They now call it the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’” Trump said, crediting unnamed others with the phrase. Like so many of Trump’s talking points, this one has its roots in right-wing media. The New York Post, one of his favorite publications,

It was America's fifth president who formulated a foreign policy approach that has shaped American strategy for two centuries.

Swapping American dominance of the western hemisphere for Chinese dominance of East Asia would be the deal of the century. For China.

“After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region,” the document said.

The Trump Corollary asserts an American right to “restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere,” and to deny “non-Hemispheric competitors” — namely, China — “the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets.”

President Trump said that his decision to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stemmed from a two-century policy of U.S. leadership in the Western Hemisphere known as the “Monroe Doctrine.” “We have superseded it by a lot,

President Donald Trump has revived the Monroe Doctrine after former President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, John Kerry, declared the policy dead in 2013.

In remarks following the early morning capture of Venezuela's leader and his wife, Trump referred to a nearly 200-year-old foreign policy doctrine.

Venezuela holds 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the largest on Earth, accounting for 17% of global supply. This is heavy crude that U.S. refineries were literally built to process. For 25 years, that Venezuelan oil was locked behind a hostile regime, Soviet clients, then Chinese partners — always someone else’s leverage against us.