Trump Has Skipped Almost All of His Intelligence Briefings
www.thedailybeast.com
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.

    • j0ester@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    61·
    4 months ago

    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”

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    1223·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Dagnet@lemmy.world
      81·
      4 months ago

      Not sure, he is probably getting his intelligence from Russia at this point

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        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.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      31·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      21·
      4 months ago

      That’s optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.

    • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
      30·
      4 months ago

      He’s too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn’t care even if he could.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
    131·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • jaxxed@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        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.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        114·
        4 months ago

        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.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            13·
            4 months ago

            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.

  • opus86@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I imagine that Trump feels like he doesn’t need them. He’s just going to wing it.