Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings
Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings
The president’s lax approach to national security has some intelligence officials alarmed.
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.
i bet he does this with his lips everytime hes in a briefing, moving his fingers quickly up and down on a duck lips.
Yeah, and it shows.
I imagine that Trump feels like he doesn't need them. He's just going to wing it.
We have no intelligence!
He doesn't need to attend to pass on the important stuff to Vlad. Tulsi does that for him now.
Tulski*
Call her by her birth name.
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
Trump during intelligence briefing:
"I'll close my eyes a bit while you are talking, so I can better concentrate on what you are saying, carry on...""rrrrr rrrr rrrrr"
Wait, I got one!
Let's see... Trump. Intelligence. Trump lacking intelligence...
Nah, I got nothing.
Of course, they contradict his delusional world view.
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.
Which really runs against the "Everything Trump does is actually Russia!" line that gets posted around here incessantly. There's nothing Putin would want more than to have access to those briefings, but his useful idiot is too much of an idiot to be useful here. Trump is on Putin's side, sure, but most of what he does, especially in this term, is the result of home-grown American authoritarianism, not orders from Russia.
Why would Putin need Trump to pass that sort of thing along anymore? That's literally Tulsi Gabbard's job, passing along info the Putin.
She was literally a known Russian spy even before the got confirmed.
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 was like this his first term too.
That's optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.
He's too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn't care even if he could.
Not sure, he is probably getting his intelligence from Russia at this point
his krasnov: briefing for the week, is ignore all other intelligence briefing from the us, and allies, and also shout "my putins talking points" once a while to make noise and distract the news.
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.
If he were to attend, wouldn't it be an "Intelligence + 1 guest" briefing?
"I wouldn't say I've been missing them, Bob."
Did you get the memo?
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
He can’t read.
The sad part is that this likely isn’t even a meme. As time has progressed, there has been more and more evidence pointing to exactly this. He may be able to read on a basic first or second grade “sounding big words out” level, but there is a lot of evidence that he can’t actually read proficiently.
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.
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
Best news in a while.
Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.
Well, he's not an intelligent person, so...
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.
