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The president plans to fly to rural North Dakota to open Roosevelt\u2019s library as aides tout comparisons between the two.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump stands in front of a painting of President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House in February. (Craig Hudson\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

BISMARCK, North Dakota \u2014 President Donald Trump isn\u2019t exactly the outdoorsman and conservationist that was Theodore Roosevelt, a hunting, wilderness-loving president who preserved hundreds of millions of acres of public land and, in his final years, led a jungle expedition to the Amazon.<\/p>\n

Yet the White House wants Americans to know that the two New York natives \u2014 one the leader of the Rough Riders volunteer cavalry, the other who spent most of his adult life seated behind desks and in limousines \u2014 have plenty in common.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to fly to Bismarck and from there travel to remote Medora, North Dakota, to open Roosevelt\u2019s presidential library, a project that has been in the works for years at the site of the national park bearing the 26th president\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parallels between Theodore Roosevelt and President Trump just keep adding up and up and up,\u201d Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, said on Fox News Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cT.R. was the president at the 125th, President Trump at the 250th \u2014 both of them transformative people who really shaped not just the U.S., but shaped the world and the world order,\u201d Burgum said.<\/p>\n

The secretary, a longtime Teddy Roosevelt aficionado who as governor helped spearhead planning and fundraising for the library, has made similar comparisons between Trump and Roosevelt for months. In January he said Trump\u2019s Venezuela strikes \u201ccan only be compared to Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal 125 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roosevelt saw to the building of the Panama Canal and sent military vessels to Panama City to guarantee Panama\u2019s independence as it seceded from Colombia.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt, the youngest man to assume the presidency, and Trump, the oldest, share certain personal qualities, as well. Roosevelt was blustery, egocentric and a rambunctious violator of the existing norms that limited presidential power. Roosevelt\u2019s daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, famously said of her father: \u201cHe wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral and the baby at every christening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both men, too, sought to project overt masculinity from the White House in ways that went beyond typical presidential business. Both, for example, hosted organized fights<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n

Unlike Trump at the UFC match he held on his 80th birthday, however, Roosevelt took part in the fighting and was partially blinded as a result.<\/p>\n

But while Roosevelt also \u201cthrew America\u2019s weight around in the Caribbean,\u201d the differences between him and Trump are larger, said Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at every other aspect of Roosevelt\u2019s career, the two men would hardly have been simpatico,\u201d Naftali said, contrasting Roosevelt\u2019s establishment of federal regulation of food and drugs against the current administration\u2019s efforts to unwind the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n

He also noted that when Roosevelt negotiated peace between Russia and Japan \u2014 winning a Nobel Prize in the process \u2014 he did so without asking for mineral rights or pieces of territory, a tactic that Trump has repeatedly employed when involved in foreign conflicts.<\/p>

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Trump and White House officials, however, have repeatedly pointed to Roosevelt as a model for some of his policies at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt, for instance, intervened<\/a> in college football after a series of brutal, sometimes fatal, injuries in the early 20th century. National leaders credited him for helping bring rule changes that improved the sport\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n

Trump has cited Roosevelt\u2019s actions as he issued<\/a> several executive orders seeking to reverse changes in college sports that he has described as threats to the games, notably the ability for players to be paid as they repeatedly transfer schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch like President Roosevelt saved American football,\u201d White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement earlier this year, \u201cPresident Trump is committed to saving college sports from the threats they face today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has long held Roosevelt in high esteem, publicly praising his investments in national parks, his projection of American military power around the globe and his experience leading the \u201cRough Riders,\u201d a voluntary cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheodore Roosevelt exemplified the unbridled confidence of our national culture and identity. He saw the towering grandeur of America\u2019s mission in the world and he pursued it with overwhelming energy and zeal,\u201d Trump said during remarks at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020 \u2014 the last time the memorial hosted the president for a fireworks show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like Trump, Roosevelt was shot during his third bid for the presidency, which came after exiting the White House. Roosevelt, too, projected defiance, insisting on giving his speech as planned before seeking medical treatment.<\/p>\n

The new library that Trump will help dedicate is on the site of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the Badlands, where Roosevelt first visited to hunt bison in 1883, and later returned to grieve the death of his wife and daughter and live as a rancher in his 20s.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt became concerned about conservation and after becoming president in 1901, went on to establish 230 million acres of public land, according to the National Park Service. He created the United States Forest Service and what are known today as federal wildlife refuges.<\/p>\n

After camping in Yosemite National Park, Roosevelt wrote, \u201cIt was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man.\u201d When Congress opposed his attempt to create a national park at the Grand Canyon, Roosevelt used executive power to protect it as a national monument.<\/p>\n

By contrast, conservation advocates have slammed Trump\u2019s administration for removing protections from tens of millions of acres of public lands and opening some up for development, timber harvesting and mining.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe irony of this celebration could not be sharper,\u201d said Aaron Weiss, executive director of the Center for Western for Priorities. \u201cDonald Trump and Doug Burgum are going to cut the ribbon on a library honoring America\u2019s first true conservation president.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Trump administration\u2019s record, \u201creads like a checklist assault on everything that Teddy Roosevelt has built,\u201d he said.<\/p>

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