Summary
Donald Trump has attended only 12 intelligence briefings in his first 100+ days of his second term, a steep decline from his already infrequent briefing schedule during his first presidency, POLITICO reports.
He began 2025 with just two in-person updates monthly, shifting to weekly in April.
Critics, including Sen. Mark Warner, say Trump’s disengagement endangers national security, as he also avoids reading detailed briefing materials.
His national security team is in turmoil, and recent cuts to CIA DEI programs have sparked fears of institutional regression and increased vulnerability to global threats.
It’s time for Canada to detach from NORAD, and get our own nukes.
They don’t even have to be long range ICBMs.
I don’t trust these fuckers any more.
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
Well, “intelligence” hadn’t featured so far, so this shouldn’t be a surprise…
“I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing them, Bob.”
Did you get the memo?
Well, he’s not an intelligent person, so…
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
I love this man('s incompetence as the leader of American imperialism).
Sure, but there’s also the intelligence concerning Russian and Chinese aggression. Not that that would matter to him, now that he’s making the US an aggressor too.
now that he’s making the US an aggressor too.
… Now? The US has been an aggressor for a good eighty years at this point. The only thing Trump is doing different is that he’s pissing off white people.
He’s actively being aggressive to allies, now. Big(ger) difference. Before there may have been overt trade negotiation in favor of the US, now there’s active trade aggression and talks of possible military force if needed.
He’s actively being aggressive to allies, now. Big(ger) difference.
Who almost all happen to be white people. My point is that to the vast majority of the planet, Trump’s bullying is how America always acts. Trump is just bringing that to the people who thought they’d always be on the evil empire’s good side, and their response to that is to hypocritically cry about the monster they helped create. When you look at the wider world, the US is as evil and domineering as it has always been.
If he were to attend, wouldn’t it be an “Intelligence + 1 guest” briefing?
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.
Best news in a while.
Unironically probably for the best, anything top secret he would learn in those meetings would be in the hands of his autocratic handlers before the meeting was concluded.
Honestly, at this point I’d be willing to bet that those officials who actually still give half a shit about national security don’t give Trump anything that isn’t essentially public information already. Or at the very least, largely harmless if it does become public. It’s not like Trump would know or care about the difference.
Remember that multiple sources have said that during his first term, the Presidential Daily Briefings were largely little more than fluff pieces with pretty pictures, easy to understand words, and random references to him just to keep his attention, much like trying to keep a 3 year old occupied with a coloring book and a handful of crayons.
He’s too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn’t care even if he could.
That’s optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.
Not sure, he is probably getting his intelligence from Russia at this point
We’ve known for a while that he only cares if they’re about him. The CIA is running out of ideas to shoehorn his name into the text.
Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.
