuclear power have also raised eyebrows. The president has claimed that his uncle Dr John Trump, would explain the power of what’s going to happen, and he was right.’
Celebrity and podcast host Logan Paul has even asked Trump’s granddaughter, Kai, about the Lockwood book and whether it was proof that the human race was living in a virtual simulation.
The teen said she was certain that Barron was not a time traveler, adding: ‘I don’t go down those rabbit holes. I don’t want to go down those rabbit holes.’
Donald Trump (Center) and Barron Trump (Right) seen during the president’s second election to the White House
Trump’s name and the numbers 45 and 47 are seen on multiple images, which allegedly reference his terms as the 45th and 47th president
The mystery grows even stranger when conspiracy fans begin to examine Lockwood’s connection to the time travel theory.
Hewas an American political writer and novelist who wrote two children’s books titled ‘Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey,’ and ‘Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar.’
However, Lockwood also created the ominous political tome, ‘The Last President,’ a story which opens in New York City right after the election of an enormously unpopular candidate.
The 19th-century author wrote that 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.’
‘Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey’ printed in the late 1800s
Conspiracy theorists have claimed Baron Trump in the 19th century tome looks eerily similar to Barron Trump during his father’s first presidential term
In the books featuring Baron Trump, the boy visits Russia on an extraordinary adventure. Baron is guided through his adventure by Don, who is described as ‘the master of all masters.’
The Trump family motto in the book is: ‘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.
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.’
