Soon after the 2024 election and months before he took office, the foreign policy priorities of President Donald Trump‘s second term began to take shape.

Noting Trump’s irredentist designs on reclaiming the Panama Canal, his revanchist lust for wresting Greenland away from Denmark, and his fantasies about making Canada the 51st state, a wag at the New York Post dubbed Trump’s dreams of the United States dominating the Western Hemisphere “The ‘Donroe Doctrine,” a portmanteau giving a nod to former President James Monroe.