Trump Has Had Just 12 ‘Daily’ Intelligence Briefings

The U.S. intelligence services scan the whole world with a view to threats to national security. They regularly present their findings to the President, but Donald Trump does not seem to attach any particular importance to them.

Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office

Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief. That’s a significant drop compared with Trump’s first term in office, according to a POLITICO analysis of his public schedule. In much of his first term, Trump met with intel officials twice a week for the briefing, which provides the intelligence community’s summary of the most pressing …

Trump Has Skipped Almost All of His Intelligence Briefings

The president’s lax approach to national security has some intelligence officials alarmed.

Trump Has Had Just 12 ‘Daily’ Intelligence Briefings

“Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief,” Politico reports.

New Report Reveals How Many Intelligence Briefings Trump Has Attended Since Taking Office

President Donald Trump has been back in office for almost four months now. But in that time, he has only attended 12 in-person intelligence briefings—the kind where top officials explain threats and updates from around the world. That’s much fewer than during his first term, and people in the intelligence world are worried. These briefings are called the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB. They are prepared by top U.S. intelligence agencies and are…

Since President Donald Trump was sworn in in January, he has listened to only 12 intelligence briefings as part of the President's Daily Briefing.