Tesla’s Papers and the Trump Connection

Tesla’s Papers and the Trump Connection

So, here’s a juicy little piece of history: when Nikola Tesla died in 1943, his stuff—tons of notes, blueprints, and wild ideas—didn’t just sit around. The U.S. government swooped in fast, grabbed it all, and sent his technical documents to an expert to check out. That expert? Dr. John G. Trump, a big-shot professor at MIT (that’s a super smart science school) and, fun fact, the uncle of future President Donald Trump. Dr. Trump wasn’t just some random guy—he was also part of the National Defense Research Committee, a group helping the military with science stuff during World War II. His job was to figure out if Tesla’s papers had anything useful, like secret weapons or game-changing tech.

Dr. Trump looked through it all and said, “Nah, nothing valuable here.” Officially, he called Tesla’s ideas “speculative”—fancy talk for “cool but not practical.” He didn’t see any working plans for a death ray or wireless energy system, just a lot of big dreams without the details to make them real. The government filed that report, and that’s where the story’s supposed to end. But… is that all there was to it? The snippet cuts off with “That wasn’t,” hinting maybe there’s more—like someone didn’t buy Trump’s take or thought he missed something huge.