When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

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,” vowing to land ...

However, the idea of Manifest Destiny existed well before it was put into writing with that explicit term. Simply put, it means that North America comes under the dominion of the United States.