Trump calls Venezuela operation the 'Donroe Doctrine' and invokes Monroe doctrine

Time reports that after a U.S. operation that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump announced a new label for his foreign policy approach, calling it the "Donroe Doctrine" and casting the action as a revival of the Monroe Doctrine while speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump said Venezuela had hosted "foreign adversaries in our region" and acquired "menacing offensive weapons that could threaten U.S. interests and lives," and he framed those actions as violations of principles going "all the way back" to the Monroe Doctrine. The State Department echoed that message on X, writing, "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened." The administration has earlier invoked a self-styled "Trump Corollary" and outlined a related approach in its national security strategy.

The Monroe Doctrine was first articulated in 1823 to oppose European interference in the Western Hemisphere and has been cited by presidents since, including Theodore Roosevelt, whose 1904 corollary asserted a U.S. right to exercise "international police power." The doctrine has underpinned U.S.

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Politics, Donald Trump, Monroe Doctrine, Donroe Doctrine, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela