Scott Detrow

But I'm wondering over the last few days, is there one memory or one moment of time you spent with him that you're thinking a lot about?

Heather Zielinski, thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your memories of your friend Alex Preddy.

This episode was produced by Henry Larson, Vincent Accovino, and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Ted Meebay.

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I'm Scott Detrow.

President Trump told a gathering of world leaders that, for now at least, he won't take Greenland using military force.

That was in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum.

Trump later said, in fact, he had met with NATO's secretary general and has, quote, a framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland.

So a transatlantic crisis that threatened the very existence of NATO is perhaps on pause.

But the mere fact that the world was talking about the U.S.

coming to own Greenland in any capacity says a lot about the Trump administration one year in.

In his second stint in the presidency, Trump has repeatedly said and done things that were previously assumed to be unacceptable to voters.

In a surprise 80-minute appearance at the White House on Tuesday, Trump celebrated several of them.

There have been lawsuits, protests, a record-breaking government shutdown, resignations at top levels of government and the military.

But in general, the Trump administration continues undeterred on almost all of its agenda.

Consider this.

One year in, Trump's most notable move might not be in foreign policy or his federal prosecution of his political enemies or his deploying troops to cities amid protests.

It might be in how he has discouraged effective challenges to his power.