‘Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey’

Trouble viewing? [Click here.]( Daily Debunker 19 January 2019 You may never have heard of an obscure, 19th-century author named Ingersoll Lockwood, but two of his novels, “Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey” and “1900: or, The Last President,” have piqued the curiosity of online conspiracy theorists who find them bizarrely “prescient.” The books recount the adventures of a character named Trump who leads an aristocratic life in a place called Castle Trump until he embarks on a life-changing journey to Russia. In “The Last President,” police try to stop a mob of anarchists and socialists who “threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich,” including a Fifth Avenue hotel (like Trump Tower?) in New York City. Mere coincidence? Of course it is, but don’t let that stop you from joining in the fun as Snopes.com’s Dan Evon takes a closer look at the strange imaginings of Ingersoll Lockwood. [Read more]( Dear Reader In your newsfeed today: Unsourced memes. 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