Trump honors freakin wild life of Teddy Roosevelt, interacts with AI-powered ex-prez in North Dakota visit
MEDORA, ND — President Trump paid tribute to Theodore Roosevelt as a “great man” while cutting the ribbon to his new presidential library in the Dakota Badlands — after interacting with an artificial intelligence-powered hologram of his predecessor.“He never stopped, never quit and never surrendered in pursuit of his dreams,” Trump said of his fellow New Yorker, who was also born into wealth before dramatically recasting the Republican Party as a trust-busting reformer.“He had a freakin’ wild life,” Trump said in a largely improvised hour-long speech, as he recounted Roosevelt’s rise from a thin, asthma-plagued New Yorker into a “strong as an ox” outdoorsman, war hero and builder of the Panama Canal.Trump regaled a large audience with stories of Roosevelt’s life in the North Dakota town between 1884 and 1887, including chasing criminals 300 miles and hunting a grizzly bear, disproving a doctor from his youth who said he would have to isolate himself indoors.“He didn’t want to be quiet, he wanted to be great,” Trump proclaimed of Roosevelt, who led the nation from 1901-1909.“He summoned the will to transcend tragedy and triumph and defeat heartbreak with hard work,” Trump said after briefly riding a train toward the library and then spending about two hours looking at museum exhibits.The library used AI technology to develop a hologram of the former president, who spoke to Trump when he was touring the Oval Office exhibit.
The real and AI presidents discussed the Panama Canal, which Trump pines to return the passage to US control.Trump asked if the crucial trade corridor was Roosevelt’s proudest accomplishment, to which the long-dead politician gave a lengthy reply, rattling off other feats.Roosevelt made multiple trips to the American West during his life but described his years in Medora as transformative after his wife and mother both died of different causes within hours of each other on Valentine’s Day 1884, when Roosevel...