Noel King

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?

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.

People may remember 2024, 7,000 years ago, President Trump, at the time, a candidate, says, I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

He's been in office for a year.

Did his administration actually disavow Project 2025?

Even though he called you a moron and dumber than a sack of bricks?

What was it laying out?

Remind us what it was.

When we covered Project 2025 before the election, I remember thinking, you know, there's a lot here and it would take a lot to get all of this done.

And Trump is saying he doesn't really want to do it.

Maybe everybody is over worrying.

And then sometime in the last 12 months, things started to come into clearer focus.

When would you say that it became clear that like, OK, they are actually doing a Project 2025 here?

All right, so you start seeing it on day one, and then we get 12 months.

Give me the top lines of what you've seen get done.

This is 900 pages of policy priorities.

Group them for me and tell me how far along they are.