Using lines from a digital archive built with Roosevelt's actual letters and speeches, the AI-powered hologram gave Trump what initially seemed like a pep talk, appearing to sympathize with him as he noted that "a president faces storms most people never see." (snip)

The stilted conversation saw the president ask if the Panama Canal was Roosevelt's "greatest achievement."

"Well, well, well. Right then, yes. 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," the presidential simulation told Trump, who has been engaged in several vanity projects in and around the capital.

"The 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 by the lives improved, parks set aside, food and drugs made safe, the Square Deal given to all—not just to a few," it told Trump, who has made sweeping budget cuts to the National Park Service.

“Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. In private life there are few things more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples.