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Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey is a parabolic fantasy novel by Ingersoll Lockwood (1900; or, The Last President). This strange fin de si cle work from 1893 has received wide media attention recently due to the unusual similarities between its hero and US President Donald Trump. The Trump of Lockwood's novel is an aristocratic youth bored with his life of luxury in his New York castle. Searching for adventure, he travels to Russia where he discovers an underground world beneath his feet. Trump journeys ever downward and finds himself lost in peculiar settings surrounded by the strange inhabitants of this foreign land. The story follows the little baron's efforts to navigate the scary Russian underworld and find his way back to America.