US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. [AFP]

Donald Trump imagines himself to be a 21st-century Teddy Roosevelt, craving for power and using the presidency as ‘bully pulpit’ to bully his desires into reality. Each proclaimed a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to empower them to do as they wanted.

Roosevelt, an instigator of the Spanish-American War that practically deprived Spain of its remaining colonies in the Western Hemisphere, offered to collect debts for the Europeans in the Caribbean.

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Published Date: 2026-01-11 00:00:00
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By Macharia Munene
Source: The Standard
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