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.
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.
That’s optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.
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?
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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.
He’s too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn’t care even if he could.
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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”
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.
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Tulski*
Call her by her birth name.
Wait, I got one!
Let’s see… Trump. Intelligence. Trump lacking intelligence…
Nah, I got nothing.
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
Best news in a while.
Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.
We have no intelligence!
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
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.
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.
I’m certain that his cronies are relieved when he doesn’t show up. They are executing project 2025 according to plan. He just gets in the way with his ego.
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.
Well, he’s not an intelligent person, so…
