Trump and top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, characterized Saturday’s assault on Venezuela and abduction of the country’s president as a warning shot in the direction of Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American nations.
During a Saturday press conference, Trump openly invoked the Monroe Doctrine — an assertion of U.S. dominance of the Western Hemisphere — and said his campaign of aggression against Venezuela represented the “Donroe Doctrine” in action.
In his unwieldy remarks, Trump called out Colombian President Gustavo Petro by name, accusing him without evidence of “making cocaine and sending it to the United States.”
This ignorant dipshit has no idea what the Monroe Doctrine is, or even who Monroe was. If you had asked him yesterday who James Monroe was, he wouldn’t have had a clue. Someone whispered in his ear that it means he can have all of the Western Hemisphere, and all its oil, so now he’s all for it.
Just because these people twist something into something it’s not, doesn’t mean we have to accept it.