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“They now call it the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’” President Trump told reporters after American commandos captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela this month.
He seemed pleased that his foreign policy strategy could be distilled into a quippy two-word phrase riffing on the 19th century Western Hemisphere-focused Monroe Doctrine.
And whom to thank for that line? The New York Post, an influential part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire, which coined the portmanteau in a front-page headline.
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