Nothing bad can happen.
It can only good happen.
It's been exactly one year
since Donald Trump began his second term as president of these United States and trying to recount the last 12 months is perhaps too much.
Here's the last 12 hours.
Trump's been screenshotting and sharing DMs sent to him by France's President Emmanuel Macron and Marc Ruta,
the head of NATO.
They're trying to talk Trump off his plan to acquire Greenland,
something that wasn't even mentioned in his inaugural address a year ago.
What was immigration, crime, oil, manufacturing?
I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.
See, we will drill.
Baby drill.
Absent from that speech was Project 2025,
this brick of policy proposals from the Conservative Heritage Foundation that Trump had distanced himself from.
But one year in, the president has quietly met many of Project 2025's objectives.
That's coming up on Today Explained.
This is Today Explained.
My name is David Graham, and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Project,