Trump Busted Swiping Venezuela Plan’s Catchy Name

Joe Readle/Getty Images It is certainly a catchy name for invading a country and seizing its leader—and like all Donald Trump tropes, it is completely self-centered. Following Saturday’s dramatic U.S. military operation in Venezuela, Trump, 79, quickly renamed a two-century-old policy —after himself, dubbing it the “Donroe Doctrine” to describe his approach to foreign policy and U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere. But the name, widely attributed to the president, was in fact first coined by the New York Post last year, appearing on the cover of the Trump-endorsing newspaper in June. Among those pointing out the fact that Trump’s favorite paper was first with the pun were CNN’s Brian Stelter. Read more at The Daily Beast.