Oh, The Main Gossip!

Oh, honey, have you heard the latest kerfuffle? President Trump, bless his heart, has gone and done it again! He held this big press conference, darling, all about a raid in Venezuela.

They apparently swooped right in and captured that Nicolás Maduro and his wife! Can you imagine the drama? Right there in Caracas, overnight!

But that's not even the juiciest bit, no sirree. He's bringing back this old, old foreign policy, the Monroe Doctrine, and get this: he's calling it the "Donroe Doctrine" now! Heavens to Betsy, a man naming a doctrine after himself!

Grandma’s Sarcastic Reactions (Oh, The Audacity!)

Well, I never! Back in my day, we just stuck with what President Monroe himself named things. But I suppose everything needs a modern twist, doesn't it?

And imagine, darling, just a few years ago, Secretary John Kerry, under President Obama, said that

Over! And now here we are, like a cat with nine lives, it's back and renamed!

Honestly, it’s enough to make a girl spill her tea! Changing history like it's a pair of old shoes! What's next, the "Trump Canal"? (I’m shaking my head so hard right now…)

Clarifying What Actually Happened (Before the Renaming!)

Now, let me tell you, sweetie, what that Monroe Doctrine actually was, before it became the 'Donroe' thingamajig. It was way back in 1823, from President James Monroe himself.

Basically, it was a polite way of telling those Europeans to keep their paws off the Americas. No new colonies, no expanding influence! The U.S. thought of South and Central America as its own "backyard," you see.

Then, much later, President Theodore Roosevelt, that fiery one, added his own little "Corollary" in 1904. He said America had the right to be the "international police power" if there was "wrongdoing" down there. Goodness gracious! That led to quite a few interventions, like in Cuba and Nicaragua!

President Trump, now, he's saying this Venezuela operation was needed because they were "hosting foreign adversaries" and "acquiring offensive weapons." Oh, and apparently, they were seizing and selling American oil assets! He said all this "grossly violated" core American foreign policy.

Why Grandma "Just Can’t Even" Today

Honestly, between renaming old doctrines and sending folks to Venezuela, I just can't keep up! It's all so dramatic, isn't it?

Back in my day, news came on the radio once a day, and it wasn't all this hullabaloo. We just worried about whether the pie crust would rise!

But here we are, with

as President Trump put it. Well, I certainly hope not, dear, but it sounds like quite the undertaking!

Sometimes, I just want to sit down with a nice cup of Earl Grey and forget all these political goings-on. But then, who would tell you all the juicy bits? (Oh, sweetie, the things they do!)