In pushing for Greenland and the Panama Canal, Donald Trump is restoring the Monroe Doctrine and the foreign policy vision of the founding fathers.

The shade of Theodore Roosevelt is grinning. President Donald Trump has been holding forth about matters of geopolitical import. Some of his remarks reflect his tongue-in-cheek style. Not for nothing has the president earned the title of galactic overlord among trolls.

Our 47th president takes the oath of office on Monday, and in his declarations about wanting to acquire Greenland and reacquire the Panama Canal we hear echoes of our fifth president, the Virginian James Monroe.

Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Panama Canal, convert Canada into the fifty-first state, and purchase Greenland may not be as ludicrous as they first seem. The proposals, albeit unachievable,

His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland ... at bay — a sort of throwback to the Monroe Doctrine, a policy first espoused by President James Monroe more than two centuries ago as a warning to European ...

US President-elect Donald trump has made several claims about the Panama Canal that deserve scrutiny. He talks about fraud, ridiculous tariffs, and that the interoceanic waterway is in the hands of the Chinese.

The tabloid’s Wednesday front page showed Donald Trump pointing at a map of the western hemisphere with Canada as the “51st state”, the Gulf of Mexico renamed “Gulf of America”, the Panama Canal reborn as “Pana-Maga” and Greenland as “Our Land”.

Recovering the Panama Canal, on the other hand, involves stepping into the hornet’s nest of Latin America’s nationalistic politics that are increasingly influenced by China, Russia, and Iran. Successive Democrat administrations have allowed America’s main adversaries to develop a growing intelligence,

Trump’s threats against Panama, Canada and Greenland, albeit unachievable, lay the groundwork for a more “rational” strategy of targeting China and singling out real adversaries such as Cuba and Venezuela.

In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reached back into history to signal how he will implement his promise to control our nation’s borders and to expand those borders by acquiring new territory.

Mr. Trump is tapping into this social and intellectual history, promising to “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars” — even “to Mars.” But he does so in that witchy style he has perfected, which makes conventional ideas sound outlandish.

However, some of the ties her family made during Eliza’s childhood, when James Monroe served with the U.S. diplomatic corps in Europe, may account for why she was later labeled as “the most ...