During a visit to Medora, North Dakota, to open a new library and museum honoring President Theodore Roosevelt, Donald Trump conversed with a digitally animated version of his predecessor and later recounted asking the simulation about the Panama Canal. Trump remarked that he queried the avatar on whether the canal was Roosevelt's greatest achievement and on the fact that, in Trump's telling, Democrats later surrendered control of the waterway to Panama for a single dollar. The event, part of America250 celebrations ahead of the nation's semiquincentennial, featured a train ride, horseback riders dressed as Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and an hour-long speech. Trump, who has increasingly focused on his historical legacy, praised Roosevelt but said little about the former president's environmental record.