Can Barron Trump TIME TRAVEL??

0:01 Right,- The significance of the passage of time.

0:06 Come- Guys.

0:09 Is Baron Trump, a time traveller?

0:11 Also, is Trump possibly visiting us as a past president from the 18 hundreds?

0:15 Those are questions that are circling online right now.

0:18 Now, the Trump family obviously has been quick to deny all

0:21 of these rumours of the president's son being a time traveller.

0:24 I mean like nobody in their right mind is actually gonna be like,

0:26 yes, Donald Trump's son is a time traveller.

0:28 Let's confirm this.

0:28 But that right there is the craziest conspiracy

0:30 that is currently taking the internet by storm.

0:32 And interestingly, it doesn't just stop with Baron Trump and Donald Trump,

0:36 it also includes Elon Musk,

0:38 it also includes the shooter from the White House Correspondent Centre.

0:40 It also includes Hanavi and maybe, but we should be taking from all of this is

0:45 not necessarily that time travel does certifiably exist,

0:48 but that our country has been in a predicament like

0:50 this before and somehow by the grace of God, we survived.

0:54 So maybe it's not a prophecy,

0:56 maybe it's just a coincidence and maybe a lot of history.

0:59 Now, before we dive into this, and I weave this tale for you guys,

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1:10 Alright, I am so excited about this episode.

1:13 My fingers were tangling the entire time that I was writing this.

1:16 This is just so cool.

1:17 It's so up my alley.

1:18 It's like crazy theories.

1:20 It's niche internet content.

1:21 I mean, it's not really niche,

1:22 it's like literally going viral, but it's internet content.

1:24 And then also at the end,

1:25 we're going to analyse a book like my English major Self is so happy.

1:29 Like I promise you people, an English degree, I am putting it to use.

1:32 All right?

1:33 Anyway, so while this story, this conspiracy theory about Baron Trump being

1:36 a time traveller is going viral right now.

1:38 This theory has actually been making the rounds since Trump's first term.

1:41 So it originally blew up on four chan as all good theories do.

1:44 And a lot of those communities truly believe that Baron was the future

1:47 of this country and that these books that we're gonna talk about are prophecies.

1:51 But now, fast forward almost a decade, thanks to TikTok,

1:54 deep dives and Reddit threads and viral posts on X,

1:56 these theories are becoming mainstream enough that actually Laura

1:59 Trump and Kai Trump are even talking about it.

2:02 Just watch.

2:03 Is Barron Trump a time traveller?

2:05 No, he's not.

2:06 You sure?

2:07 I'm sure.

2:07 Because- You know what I'm talking about, right?

2:08 I- Know, I've seen some stuff on TikTok.

2:10 Yeah, he's not, don't worry.

2:11 There, there, there was a, there was

2:12 a book written about the adventures of Baron Trump.

2:15 I'm not trying to ruin anybody or reign on any parades here.

2:20 Baron Trump is not a time traveller.

2:22 Sorry to say it.

2:23 I'm sorry I broke a lot of people's hearts today.

2:26 Yeah, I think that theory is crazy, obviously.

2:31 But listen, that should show you out

2:33 there how much like really crazy stuff exists.

2:37 Okay, name me one time traveller name me.

2:41 Anybody who who actually can say that that's a real thing.

2:44 It doesn't exist.

2:45 Name me one time traveller.

2:46 It does not exist.

2:47 All right.

2:48 We've heard that from the Trump family.

2:49 Let's, let's put away the conspiracy.

2:50 It does not exist.

2:51 The Trump family told us he's not a time traveller.

2:53 So obviously let's just believe them with it's debunked once and for all.

2:57 Now just as an aside, this is now like so mainstream.

3:00 Obviously Kai and Laura are talking about it.

3:01 The Guardian even wrote an article about it over the last couple of weeks

3:04 and they actually had a line specifically

3:06 about Laura's response here that you just saw.

3:08 And I am so sorry Laura because I do really like her.

3:10 But this line was hysterical.

3:12 The author wrote, wow, that was actually a really good point, Laura.

3:15 I initially thought the theory might have legs, but now that you mention it,

3:18 I can't actually name a time traveller,

3:19 not a single one with analytical skills like these.

3:22 It is no wonder Laura has her own show on Fox

3:24 News and one served as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

3:28 Now, obviously this writer does not like the Trump family,

3:30 does not like Republicans, but it is quite funny.

3:32 And like obviously, no offence, Stel Laura, I went on her show.

3:35 She was so kind and gracious, literally like flew her entire team,

3:38 all the secret service down to Nashville to work with me.

3:40 It was wonderful.

3:40 But in her defence, like I don't even know how you

3:43 would respond to allegations of your brother-in-law being a time traveller,

3:46 but we do have to admit her saying,

3:48 name me one time traveller, they don't exist, is pretty funny.

3:50 Anyway, moving on from that, I just wanted to lay

3:52 that groundwork and give the context that this is becoming pretty mainstream.

3:55 It's getting a lot of attention these days.

3:57 So in order to understand this now viral story,

3:59 we need to take it all the way back to the late

4:02 18 hundreds because this is where this conspiracy theory originates.

4:05 So Ingers, so Lockwood, who was an American lawyer, a diplomat and author,

4:09 wrote a series of children's novellas,

4:11 which starred a protagonist named Baron Trump.

4:15 So you can see the covers of the books here.

4:17 There are two of them.

4:18 The first one was called Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey.

4:21 And then the second was called the Travels and Adventures

4:23 of Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger.

4:27 So you might be thinking, okay, whatever, you know John Smith,

4:30 there's plenty of books with people's names in them.

4:32 I'm named after a literary character.

4:34 Who cares, Brett, whatever.

4:36 But we can't stop there because in these novellas,

4:39 little Baron Trump was a wealthy young boy who lived in someplace

4:42 called Castle Trump and went on time travelling adventures with his dog.

4:47 And you might think, okay, ha, that's funny.

4:49 He is living in like the equivalent of Trump Tower.

4:51 But God, we can actually, guys,

4:52 we can dial in even more because back in the eighties,

4:55 Trump was actually in the casino business.

4:57 And for a time one of his New Jersey casinos was named Trump Castle.

5:01 And you can see an old commercial right here.

5:03 They did all of these like royalty themed commercials.

5:06 And then you can see Trump's castle.

5:08 And again, you might think, okay, whatever.

5:09 Ha, ha ha.

5:10 That's silly.

5:11 That's fun.

5:11 But again, the comparisons between Baron Trump

5:14 today and these novels from the 18 hundreds,

5:16 they don't just stop there because little Baron in these books,

5:19 he is guided by a mentor and that mentor's name is Dawn,

5:23 the mentor in the the the man who is helping

5:26 guide Baron on these adventures time travelling to Russia time,

5:29 travelling all over the world.

5:31 His name is Don.

5:32 And also in the book, the Trump family,

5:35 the family of Baron Trump is of German descent.

5:37 Much like our modern day Trumps are now.

5:39 And yet guys, it still gets even stranger because Ingersoll

5:43 Lockwood did not just write the marvellous adventures of Baron Trump.

5:47 He also wrote another novella, this one he wrote in 1896.

5:51 And this one was called The Last President.

5:53 It also went by 19 hundreds.

5:55 It had two different titles, but most commonly is known as the Last President.

5:59 And it follows a unlikely populous leader and unexpected outsider candidate

6:03 who happens to win the presidency in the United States of America,

6:07 ushering in unfortunately the downfall of the USA.

6:11 But listen to this, this author writes the second book,

6:13 the Last President is where things get

6:14 even stranger in regards to this conspiracy theory.

6:16 It describes a shocking and contentious election that leaves New York City,

6:20 Trump's hometown in chaos.

6:21 Protestors Storm Fifth Avenue where Trump Tower stands today led

6:25 by anarchists and socialists outraged by the election of a populist president,

6:29 adding to the intrigue the fictional president

6:31 appoints a man named Pence to his cabinet.

6:35 I mean, come on.

6:36 It just like, this is so much fun, it's so crazy,

6:38 but it is so much fun because we still are not finished.

6:41 We have to tie all of this together.

6:42 So bouncing back to Little Baron, little Baron in his adventures,

6:45 you should know that little baron Trump in the book,

6:48 his best friend is named Elon.

6:50 So now we have Elon Musk accidentally in the mix.

6:53 Elon obviously makes us think of Tesla.

6:55 And what do you know,

6:57 iconic inventor and engineer Nicola Tesla is also part of this theory.

7:01 So this is what TikTok has to say.

7:03 Just watch- Donald Trump's uncle John G.

7:07 Trump worked for the FBI.

7:10 Now when Nicola Tesla died, they sent him in because he's a scientist,

7:16 he's a physicist engineer, smart guy.

7:18 So they're like, Hey, go in to Nicola Tesla's, you know,

7:22 room and decipher all his works and whatnot because you know,

7:27 Nicola Tesla discovered free energy and a multitude of things, right?

7:32 So Donald Trump's uncle goes in there and says, ah, we didn't fight anything.

7:38 A bunch of bs.

7:40 You don't think that Nicola Tesla who had

7:45 discovered free energy and manipulated electric mag magnetism,

7:49 which had that you can in theory bend time, light and space this man's works was

7:58 confiscated by him and he didn't find anything.

8:01 So that is the theory that is taken TikTok by hold.

8:04 And you might be thinking, okay, Brett, like this is so weird.

8:07 It is TikTok brain run.

8:08 Who even are these podcasters with the dramatic music behind it?

8:11 Like, no, no, no, let's just, you know, cut the tape, let's move on.

8:14 This is crazy.

8:15 But here's the thing,

8:16 they aren't necessarily saying anything that's untrue because Trump's

8:19 FBI uncle did after his death go through Tesla's research.

8:23 Listen to this, on January 9th, 1943,

8:25 two days after Nicola Tesla died destitute in a New York City hotel,

8:29 the FBI called MIT professor, an esteemed electrical engineer, John G.

8:33 Trump, to determine if any of the belongings in the investor's estate,

8:37 which included a purported weapon of mass destruction that Tesla called

8:40 the death ray would be dangerous if they fell into enemy hands.

8:44 So that actually happened.

8:46 That's Trump's connection to Nicola Tesla.

8:48 And there is a theory out there,

8:49 the Nikola Tesla was already time travelling in a sense that he was,

8:53 you know, receiving information from the future

8:55 was possibly even in contact with aliens.

8:57 I know you're probably going like Brett, Brett, Brent, hold on.

8:59 But guys, this is not even like a weird four chan TikTok theory.

9:02 Look at this clip from the History Channel.

9:05 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe there may be

9:08 another explanation for Tesla's uncanny abilities and mysterious visions.

9:15 They suggest the spontaneous episodes are proof

9:19 that Tesla was receiving information from another worldly- Source.

9:24 These images would literally burst into his mind somehow,

9:29 somewhere some connection was made ends the same

9:33 way that biblical prophets received their prophecy.

9:37 Nicola Tesla was clearly in touch with something.

9:42 You have to wonder if extraterrestrials themselves weren't feeding

9:46 him images of inventions that only he could understand.

9:50 I mean, the entire thing just freaks me out.

9:52 Like I've watched that clip multiple times

9:53 now as I've been putting together the episode.

9:55 I get chills every single time.

9:56 I don't like thinking about those things.

9:58 It is very unnerving to me personally.

10:00 I also loved this comment underneath History Channel's video and somebody said,

10:04 imagine being so intelligent that people think you are in contact with aliens,

10:08 which is pretty epic.

10:09 So now tying this all back together, the alleged conspiracy goes that what

10:12 actually happened two days after Nico Nicola

10:15 Tesla's death was that Trump's uncle did find something in his hotel room.

10:18 He found Tesla's time travel plans,

10:20 and now the entire Trump family, maybe some elites,

10:23 but the Trump family for sure has access

10:25 to this kind of technology and that runs

10:28 congruently with Baron the time travelling boy

10:30 from the 18 hundreds theory as well.

10:32 Or the other theory is that Lockwood, the author was just some kind of prophet.

10:36 So there are two theories here.

10:37 Trump family time travellers,

10:38 a prophet from the 18 hundreds, maybe they worked together,

10:41 I have no idea, but that is what people are talking about.

10:44 Now there is also a whole other rabbit hole.

10:45 You can go down with Tesla.

10:47 The theory is that he was murdered by the government

10:49 because he found out how to make energy free, which you can read here.

10:51 It claims that Nikola Tesla discovered a way to provide

10:54 unlimited or nearly free wireless electricity to the world.

10:56 And that powerful bankers, industrialists or the government stepped

10:59 in because it would destroy energy profits.

11:02 Now people love this theory.

11:03 A lot of people are a hundred percent sold on it.

11:05 It's also very in line with theories like the sinking

11:08 of the Titanic where people claim that JP Morgan,

11:10 who owned the parent company of the Titanic,

11:12 was one of the creators of the Federal Reserve, da da Dun,

11:15 that he actually sunk the ship because allegedly three

11:18 major opponents of establishing the Fed were on board.

11:20 They were going to try to convince him where they

11:22 were gonna stop him from being able to establish the Fed.

11:24 He was also supposed to get on the Titanic and sail with them.

11:27 He got ill last minute and pulled out.

11:29 Then mysteriously the ship, you know,

11:30 hit an iceberg and sunk not trying to go down more rabbit holes,

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13:45 Alright, now back to these time

13:47 travelling conspiracies because we still have more.

13:49 So to make this entire thing just crazier,

13:51 you know everybody's talking about Baron Trump,

13:53 they're talking about 18 hundreds Donald Trump.

13:55 At the same time simultaneously on social media,

13:57 there are a few other time travelling allegations that have also gone viral.

14:01 For example, this was an email that Jeffrey Epstein was CC'd on in 2011

14:05 and it went viral after the most recent drop of some of the Epstein files.

14:08 So in this email, this person says, Seth,

14:11 we should explore the biological consequences of time travel.

14:14 It would be amusing to calculate the rate of evolution

14:16 of a population or a mutant that can travel in time.

14:19 Signed M casual, why not Seth?

14:22 Let, let's just CC Jeffrey, why not It's a, you know, it's a Monday afternoon.

14:25 What time did they send this?

14:26 2:00 PM on a Monday afternoon.

14:28 Let's explore it.

14:28 Why not?

14:29 It would be amusing to see what would

14:32 happen to a society if time travel was real.

14:35 So that went viral a couple of months ago.

14:36 Now in addition to that, there been a few

14:38 instances of inactive X accounts allegedly predicting the future.

14:42 For example, people found a random X account that only had one post in 2023.

14:47 This person posted the name of the White House correspondence,

14:51 dinner shooter, Cole Allen, nothing else.

14:53 Never posted any other thing.

14:55 Just simply his name, Cole Allen, in December of 2023.

14:59 Now where this really gets trippy and like makes

15:01 the hair on my arm stand up a little bit,

15:02 is that Cole Allen interned at NASA in 2014,

15:06 and that happened to be the same year that NASA released a paper.

15:09 It was co-authored by a man named Henry Martinez.

15:13 Look at the name on this X account, Henry Martinez.

15:16 Now Henry and the other authors

15:18 of this paper were all connected to Lockheed Martin,

15:20 and this is the PDF pulled directly from the NASA website.

15:23 The document ID is there in the hyperlink.

15:25 If you guys wanna zoom in and look at that in case

15:26 anybody really wants to get into the nitty gritty of this paper.

15:29 But it is called testing Orion's Fairing Separation System.

15:31 And this is really where it gets even weirder for me because,

15:34 not that this all wasn't strange already,

15:36 but in my mind I thought, okay, well they were working at NASA at the same time.

15:39 Obviously this guy was some kind of researcher, Lockheed Martin,

15:42 this was an intern, but you know, it was the same year.

15:44 Maybe they crossed paths.

15:45 Did they chat in the cafeteria?

15:47 Like did he know him?

15:48 Did he just make a random post of his name?

15:49 I don't know, like I, it's just maybe they knew each other was my first thought.

15:52 But no, when you look into it,

15:53 Henry Martinez from NASA was working on the Orion programme,

15:56 which was based in Houston, Texas.

15:57 Cole Allen was an intern at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

16:00 which was based in Pasadena, California.

16:03 So there is barely a chance that they crossed paths.

16:06 And now to make things even weirder,

16:07 I feel like I keep saying that's like to make it even weirder, let's go further.

16:10 But I mean that's really what we're doing here.

16:11 This same Henry Martinez account has this as its cover photo.

16:15 I first looked at that and I was like, okay, interesting.

16:17 Dripping paint, I don't know, abstracts,

16:19 something you'd see at a modern art museum.

16:21 But then people on X pointed out that that banner

16:24 is the header of the eus time machine website.

16:28 And then people took it even further because when you alter the image,

16:31 I dunno how people are doing this, but they realise

16:34 that it looks eerily similar to Trump at Butler yelling, fight, fight, fight.

16:40 As you can see right there.

16:41 Like I, I saw all of this and I was like, oh my God, I'm literally going crazy.

16:43 I need to pull my head outta the San Diego,

16:45 touch some grass because I am like going down too many rabbit holes.

16:48 Like I, I understand how people online lose

16:51 their minds because this is all so crazy.

16:53 I cannot even fathom how people went down this rabbit

16:55 hole in the first place and made these connections.

16:57 I am not that expert of a researcher.

16:59 I am just compiling the information for you guys in an interesting story,

17:02 but it truly is wild.

17:03 But I hate to tell you, we still aren't finished.

17:06 We have more to dive into because another random inactive account,

17:09 this one back in 2022, seemingly predicted the 2026 outbreak of Honda

17:13 virus that the world is now seeing unfold.

17:15 This person said it's soothsayer account.

17:17 June 11th, 2020 2, 20 23, Corona ended 2026 Han Virus.

17:23 And if you don't know, there is a strain of a rat virus.

17:26 I think it is transported through like rat faeces,

17:30 but there is also a human strain called like the Andes Han Virus.

17:33 There was an outbreak on a cruise ship.

17:34 Now it's popping up all over the world.

17:36 It's crazy.

17:36 If you have not seen it, get your like coronavirus, TikTok, dances ready?

17:39 Get the fluffy coffee ready.

17:40 We might be back in the lockdown, I don't know, but it's weird.

17:43 So yeah, take that as you will.

17:44 Maybe time travel really does exist.

17:46 Maybe everybody in the world gets to play with it except for us have no idea.

17:49 Or maybe these are just a bunch of very, very odd coincidences.

17:55 Now, as a little aside,

17:56 before we get into the like final chapter of this episode,

17:58 I do wanna say all of this reminds me of a really

18:01 fun time travelling TV show that I watched many years ago.

18:03 It actually came out in 2016.

18:05 It was called Timeless.

18:06 It only had two seasons, but I loved it.

18:07 Like if you like this kind of stuff, sci-fi,

18:10 but also you're a history buff, there's a little bit of romance in there.

18:12 If you want more of this, go check it out.

18:13 I love it.

18:14 I might go re-watch it.

18:15 I'm pissed that they never renewed it after that second season.

18:17 But anyway, go watch it.

18:18 It's called timeless.

18:19 If you want more of this type of thing, you will enjoy it.

18:21 Anyway, again, I don't know how many times I can say it, it just gets weirder.

18:23 All of this is so crazy.

18:25 And I personally find stories like

18:27 this, deep dives like this really interesting, very entertaining and intriguing.

18:31 Some online I know will call this brain rot.

18:34 They're like, why is Brett Cooper giving this time?

18:36 But I actually think that there was something really

18:38 interesting and relevant to take away from all of this.

18:40 And that actually goes back to Lockwood's book, the Last President.

18:43 And this is where I kinda wanna take a step back

18:44 from the time travel aspect and actually

18:46 look at what Lockwood was writing about.

18:48 And sure, you know, some people might say, yes, it's a prophecy.

18:50 He was from the future.

18:51 He knew what was gonna happen.

18:52 But we can also just say that in 2026, we are simply repeating American history.

18:57 Because when you actually look at what was happening

18:59 in America in 1896 when Lockwood wrote the last President,

19:02 it is almost disorienting how familiar everything feels because in 1896,

19:07 we had a country that had just come through

19:09 a massive economic collapse and there was a massive wealth discrepancy.

19:12 This was the yielded age.

19:14 There is also a TV show based on that if you wanna go watch that.

19:16 But regular people in America were watching wealth

19:19 be consolidated at the very tip top of society.

19:21 Meanwhile, their farms were being foreclosed, their wages were being crushed.

19:24 They felt like the entire political and economic system was rigged against them,

19:28 which honestly, it kind of was again, true story, what we're dealing with now.

19:31 Meanwhile, the world was experiencing rapid change in terms of industry.

19:34 There was rapid industrialization and innovation that was dramatically

19:37 changing the job landscape and career paths for young people.

19:40 It was changing wages forever.

19:41 So everybody in the world was having to adapt to that.

19:44 And so around this time then in walks a populist candidate,

19:47 this is a true story, he's a democrat,

19:48 William Jennings Bryan, he was this unhinged,

19:51 crazy outsider that terrified the establishment in DC in America.

19:55 But he electrified normal Americans.

19:57 He made them feel empowered.

19:59 He made them feel like they had a chance to stand

20:01 up against the man like he was their voice up in Washington.

20:04 And that candidate, William Jennings Bryan,

20:06 he was the inspiration behind Lockwood's

20:08 protagonist in the book, the Last President.

20:10 So all around the country, which Lockwood writes about.

20:12 This is like in real American history, protests were firing off as angry,

20:15 disgruntled Americans were standing up to this big business, big government.

20:18 The anarchist and socialist movements really took hold around that time.

20:21 Like the unrest in the country was just incredibly, incredibly significant.

20:24 And essentially Americans in large part,

20:25 thanks to this political outsider who ran,

20:27 I think three times for president, he never won though.

20:30 They started to realise how rigged the system

20:32 was and how fragile the institutions truly were.

20:34 Plus they were all pitted against each other.

20:37 Cities were burning protests were taking hold again,

20:39 like you heard about at the top of the episode,

20:41 like everybody protesting and marching down Fifth Avenue.

20:44 That was real.

20:44 And so I'm thinking about all of this as I'm looking into his book and I'm like,

20:48 oh my gosh, like that sounds familiar.

20:50 Like I like listened to this paragraph from the book.

20:52 This starts one of the chapters, the fateful year of 99 upon its coming in found

20:56 the Republic of Washington in dire and dangerous straits.

20:59 The commercial and industrial boom had spent its force.

21:02 And now the frightful evils of a debased

21:04 currency coupled with demoralising effects of rampant

21:07 paternalism were gradually strangling the land to death

21:09 capital ever timid and distrustful in such times,

21:12 hid itself in safe deposit vaults or fled to Europe labour,

21:15 although really hard pressed and lacking the very

21:18 necessities of life was loud mouthed and defiant.

21:20 Socialism and anarchism found willing years into which

21:23 to pour their burning words of hatred and malevolence.

21:26 And the consequence was that serious rioting broke

21:28 out in the larger cities of the north,

21:30 often taxing the capacities of the local authorities to the utmost.

21:33 Like I read that paragraph and I was like,

21:34 that could literally be written right now.

21:36 This is something that would like come into my inbox from a substack

21:39 or that I subscribed to and I would not think anything of it.

21:41 And yet that was written in 1896.

21:44 So all of this to say, I'm looking at all of this, I'm,

21:47 you know, hearing, oh my God, Lockwood was this, you know, prophet of sorts.

21:50 And I'm looking at his novel, his novella,

21:52 and I see Lockwood writing from a place of fear.

21:55 You know, he was concerned about what would happen next

21:57 in this country considering the political climate that he was living in.

21:59 And he was exploring what could happen if this outsider

22:02 that he was watching campaign throughout all of these years.

22:05 If an outsider like William Jennings, Bryan actually got into office,

22:09 and in my opinion, he did what rate authors do best,

22:12 which was observing the world around him and writing about,

22:15 its spinning a tail based on those observations.

22:18 And I think what we can take away from all of this is

22:20 that maybe the political landscape that we have found ourselves in today,

22:22 that feels so eerily similar to what he

22:24 was writing about in the late 18 hundreds.

22:26 One that can feel so volatile and hopeless.

22:29 Like the end is everybody's talking about,

22:31 you know, 250 years, that's when a Republic falls.

22:34 This is the end of democracy, it's the end of America that actually,

22:37 it's just something the previous generations have

22:39 already experienced and they have already survived.

22:42 And in my opinion, the question that Lockwood was

22:44 asking throughout this entire novella was when does a democracy,

22:47 or can a democracy ever become too divided and too distrustful

22:51 to the point that it is not able to save itself?

22:54 And it's kind of unfortunate it's a black pill moment because his book

22:57 actually answers the question and he answers it with a resounding yes.

23:01 Like a a, a country can become too divided to save itself.

23:04 He ends the book with a capital literally being blown up.

23:06 He's saying like it will end at this point of time,

23:08 which is not really the message that we wanna

23:10 hear if we are relating this to the modern world.

23:13 But the good thing is,

23:14 the good thing is in actual American history, the Capitol wasn't blown up.

23:18 That didn't happen.

23:19 We stared into the abyss,

23:20 we stared into this destruction, we fought to come back.

23:23 And we're still here in 2026.

23:24 Now is our country perfect?

23:26 Absolutely not.

23:26 But it is still standing and there are

23:29 still good people that are fighting for the values

23:31 of our country and fighting for what they

23:33 believe an America of tomorrow can look like,

23:36 who want to see America and all of its ideals survive.

23:39 And that is a very positive thing for me to think about.

23:42 And so tying this all back together with the time travel,

23:45 the prophets and Barron Trump, all of that.

23:46 Like if Lockwood was actually a prophet,

23:48 if he was writing about Barron Trump and what happens when Trump is president,

23:53 then maybe he would've written about what actually happened.

23:55 He would've written about that.

23:56 Or maybe he actually is a prophet and we just have another thing coming.

23:59 He was like, all right,

24:00 that didn't happen in the 18 hundreds, but yet ready for 2026.

24:03 So either way, let's hold onto our hats because things are brewing.

24:07 That's all I know.