Why Trump resurrected the Monroe Doctrine

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  NPR.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this week what looked like a Photoshopped Wikipedia page.

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  This described him as the acting president of Venezuela.

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  This was maybe an unsurprising post from a president who not just loves being online,

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  but is also throwing American muscle around.

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  The administration's actions are a deliberate callback to a foreign policy from 200 years ago.

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  It's called the Monroe Doctrine.

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  The Monroe Doctrine is about which world powers get to exert influence in the Western Hemisphere.

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  Different presidents have put their own spin on it, and now it's Trump's turn.

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  It's being called the Don Rowe Doctrine.

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  Today on the show,

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  we look at how the Trump administration is putting the Don Rowe Doctrine into practice,

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  especially when it comes to the president's desire for oil.

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  You know, when you add the word doctrine to anything, it sounds very serious and official.

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  Oh, for sure.

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  A doctrine is like an official statement of the policy or principles.

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  The origins of the Monroe Doctrine, though, were actually kind of casual.

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