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.
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He's too demented to understand them anyway. He wouldn't care even if he could.
That's optimistic. The handlers are probably still at (or even orchestrating) the briefings.
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.
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'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.
Yeah, and it shows.
We have no intelligence!
"I wouldn't say I've been missing them, Bob."
Did you get the memo?
PC load letter? the fuck does that mean?
He doesn't need to attend to pass on the important stuff to Vlad. Tulsi does that for him now.
Tulski*
Call her by her birth name.
Intelligence has skipped Trump since the beginning…
If he were to attend, wouldn't it be an "Intelligence + 1 guest" briefing?
Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.
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.
Best news in a while.
He should hire Obama to go to intelligence briefings in his place
I imagine that Trump feels like he doesn't need them. He's just going to wing it.
And Nero chose to play a fiddle.
Well, "intelligence" hadn't featured so far, so this shouldn't be a surprise...
Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.
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"
Of course, they contradict his delusional world view.
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.
Well, he's not an intelligent person, so...
i bet he does this with his lips everytime hes in a briefing, moving his fingers quickly up and down on a duck lips.
I love this man('s incompetence as the leader of American imperialism).
Sure, but there’s also the intelligence concerning Russian and Chinese aggression. Not that that would matter to him, now that he’s making the US an aggressor too.
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.
He’s actively being aggressive to allies, now. Big(ger) difference. Before there may have been overt trade negotiation in favor of the US, now there’s active trade aggression and talks of possible military force if needed.
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.
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