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.