Trump Has Skipped Almost All of His Intelligence Briefings

[dalton99a]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-briefing-frequency-00338946

Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office
The scarcity of the President’s Daily Briefings comes as he pursues high-stakes diplomacy with America’s friends and foes.
By Amy Mackinnon
05/09/2025 06:00 PM EDT

Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief.

That’s a significant drop compared with Trump’s first term in office, according to a POLITICO analysis of his public schedule.

In much of his first term, Trump met with intel officials twice a week for the briefing, which provides the intelligence community’s summary of the most pressing national security challenges facing the nation.

The low number of briefings this time around is troubling to many in and around the intelligence community, who were already concerned about Trump’s act-first-evaluate-after approach to governing.

“It’s sadly clear that President Trump doesn’t value the expertise of and dangerous work performed by our intelligence professionals each and every day, and unfortunately, it leaves the American people increasingly vulnerable to threats we ought to see coming,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement to POLITICO.

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[Ocelot II]

1. Maybe it's better that he doesn't know that stuff...

[Takket]

2. "Who is running the country"?

Is the question democrats should be asking in the media.

[BOSSHOG]

3. He's been avoiding intelligence for damn near 80 years

[RandomNumbers]

4. The jokes write themselves

(although it is not a joke that we are living through this)

[Doodley]

5. Proving that you don't need much intelligence when you think you already know everything.

[imanamerican63]

6. But he knows more than......

He’d fall asleep away!

[Diamond_Dog]

7. He delegates most of his duties to his most evil acolytes anyway.

Since he finds things like that boring.

[Turbineguy]

8. Attending intel briefings would make him a better president

and give people the wrong idea.

[BoRaGard]

9. "Intelligence is evil." - G.O.P.

[republianmushroom]

10. Could the above be the reason for this below.

The many big things Trump ‘didn’t know’ about

Repeatedly in his second term, Trump has pleaded ignorance about major events and suggested he’s not involved in major decisions. But less than four months after taking over from Biden, it’s Trump who, in his own telling, is often unaware of major events surrounding him and directly involving his administration.

Article and excerpt from: The Washington Post, The many big things Trump ‘didn’t know’ about, Analysis by Aaron Blake,
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/10/trump-second-term-unaware/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F4280721%2F681f770afd30690aa006ff54%2F5ea080d8ae7e8a0ab1410efe%2F24%2F46%2F681f770afd30690aa006ff54

PAYWALL

[GulfofMexico]

11. If the briefings included his tee times and the color of his golf cart, maybe he'd show

Trump lacks the ability to understand anything those briefings would offer, so why waste the time when you could be riding around on a golf cart?