Donroe Doctrine

• Don-roe Doctrine

Blend of Don +‎ Monroe Doctrine, in reference to Donald ("Don") Trump. Named after U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and James Monroe.

the Donroe Doctrine

1. (US politics, informal) The Monroe Doctrine as implemented by president Donald Trump.
   • [2025 January 10, Alex Rogers, Felicia Schwartz, Lucy Fisher, Henry Foy, “The art of dealing with Donald Trump”, in ft.com‎^[1], Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 January 2025:

     Trump has mused about Canada becoming the 51st state of the US and also announced that the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the “Gulf of America”. ¶ The New York Post dubbed his bombastic assertions the “Donroe Doctrine” — after the 19th-century project to assert US control over the western hemisphere named after President James Monroe.]

   • [2025 November 17, Jack Nicas, “The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:

     Many observers have begun calling the new U.S. approach “the Donroe Doctrine” — a term that appeared on a January cover of The New York Post — a Trumpian twist on a 19th-century idea.]

   • 2025 December 10, “Democrats blame Donald Trump after giving Joe Biden a pass on the economy”, in The Five, spoken by Dana Perino, via Fox news:

     Right. And so now he's got the region on it on its toes. And also, if you think about what he's talking about, the Donroe Doctrine going back using the Donroe Doctrine. And I've – I actually have always believed that America has ignored our own hemisphere for too long.

   • [2026 January 4, Michael Scherer, “Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s”, in The Atlantic‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 January 2026:

     Trump has said he believes that the United States needs to maintain control over the Western Hemisphere, invoking his own version of the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which rejected European colonialism in the hemisphere. He calls his approach the “Donroe Doctrine.”]

   • 2026 January 14, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Brian O’Keefe, Ian Mount, Grady McGregor, “Banks Ready Battle Plans to Save Their Credit Card Businesses”, in The New York Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 14 January 2026:

     With Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” for the Americas in effect, that raises an important question: Does the White House have enough leverage to force the Chinese to give ground?

• While coined in 2025, the term was applied by Trump himself to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a January 2026 raid by the United States, and then widely quoted in the press.

• Gulf of America