{"id":66398,"date":"2026-02-15T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/trump-gets-the-monroe-doctrine-wrong-he-should-take-a-page-from-bad-bunny-ted-widmer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:13:00","slug":"trump-gets-the-monroe-doctrine-wrong-he-should-take-a-page-from-bad-bunny-ted-widmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/trump-gets-the-monroe-doctrine-wrong-he-should-take-a-page-from-bad-bunny-ted-widmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas<\/p>\n<p>Throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word \u201cAmerica\u201d kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities. \u201cTogether we are all America,\u201d his football read, and he obviously meant it, in the largest, most hemispheric sense. Near the end, after shouting \u201cGod bless America\u201d (his only words in English), Bad Bunny ran through a long list of countries in the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>That inclusiveness enraged Donald Trump, who erupted on social media, and tried to take the word back, declaring the half-time show \u201can affront to the greatness of America\u201d. By which, of course, he meant the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/15\/trump-bad-bunny-monroe-doctrine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas Throughout Bad Bunny\u2019s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word \u201cAmerica\u201d kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities. \u201cTogether we are all America,\u201d his &#8230; <a title=\"Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/trump-gets-the-monroe-doctrine-wrong-he-should-take-a-page-from-bad-bunny-ted-widmer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}