Fresh off attacking Venezuela and capturing its president, Donald Trump is returning to his true passion: slapping his name on things. As he threatens to continue wielding US military might abroad, Josh Keating reports, Trump is also rebranding the Monroe Doctrine, a 200-year-old foreign policy, as the “Donroe Doctrine.” 

Josh explains the long history of US meddling in South America, how Trump’s new approach fits in, and what it tells us about what could come next as Trump eyes Colombia, Cuba, and even Mexico.

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