Trump baffles with bizarre claim he had a conversation with Teddy Roosevelt

President Donald Trump stunned the internet on Wednesday when he talked about how he chatted with long-dead former President Teddy Roosevelt.

Trump was in Medora, North Dakota, to visit the newly built Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in the Badlands before it opens on July 4. He spoke to a crowd about how he talked to the nation's 26th president, who died in 1919.

"I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. I asked how do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $1," Trump said.

His comments raised eyebrows among social media users.

"If your 80yr old parent was talking about having conversations with someone who died ~27 years before they were even born, you'd be getting power-of-attorney in place," economist Sky Marchini wrote on X.

"Trump thinks he's real," the account Molly Ploofkins, a progressive political commentator, wrote on X.

"Trump is having conversations with an AI Teddy Roosevelt. Wtf is happening here?" Far-right conspiracy theorist and Rumble show host Stew Peters wrote on X.

"Headline: Elderly man with dementia talks to ghost of Teddy Roosevelt about the rising costs of canals," liberal political commentator Chris Robinson wrote on X.

"Is Theodore in the room with us now Mr Trump?" English graphic satirist Tarquin Helmet wrote on X.