Orwell of course wrote "1984" as a cautionary tale and arrived at the title by transposing the date he wrote at, 1948, and basing his tale on what he saw happening across the Iron Curtain. His was a more sci-fi take on "Darkness at Noon" by Koestler, who tried to get into the mind of a true believer of the type put on trial during the Stalin purges of the latter 1930s. Another sci-fi take was more biological in nature: "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Both Orwell and Huxley owe a lot to Zamyatin, who penned "We" in the 1920s. Original language, Russian, but not published until 1924 in English in the States.

The "Time of Trump" is actually not up to these great works of fiction, as Trump is a product of a selfish, whiny, very UN-ideological frame of little thought. I think Jack Johnson has come closer to the current age with "My Mind is For Sale"

When Orwell wrote "1984" his concerns were far broader than mere Trump notions: His work was one of the most important in the 20th century and anticipated the use of technology as much as he was capable, but the scariest part of his book to me was the appendix in which he discussed the use and propagation of Newspeak to limit the possibility of forming certain thoughts. This was a direct attack on the miserable philosophy of Dialectical Materialism but went on to generalize the problems that it posed.

Thomas Friedman has observed that this is an age where the internet foists not Big Brother but many many Little Brothers with much the same result: a stultification of free thought.

Trump not only stultifies by his ability to monopolize mulit-media by trivialities and diversion from the relevant facts of life, but in drawing knee jerk responses from his would-be opponents which lowers the overall field of discourse.