First let me state that the condition of this book was mint, really superb. Now as to content.
Second, I mistakenly fell for the 'prophetic' aspect of the books, as Lockwood has a story of the Last President who ruins America and at the same time writes books about Baron Trump's adventures. However this is wholly coincidence. The last President is Williams Jenning Bryan, a left wing populist whose followers folded into the Democratic party, who ran on a platform of free silver, since silver is cheap and abundant, that means a platform of printing money for rampant inflation. He got his agenda via control of Congress, so the polar opposite of D.J. Trump.
Third the name Trump in Adventures of Baron Trump. Trump being a German name and Lockwood being ambassador to Hanover, perhaps not so odd. In Adventures of..., the man is a pint sized son of a Baron. Again, the opposite of America's Baron Trump, though intelligent.
Fourth, disappointed, I read on. The Last President is more like reading 'End is coming, the end is near, we have a liberal President.' Dull but good job on the ominous tone.
Now the Baron Trump stories, OMG! Pure boredom. I could only ear to read a half a page at a clip. Finally- Spoilers ahead! Little Trump, as they say, gets gold from dad to trek or sail off on many expeditions, which all have the exact same very dull plot. Natural dangers abound. Finally, he finds a land filled with extremely unreal products of evolution, like Ice People, Rock People, Statue People, Frog-Jumping People, Wind People, in all weird shapes and sizes, wholly ludicrous, who have evolved that way over centuries of Darwinian selction. Very 1800s! He is immediately threatened with death for trespassing, but Lo, the small but oddball shaped Princess is delighted with Trump as her toy, and later marriage is ordered. Through very contrived simplistic 'ingenious' methods he overcomes every obstacle like escape from weather, the bride's and king's clutches, again, again, again.
In conclusion, it is very clear Lockwood is aiming at a Jules Verne's Mouse on the Moon or Baron Munchausen type adventure, but it falls short. The contrast between wholly unrealistic and boring events and very basic (and boring) escape plans is just exhausting.
Baron Munchausen, Candide, Verne, even Time Bandits, Hotel Budapest, Harry Potter, succeed by having wild fantastical events but well rooted in realistic circumstances so one can identify with the hero, not Rock People and Volcano snow with feelings. And the escapes feel both real and are set up properly so they emerge naturally as truly ingenious solutions from the hero's options. We always think, Ah, I should have though of that from the plot's clues that were planted! Not 'rubbish!'.
That being said, Lockwood writes well, loquacious like WM Thackeray but not as fun.