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.
He doesn’t need to attend to pass on the important stuff to Vlad. Tulsi does that for him now.
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
Of course, they contradict his delusional world view.
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”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
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 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.
Right before he got on stage and told everyone to inject bleach or shove a light bulb up your ass. That’s what he was able to understand when looking at this poster.
Is this real? He’s so fucking dumb
Far more likely is that he needs reading glasses but doesn’t like to be seen wearing them.
Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
Best news in a while.
