The New Republic72%
People Think Trump Hallucinated Teddy Roosevelt. The Truth Is Weirder. 53%
By Edith Olmsted82%
7/1/2026, 9:26:35 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 39.9% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 867 faulty-reasoning hits from 318 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.8% and a BS Rank of 53% (10,345 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 52.70% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump shocked Americans Wednesday when he claimed to have spoken to former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota, Trump announced to the crowd that he’d just spoken with the twenty-sixth president, who died more than 100 years ago.
“I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt,” Trump said.
“I said, ‘What did you think about the Panama Canal?
Do you consider that your greatest achievement?
How do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $1?’”
Despite what many people on the internet seemed to think, the 80-year-old president was not publicly sundowning.
He was referring to an interaction he’d just had with an eerie, lifelike AI simulation of Roosevelt.
A video posted by Special Assistant Margo Martin showed Trump listening intently as the fake Roosevelt reminded Trump that “the nation comes first.”
“Well, I appreciate those words, those words are fantastic,” Trump said.
“I just want to say it was an honor to be with you today, we are taking a little bit of a tour of some of the fantastic things you’ve done.”
There’s something deeply sad about watching the forty-seventh president speak to a computer-generated version of the twenty-sixth.
It has a similar effect to watching your elderly grandfather chat with a young, hot single on an online forum: It’s not real, grandpa.
Now, go back to bed.
Trump’s fascination with AI presidents is nothing new.
The president’s lackluster Great American State Fair features its own AI George Washington to chat with attendees—what few of them there are.
Trump has previously used his praise for Roosevelt to push his agenda to “take back” the Panama Canal—which, along with the threatened annexations of Greenland and Canada, are at the heart of his disastrous “Donroe Doctrine.”
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