Lara Trump has dismissed a viral theory thatBarron Trumpis a time traveller, using her podcast on Wednesday 29 April to insist her 20-year-old brother-in-law is 'not a time traveler' and branding the online frenzy around him 'crazy' and 'wild.'
The Barron Trump time traveller theory has circulated in fringe corners of the internet for years, drawing on a series of late-19th-century novels by American author Ingersoll Lockwood. Those books feature a boy called 'Baron Trump' who lives in 'Castle Trump' and is guided by a mentor named 'Don.'
The coincidences have been enough to keep conspiracy forums and TikTok explainers active, with some users convinced the youngest Trump son is secretly skipping through history. None of this has ever been supported by evidence, a point Lara appeared keen to drive home.
Speaking on her podcastLara Trump: Wanted for Questioning, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law opened a segment by addressing what she called a 'wild' narrative about Barron that she had repeatedly seen online.
'Barron Trump is not a time traveler. Sorry to say it,' she told listeners. 'I'm sorry, I broke a lot of people's hearts today.' She said she had watched some of the videos that attempt to connect the Trump family to Lockwood's books and sounded genuinely bemused by the effort people were putting in.
'What is this? I've seen this out there, and by the way, the amount of views that some of these videos get where they really dissect, like how this really worked out, and you go back and there was a Barron Trump — of it is wild, actually, if you really look at it,' she said.
Lara went on to stress that she was not trying to spoil anyone's fun, but she clearly wanted to draw a line. 'I'm not trying to ruin anybody or rain on any parades here. Barron Trump is not a time traveler. Yeah, I think the theory is crazy, obviously, but listen, that should show you out there how much really crazy stuff exists, okay? Name me one time traveler?'
She pushed the point again a few moments later, saying people had gone 'so far off the rails' with their speculation. 'I don't know what to tell you. I think it's crazy. I've known Barron for 18 years, okay, he's not a time traveler.'
There is, it should be said, no public evidence that time travel exists at all, let alone that a 20-year-old political heir has mastered it.
If Lara thought a firm denial would close the book on the Barron Trump time traveller meme, the reaction online suggested otherwise. Once clips from the podcast hit social media, critics and amused onlookers mocked her for treating the theory seriously enough to address it. The very act of rebuttal, they suggested, only breathed more life into a joke that had been bubbling along on its own.
Source: International Business Times UK
