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Trump predicted in 1997 scifi novel Titan by Stephen Baxter
“Maclachlan was inaugurated in 2008 after his wafer-thin win in the 2008 election. Maclachlan called it a ‘liberation of the capital’.
Armed militia bands came in from Idaho and Arizona and Oklahoma and Montana, to fire off black–powder salutes to the nationalist-populist who promised to repeal all gun laws.
...
Army engineers – set in place during the handover from the last administration – started to build a wall, two thousand miles of it, along the Mexican border, to exclude illegal immigration. While it was being built, troops brought home from peace-keeping abroad were operating a shoot-to-kill policy.
...
He had raised tariffs – ten percent against Japan, fifty percent agains the Chinese – and world trade collapsed. The Chinese, particularly, screamed. And so Maclachlan sent the Seventh Fleet to a new station off the coast of Taiwan.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/more-prescience/
Armed militia bands came in from Idaho and Arizona and Oklahoma and Montana, to fire off black–powder salutes to the nationalist-populist who promised to repeal all gun laws.
...
Army engineers – set in place during the handover from the last administration – started to build a wall, two thousand miles of it, along the Mexican border, to exclude illegal immigration. While it was being built, troops brought home from peace-keeping abroad were operating a shoot-to-kill policy.
...
He had raised tariffs – ten percent against Japan, fifty percent agains the Chinese – and world trade collapsed. The Chinese, particularly, screamed. And so Maclachlan sent the Seventh Fleet to a new station off the coast of Taiwan.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/more-prescience/
There's more - too much to fit into 4 paragraphs. Baxter just went 8 years too early.