President Trump Chats With AI Teddy Roosevelt About the Panama Canal

Artificial Intelligence President Trump Chats With AI Teddy Roosevelt About the Panama Canal Trump told a crowd Wednesday about having a conversation with the late president. 1, 2026, pm ET Reading time 4 minutes The new Theodore Roosevelt AI display at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. © LemonSlice Read Later Read Later Comments (10) President Donald Trump visited the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, on Wednesday to cut the ribbon for its grand opening and deliver a characteristically weird speech. Trump also had the chance to chat with an AI version of Teddy Roosevelt, part of a new exhibit built . The AI exhibit is called Talk With TR, where visitors can walk up to a control panel and swipe their “compass,” a customized RFID bracelet that tells the museum display their name and age. Visitors are then prompted to press a button to talk with the virtual president. Trump asked the AI about the Panama Canal, according to videos posted online, a project started 1903 and completed in 1914. “Do you consider the Panama Canal your greatest achievement?” Trump asked. “Well, right then, yes,” the AI responded. “The canal stands as one of my proudest battles, no question. But greatness is a strange thing. It isn’t always the biggest or boldest job that matters most. Panama Canal showed what America could achieve if we held steady and acted fast when the world dragged its feet.” “That said, I measure my greatest work . And the LLM used for the project was trained on speeches, letters, and books from the 26th president. The AI voice of Teddy refers to visitors , and the age is helpful in tailoring the conversation to kids. “Everything that TR says is designed to, like, be at a PG-13 level, but there’s just the additional kid mode that’s in place as well,” said Colucci. “You have kids asking TR about his favorite food and his favorite color, which is a lot of fun to listen in on. It’s just like it’s very, very cool to see just every conversation is unique based on whatever the person is interested in, whatever the visitor wants to talk about,” said Colucci. Trump was clearly proud of his conversation, telling the crowd in a speech after his interaction, “I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. I said, ‘What do you think about the Panama Canal?