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Trump Won't Take Daily Intel Briefings, So His DNI Wants to Hire Fox News Producers to Make Them
This. Is. Not. Normal.
According to NBC News:
"According to his public schedule, since his inauguration Trump has taken the PDB 14 times, or on average less than once a week, which is less often than his recent predecessors — including himself during his first term. An analysis of their public schedules during that same timeframe — from their inauguration through May during their first year in office — shows that former President Joe Biden received 90 PDBs"
From Dailykos:
Could anything be a more perfect representation of Trump's utter lack of concern for the gravity of America's place in a dangerous world? He simply couldn't care less. And his capacity to understand what's going on is below that of a remedial elementary schooler. Consequently, his own staff believes that he requires a special education program modeled after the lowest IQ cable news network, Fox News.
However, it's curious that Gabbard would need to hire Fox News producers and presenters to act out Trump's briefings when the Trump administration already has so many former Fox News employees (including Gabbard) working in the White House right now.
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The fact that Trump is regarded by his own staff as too mentally deficient to grasp the complexities of national security without it being dumbed down for him in Fox News video bites, should worry the intelligence community that is still in place. And it should also worry the American people. That is, if the media does its job to inform them on an ongoing basis with the appropriate measure of urgency.
However, it's curious that Gabbard would need to hire Fox News producers and presenters to act out Trump's briefings when the Trump administration already has so many former Fox News employees (including Gabbard) working in the White House right now.
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The fact that Trump is regarded by his own staff as too mentally deficient to grasp the complexities of national security without it being dumbed down for him in Fox News video bites, should worry the intelligence community that is still in place. And it should also worry the American people. That is, if the media does its job to inform them on an ongoing basis with the appropriate measure of urgency.
Referring links:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-considering-ways-revamp-trumps-intelligence-briefing-rcna209805
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/31/2325283/-Trump-Won-t-Take-Daily-Intel-Briefings-So-His-DNI-Wants-to-Hire-Fox-News-Producers-to-Make-Them
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