Trump Has Skipped All but 12 of His Daily Intelligence Briefings

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated May 10 2025 2:54AM EDT
Published May 10 2025 1:03AM EDT


Donald Trump has been president (for the second time) for more than 100 days. In that time, he has reportedly shown a troubling lack of regard for his daily intelligence briefings. Trump has reportedly sat for just 12 “daily” briefings since his second term began in January—an eyebrow-raising drop from the already infrequent schedule of his first time in office, POLITICO reports.

Despite needing to navigate high-stakes diplomacy with the likes of Russia, China, and Iran, the commander-in-chief has largely ghosted the intelligence community’s most critical briefing tool. POLITICO reports that Trump received just two in-person intelligence updates per month in the first quarter of 2025 before shifting to a weekly briefing schedule in April. During his first term, Trump averaged two per week, the same number as Biden did during his administration.

“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,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

While Trump’s aides insist he remains fully informed through ad-hoc calls and top-level briefings, critics say these informal meetings lack the hard truths and nuance that trained intelligence briefers provide—especially as their insights often conflict with White House narratives.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-skipped-out-on-all-but-12-of-his-daily-intelligence-briefings/

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Meanwhile THE MEDIA: "ButBiden".
(and that referenced Politico article was NOT on their main page at 6:00 pm EDT yesterday)

[twodogsbarking]

1. No amount of meetings will give him intelligence.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Reality conflicts with his world view and his desires, therefore reality and facts get eliminated.

[tanyev]

4. Yes. Sadly, he's getting all the "intelligence" he thinks he needs from people like Laura Loomer.

[groundloop]

3. He values Putin's opinion more than our own intelligence community.

Plus he won't listen to anything that's contradicts his preconceived opinions.

[Woodwizard]

5. Hey cut him some slack

He has to fleece the rubes with his meme coins..... Priorities ya know.

[Historic NY]

6. He's got the place on auto-pilot

behind the scenes Stephen Miller is pulling the strings.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Trump is only interested in grifting, showing off, and destroying the US economy and govt.

Nothing else matters to him.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. He gets all he needs from

his two other DAILY briefings......One from 2025, the Other from Putin............

It should be more than clear to everyone.......

[Vinca]

9. Must be a nice vacation for the cartoonists who make the story boards to show him.

[Hope22]

10. Derelict...

Is derelict of duty. There is a process for stopping this! The people in charge of making sure that the president is sound and carrying out the duties of the office are also derelict of duty. Do the hard things and stop this madman!!!

[Pinback]

14. Derelict Donald

Dereliction of duty by a decaying derelict.

[cadoman]

11. it is astonishing that any President would distrust the great work of our FBI and CIA agents

Truly some of the greatest and most honorable intelligence agencies in HISTORY, and we are being denied the fruits of their work EVERY DAY!!

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

[Gary 50]

13. He doesn't have anywhere near the intelligence to understand them,

so no great loss. He remains fully informed by Fox Propaganda and other treasonous fascist liars.

[FakeNoose]

17. That's the truth

Another possibility, I think he's trying to hide the fact that he's hard of hearing. That's why he never answers questions in press conferences and interviews, because he can't hear them well enough. But he'll never admit it and wear a hearing aid either.

[Pinback]

15. When you already know everything, what's the point?

[JoseBalow]

16. How many golf weekends has he skipped?

Dumb and lazy

[riversedge]

18. Maybe Trump is competing with Patel to see who can work less??

[H2O Man]

19. Recommended.

Better he skips them. He has no grasp of intelligence.

[Orrex]

20. His intelligence is indeed very brief

[SupportSanity]

21. Trump knows what's important. Evidently, everything else is more important. And besides,.....

Intelligence reports require intelligence.

Oh, forgot...... Stable Genius.

Right!.

[LittleGirl]

22. Isn't that an acceptable error in judgment?

I mean, if he was truly informed with everything that’s going on, he will wedge his way into it, right?

His brown shirts know what’s going on and that is dangerous enough.

[jmowreader]

23. In a way that's good

Right now I wouldn't trust the bastard with intelligence you got by reading the newspaper.

I have said in the past that if I was the desk analyst in charge of preparing the President's Daily Brief I'd use nothing but open-source information in it but I've changed my mind: just giving him open-source would show him the methods used to pick out the stories we used for the PDB. No, what they need to do with Trump is just read him every story in the New York Times.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Surprised he attended that many. Must have been exhausted. JHC.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Who is surprised by this?

[marble falls]

26. Just as well.

[Traildogbob]

27. Miller, Kegsbreath and his wife

Were there, surely. Millers in control anyway. Making all the calls.

[FirstLight]

28. Dereliction of duty

Well everything else that he does could be filtered through political lens, this one could stick. Imagine your first 90 day probationary. On a job, and you only show up for 2 weeks! Over 3 months!

Might be enough for somebody to find a way to impeach even those with an R after their name

[LudwigPastorius]

29. MIHOP national catastrophe incoming!

Trump’s just itching to hammer down on all the presidential emergency powers something like that would give him.

As bad as W was after 9/11, imagine Trump in his place.