Fact Check: Did Donald Trump’s Uncle Really Call Nikola Tesla a Genius?

Just a couple days ago at the Golden Age Summit, Donald Trump gave Elon Musk the Medal of Science Award. He also

mentioned that his uncle reviewed the documents of Nikola Tesla after his passing.

>> They went anywhere and everywhere [music] Tesla had ever been and they seized everything.

>> You mentioned Tesla, my uncle, Dr. John Trump, was commissioned by the United States government to do a report on

Nikola Tesla. >> We are in the exact location of Nikola Tesla's lab here in Colorado Springs. We

are here to find out what did John Trump actually find about Nikola Tesla? >> I did come across a number of letters

explaining that he was the inventor of a secret weapon which had rather remarkable properties.

>> Donald Trump just confirmed that what he actually found was that Tesla was a true genius.

>> My uncle, after a fairly short period of time, determined that he was a true and great genius and that he was real in

every single way. >> He made a public statement that what he saw was mostly science fiction, not

science fact, but then right after he made that statement, they sequestered the entire collection for 10 years.

>> Everybody is wondering, what is in those documents? What are they hiding from us? What did John Trump know about Nikola

Tesla? >> No evidence or [music] papers were found which referred to any such secret

weapon. >> It was right here that Nikola Tesla proved that the Earth could conduct

electricity. He would put light bulbs 60 to 100 ft away, not connected by any wires at all, and get them to light up.

It's actually insane. >> Coming up, you won't believe what happens when you push [music] this red

button. >> Now we are here with Patrick, who is an author and historian here in Colorado

Springs. How are you, Patrick? >> I'm doing great. Nice to meet you, Angel.

>> Thank you. was incredible. He had a massive turnout here at the Heritage Museum in at Manitou Springs. And what

was the topic? >> My favorite topic, Nikola Tesla. >> I was wondering specifically about

Donald Trump's uncle, John Trump. It sounds like after reviewing the Nikola Tesla files, he said that it was a

mostly philosophical, um, speculative. And so, what do you think he actually found and why did he

sign off on an FBI document saying that there was less, um, stacks than what there actually

were? >> So, I'm very familiar with what happened. Um,

you you have to realize it's January 1943. We're right in the wall of World War II.

And so, Tesla dies, the War Department picks up the phone, calls the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover himself mobilizes every

available agent and they went anywhere and everywhere Tesla had ever been and they seized everything. They even came

here to Colorado Springs and they seized, uh, according to the Pioneers Museum, they seized, uh, about 70 crates

of stuff. They then took everything to a place called Alien Property Storage. So, if you're a foreign national and you die

on US soil, that is where your belongings are kept until your family overseas can make arrangements to claim

your belongings. Vannevar Bush ran all of our top secret projects at the time. He was in charge of the Manhattan

Project and when the United States government was considering the Manhattan Project, Franklin Roosevelt actually had

a meeting scheduled with Tesla to talk about his death ray. >> Now, we are at the Colorado Pioneers

Museum. Inside of this massive, beautiful, historic museum, there are only two exhibits dedicated to Nikola

Tesla. One of them is this a plasma globe which has like ionized, um, filaments. And if you were to touch the

globe, they would be attracted to your hand. So, Nikola Tesla was doing all of this in the 1890s, right? And so, I want

to talk about some insane conspiracy theories because some people claim that Nikola Tesla could have been a time

traveler because in his own writings, he would say that he would get flashes and he could see these machines and he could

even turn them around and he had so much clarity within these visions. And so, some people interpreted that as him

receiving messages from people from a different time or some other life form. We simply cannot help but be reminded of

how some people also believe that Trump's family could be time travelers because of this really insane connection

that some people have pointed out. So, in the 1880s, Ingersoll Lockwood wrote two children's books, Travels and

Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger and Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. Like,

what an insane name to call him Baron Trump when that is Donald Trump's son and that he's going on these underground

adventures and Nikola Tesla at the same time was working on technology that could travel through the ground and

create electricity wireless anywhere across the globe. People call him a time traveler for his work and then in this

book, Baron Trump is somewhat of a time traveler because he's going to different worlds where they have advanced

technologies for the 1890s. And then things get even crazier when Ingersoll wrote a book titled 1900

and it refers to the last president and a bunch of political chaos. So, I just can't help but thinking that there is

something insane happening here. Let me know if you think all of these things are a coincidence and that she just

happened to write a novel about this kid whose name is Barron Trump, which is Donald Trump's son's name. And also in

the book, Barron Trump has a wealthy prominent father from New York, which is very similar to Donald Trump. And also

the book does mention a guy by the name of Don, and also it just hap- so happens to be that Donald Trump's uncle was the

person who reviewed Nikola Tesla's documents, who people also say is a time traveler. But of course those are all

conspiracy theories that came after his passing, and there's no real credible evidence that Nikola Tesla was a time

traveler. But I am not going to let that deter me, and today I am going to time travel.

>> Right. >> And so Tesla ends up dying, and we go with the Manhattan Project. Um Vannevar

Bush called on one of his protégés from MIT, uh John J. Trump, who is the uncle of

Donald Trump. >> Mhm. >> And he asked Mr. Trump to look at the

collection that they had seized. >> Right. >> And he spent several days going through

it, and then he made a public statement that already followed something similar, and that's when they were like, "Who?"

And that's how Tesla kind of got rediscovered. >> Okay.

>> And then the Tesla car came around. And the Tesla car, um you know, Thomas Edison invented a

commercial battery-powered truck that would go a thousand miles in 1910, and the Tesla car will only go

about 300 miles before you have to charge it. >> Ew.

>> But there there's a lot more electronics involved today, but still a thousand miles and 300 miles

I think the technology is still being throttled >> Right.

>> reason. And same with the wireless transmission of power. Um

you know, the the reason why they're suppressing Tesla and they suppressed Tesla to begin with is the same reason

why they suppressed the UFO thing. I mean, they finally came out in 2021 and said there are these objects that are

coming out of the ocean and going into space and we don't know what they are. Um well, they're not using fossil fuels

to get here. And so, you know, that's they don't want us asking those questions yet cuz

they're still making money off of selling us oil, but they have this infrastructure in place.

You know, and it employs masses of amounts of people all over the world. So,

and that's why Morgan had Tesla erased. He was building the world's power grid and

systems were already in place in different cities and all of that would be scrapped if he

had allowed Tesla to continue. >> What was it that Tesla believed that he was perhaps

receiving communications from Mars? >> So, when Tesla was here in Colorado Springs,

he claimed that he did receive signals that he believed were off-world. And he made an announcement and they actually

laughed him off the stage. Um that was right here in Colorado Springs. Well, where is NORAD located? Right here in

Colorado Springs. And what is NORAD doing? They are tracking and listening to everything in space in the same area.

So, maybe there's something there. Um Marconi, who got the Nobel Prize for radio, he used 19 of Tesla's patents to

make his radio work, but he made the same claim. He said, "Hey, I'm picking up signals I

don't believe are coming from our planet." And Tesla was the first to discredit him. And so, when they went to

interview Tesla, they said, "Why are you discrediting Marconi when he's only giving credence to what you've already

claimed?" And Tesla said I'll >> He said, "The difference between me and

Marconi is when I was in Colorado Springs in 1899, I was the only human being on planet

Earth sending and receiving radio signals. Marconi is picking up radio signals from the other side of the

planet, and he is mistaking that as being off-world. That's the difference." >> Oh, okay.

>> And so somebody did ask Tesla, "If you had these signals and you responded to them,

what did you tell them?" And he jokingly said, "I told them we weren't ready. Come back in 300 years."

>> Do you think that the the FBI could have some files or, you know, way of creating endless energy here on Earth, but

they're maybe just not doing that and like why? >> So the FBI was used to seize everything.

And then they took it to alien property storage, and then another organization took over the management. It was called

the OSS, and today the OSS is now the CIA. And so they they took over the management of Tesla's

collection. They are the ones that released all the stuff 10 years later that got shipped overseas.

And I can understand why they were secretive in 1943 because Tesla's family all live live in

what today is Serbia and Croatia. >> Okay. >> And in 1943, we were in the middle of

World War II. >> Right. >> And at the end of World War II, they

knew either the Nazis were going to control that region or the Russians, and they didn't want either one of them

getting wireless transmission of power or the death ray, which was a particle beam, or any of that stuff.

>> Why is it that where Tesla did some of his greatest work, that at this museum they only have two artifacts that relate

to him, and the other one is called thyrite, which wasn't even created by him. It was created after him, which is

used by electrical companies to save their power lines and stuff it will if it was to get struck by lightning. And

so I think this museum could be redone to actually tell us more about Tesla. And so I think I'm feeling the missing

files in this museum because there's such little information about him even when you come right to the place where

he lived. So much so in fact that the museum is talking like it seems like they're going overboard to talk about

like unrelated things. >> Right now we are inside of a 1916 school that was recreated into a bar. This is

called a Bristol Bar and inside you can see right here that they have a replica of a Tesla coil. Check out how awesome

this is guys. So Chris is helping us turn on the Tesla. It's a what what is it?

>> It's a Tesla coil. Yeah. >> A Tesla coil. >> The difference between Einstein and and

Tesla is Tesla would prove his theories by actually building devices that would work.

>> Right. >> So I'm not aware that Einstein ever built anything.

>> And I I believe Nikola Tesla didn't agree with his general relativity. >> Well, he did Well, the

general relativity um it it says general because it doesn't

apply to all relativity. It only applies under those circum- circumstances that Einstein's to talking about. So it's not

a complete um understanding. >> Wow. >> That's why he says this is a general

relativity cuz it only works under those particular circumstances. Our understanding of physics is expanding

leaps and bounds every day. >> Yeah. >> And Tesla was way ahead of his time.

And sometimes he had a hard time dumbing that down for the rest of us. And and people would make fun of him

and abuse him because they didn't understand it. And now we're he's getting vindicated. And hopefully

he'll get brought back from history from being erased from history and more than just radio and

electricity, but also his work with physics and other things. >> And between Edison and Tesla, what

person do you think was more influential on today's society? >> Well, Edison is the guy mentioned in the

history books. That's who we're celebrating, but all our modern society is directly

influenced by Tesla. I mean, everything that's wireless can be traced right back to Tesla.

X-rays, remote control, radio, how we power our world, alternating current. This This is still Tesla's system. It's

been modernized, but it's the system that Tesla created. >> This is a like it's incredible. It's

incredible. Could you tell me like what was the thing that he built here in Colorado?

>> It He had an experimental station. It was basically a barn-like structure that was a giant Tesla coil, and he was

making man-made lightning storms, and he was lighting banks of incandescent light bulbs sometimes as far as 26 miles away

just by touching them to the ground. Going back to Tesla is how they're going to find the answers to those questions.

And it might be some of those papers and crates and stuff that were seized and sequestered. Because they kept all the

good stuff for themselves. There's another conspiracy theory that maybe I can tie it to Tesla. Um in 1908, there

was an mysterious explosion that happened in Siberia, Russia. Uh it destroyed 800,000 acres of

Siberian rainforest. But whatever it had Whatever happened exploded in the atmosphere.

And so um it kind of mimicked a nuclear explosion, but in 1908, nobody had the atomic bomb.

This is in a region of Siberia that's so remote that it took Russia almost 20 years to get to that spot. But they had

other things going on, a revolution and all kinds of stuff. But when they finally got to that spot, they were

expecting to find a impact crater from a meteor or a comet. And there is no impact crater.

So whatever happened blew up in the atmosphere and then the blast pattern came down and

destroyed this whole section of Siberia. And there may be a connection to Tesla with this because in 1908, Tesla was

working his tower on Long Island. Morgan is trying to shut him down. He knew that they were doing the

expedition to the North Pole and in his notes, he talks about creating using the device to shoot a beam over the North

Pole and create this elaborate light show with the aurora borealis that the world press could not ignore. And that

he they couldn't suppress. And then this explosion happens in in Tunguska and then

Tesla kind of had a nervous breakdown and shut the whole tower down. And if you line up his tower with Siberia, if

you go to the North Pole, if it were to curve, it would hit that exact spot.

And so maybe Tesla did cause that and maybe that's another reason why the government suppressed everything because

do you want to confess to the Russian we destroyed 800,000 acres in their

territory in 1908. from a weapon that was fired here. >> That's insane.

>> So and that was part of that death ray technology that Tesla was working on.

>> Is there any connection between the Manhattan Project and the death ray project?

>> No, they were both at one time, they were both being

considered as our our super secret weapon. And of course the the Nazis were obsessed with

technology and secret weapons. Um, Oppenheimer actually quotes the Hindu

Bible, the Vedas, when he detonates the atomic bomb and he says, "And now I've become the

destroyer of worlds." So, he's quoting the god Shiva in those texts. What's interesting is that when

Tesla was dating Sarah Bernhardt, she was friends with Swami Vivekananda, who represented the Hindu religion at the

time. He came to the United States um, for the World Religious Summit that was tied to the 1893 World's Fair, and Sarah

introduced Swami Vivekananda to Tesla, and the Swami, when he saw Tesla run electricity through himself, he said, "I

I saw the Hindu gods in Tesla's laboratory." And so, he asked Tesla, he said, "Look,

we've got these ancient Hindu texts. We don't think they're talking about anything religious. We think it's

technical. Would you look at them?" And Tesla did, and um, he then started writing in Sanskrit

himself. >> That inspired the engineering of the coil, didn't it?

>> It inspired some of the some of the ideas Tesla had afterwards, like prana,

how how they talk about the universe Tesla was able to break down into scientific terms. But what's interesting

about those texts is the CIA and the Nazis were also very interested in those texts independent of Tesla. And anything

that the Nazis, the CIA, and Tesla are looking at independently for ancient technology,

there may be something there. >> Right. >> So.

>> Do you believe time travel is a possibility? >> You know,

I think anything's possible. Um, if somebody's messing with the timeline, I wish they'd stop because

there are there have been times since 2020 where I thought I woke up in an alternate universe. You know, like, when

did this become a thing? So. >> [laughter] >> Right.

>> So, either somebody's messing with the timeline or we are living in a simulation and somebody's messing with

the matrix. >> Or you have a book that's coming out that people can uh

>> It's called Mark Twain and the War of Wizards and you can find me on Facebook and um just do a search for my name.

There's a Patrick Ryan, Patrick without the K, author and historian page. There's a Mark Twain and the War of

Wizards page and there's a Tesla statue page. >> Check out how awesome this is, guys. So,

Chris is uh helping us turn on the uh Tesla. It's a what what is it? >> It's a Tesla coil.

>> Yeah, a Tesla coil. >> Yeah. Um, so yeah, you she ready?

>> Yes. >> loud. Let's see if I can get >> Wow.

Wow. >> It's pretty loud. Want me to do it again?

>> Yes. Oh my gosh. I wonder if the original was loud like

that. >> Oh, yeah. I Like the original Tesla coil?

>> Yeah. >> Shocks you? Probably. I wish. I wish.

>> So, you just have a button? >> Yeah, it's a weird little button. It's like kind of

you hear that like kind of starting up. >> Mhm. >> [clears throat]

>> And then it gets hot for a little bit. >> Yeah. >> [cough]

>> I think it's out of juice. >> Oh. >> I have a very limited knowledge about

Tesla coils. Um, this big old cage is called a Faraday cage and I believe it's the grounding or it's connected to the

ground and so the electricity is able to disperse and as long as we're outside of it we're pretty safe.

>> When the guys that put it in, there's just not enough power for it to go anywhere else except right up there. So.

>> Oh, I see. The original went all right. >> The end goal was for it to be just going everywhere in all these rods.

>> Oh. >> And her plans are all like putting some

lights and stuff in it, but we haven't. >> Um do you know what it's generating? Is

it Are those light Is that lightning or is it electricity? >> Uh I think it's just really high-powered

static. It's static static. >> We are here at the Memorial Park and you will notice that this is the memorial

that they have for Nikola Tesla. Now, if Nikola Tesla is the genius that Donald Trump says he was, then why is this the

only representation that he gets at the very place where his laboratory was?