The story behind this is that (this is fact except where noted) when Nikola Tesla died, he was claiming to have figured out time travel, and he supposedly said he had already made short jumps and was working on figuring out longer ones. On his death, Trump's uncle, John Trump, was called in to review Tesla's papers that he had in his hotel room (where he lived). SPECULATION is that John Trump decided the time travel info he found was too dangerous for the government to have, and he withheld it, reporting that there was nothing of interest in Tesla's papers. The story goes that before he died, he gave that info to POTUS. Hence the Ingersoll Lockwood books, and, if it were true, winning the 2016 election and the Storm in general.