World of the Bizarre

'Time travel' conspiracy surrounds 100-year-old 'Trump' drawings

By T.K. Randall
March 14, 2026 ·  12 comments

Image: Donald Trump
Credit: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 (adapted) Dellschau, who emigrated to Texas in 1850, became a figure of some intrigue when his sketches and notebooks gained more widespread recognition many years after his death in 1923.

His creations often took the form of drawings depicting fantastical, futuristic airships called "aeros" which stayed aloft thanks to a fictional anti-gravitational fuel he called "NB Gas".

The most notable thing of all, however, is the fact that some of his illustrations seemed to contain strangely coincidental references to Donald Trump's presidency.

Some of the machines he had drawn had the word "Trump" emblazoned on them, while another showed a man who looks like Trump and the number "45" (Trump was the 45th US president).

Dellschau wasn't the only person to reference an individual by the name of Trump in his works, either.During the 1800s, writer Ingersoll Lockwood penned several novels for children involving a character named "Baron Trump" who lives in a building named after himself ("Castle Trump").

Many of his personality traits also seemed eerily reminiscent of President Trump.

Lockwood even wrote another book about a populist candidate winning the 1896 presidential election and bringing about the downfall of the American Republic.

So could any of this have been a foretelling of the future ?

Probably not - but it's certainly fun to speculate.

Is President Trump a time traveler? Century-old sketches spark new conspiracy theories https://t.co/TyqVrOr3Yk pic.twitter.com/5P3cP7iFXH

- New York Post (@nypost) March 13, 2026

Source: Mail Online | Comments (12)

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