Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings
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.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-skipped-out-on-all-but-12-of-his-daily-intelligence-briefings/Open linkView original on lemmy.world469
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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.
He's too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn't care even if he could.
he was like this his first term too.
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.
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.
Would you trust Trump to accuratly repeat what he heard?
Wait, I got one!
Let's see... Trump. Intelligence. Trump lacking intelligence...
Nah, I got nothing.
"I wouldn't say I've been missing them, Bob."
Did you get the memo?
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
yea he is known to have very bad eyesight, he has reading glasses, but he never wears them, because obvious toxic masculinity.
Far more likely is that he needs reading glasses but doesn't like to be seen wearing them.
If he were to attend, wouldn't it be an "Intelligence + 1 guest" briefing?
Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
Tulski*
Call her by her birth name.
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
Well, "intelligence" hadn't featured so far, so this shouldn't be a surprise...
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
We have no intelligence!
Yeah, and it shows.
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.
This is not a good idea for Canada. Canada is not able to handle logistics, nor the cost of running Northern defense.
Solidify national security, solidify international agreements, then re-evaluate insider divorce.
We have an unstable ex living below us. If Canada were to be invaded, the US wouldn't come to our aid. They would drag their feet and demand 75% of our natural resources before considering coming to the table. And since Trump can't keep a promise or a trade deal, he can not be trusted to flip on a deal any moment. The USA is NOT our friend.
We need nukes.
We need them yesterday.
We need to fortify the southern border.
We need a larger military budget.
Trump is already talking about making Canada part of the USA. We're living next to a serious threat right now. The USA is a failing country slipping into an authoritative regime. We need to deal with it RIGHT NOW.
Everything you said in a correct, but it will take time.
Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.
Well, he's not an intelligent person, so...
Or… they’re just saying, “don’t worry Mr. President. We’re doing all the work… you just keep foaming those MAGA’s mouths; and we’ll win.
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.
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"
I imagine that Trump feels like he doesn't need them. He's just going to wing it.
I love this man('s incompetence as the leader of American imperialism).
... 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.
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.
Could be even longer.
If you don't know:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
i bet he does this with his lips everytime hes in a briefing, moving his fingers quickly up and down on a duck lips.