When it comes to alleged prophecy and the U.S., which is in the midst of great transition, perhaps the most intriguing “prediction” came not from a mystic or seer but a political writer and lawyer in the late 1800s. This was Ingersoll Lockwood from Ossining, New York, who wrote a series of novels including two for children that focused on a curious fictional character whose name (if this rings a bell) was “Baron Trump.”

That’s missing the second “r” in the current presidential son’s first moniker, of course, but it seems nonetheless uncanny. We did a “Special Report” on it many years ago, in 2018.

In the old novel, “Baron Trump” was portrayed as an aristocratically endowed young man living in a place called “Trump Castle.”

That was the name, a century later, in essence, of a casino now-President Donald Trump built in Atlantic City. 

In the fiction—again, from more than a hundred years ago—”Baron Trump” was further described as having an unending imagination, an “active” brain bored with the lavish lifestyle to which he was accustomed.

In the novels, more ironically still, the boy visits Russia on an adventure that ends up shaping the rest of his life.

And while in Russia, the fictional Baron Trump’s adventures are guided by a “master of all masters” whom Lockwood named “Don.”

We’re not making this up.

Uncanniest of all: Lockwood’s final novel, published in 1896 and about an election, described a “state of uproar” in New York City over an outsider winning the U.S. presidency.

The name “Trump” wasn’t in that Ingersoll  novel, but the links are as clear as they are startling.

“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,” Lockwood wrote. “The Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob.”

Of course, Fifth Avenue is where Trump Tower is located. Asked the novel, “Would the troops be in time to save it?”

One notes the uproars in places like Minneapolis and the “No Kings” marches two weeks ago that had up to eight million on the streets in various cities protesting what demonstrators see as an usurpation of democracy.

You can make of it what you might. 

Unnervingly, the book was entitled: “The Last President.”

Mobs? A violent civil uprising? Years ago, when the current president was first elected, were there not large protests, on Fifth Avenue, at Trump Tower?

Stay tuned. More to come?

The “times they are a’changing,” said one songwriter.

Our refuge is our unchanging Savior.

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