But to affirm himself as a savior, Trump began his second term as president by painting a grim picture ... as Trump promised a new era of “Manifest Destiny” to plant the American flag on ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Manifest Destiny was meant as this notion that America was destined to control all of this territory... we have to have all of this land because ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward ...