About this time last year, the normally wooden United Nations was treated to a spectacle the likes of which the organization hadn’t seen since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez likened former President George W. Bush to Satan. The man who captured all of the attention was none other than President Trump, who used his time at the lectern to promote American nationalism, threaten North Korea’s Kim Jong Un with total annihilation, and insult Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro for taking an otherwise prosperous nation in the Western Hemisphere and turning it into a garbage heap of poverty, starvation, corruption, and incompetence.

Trump’s first address at the U.N. General Assembly was quintessential Donald Trump: designed to dominate the news cycle and shock people out of complacency. Military historian and Slate columnist Fred Kaplan called it the “most hostile, dangerous and intellectually confused” speech an American president ever delivered to an international audience. As Trump was speaking, John Kelly – then only a month into his new job as White House chief of staff – was watching from the bleachers, head-in-hand, looking like he was undergoing an out-of-body experience.