President Trump consumes classified intelligence like he does most everything else in life: ravenously and impatiently, eager to ingest glinting nuggets but often indifferent to subtleties. President Trump prefers that national security adviser H.R. McMaster attend the daily intelligence briefing. If you’re not getting their perspective, their detailed perspective, then you are flying blind.”[The many times Trump undermined, questioned, shocked and upset his own intelligence agencies]As president, Trump now takes briefings nearly every day. Presidents have received daily intelligence updates for more than 50 years, usually in written form as the President’s Daily Brief, as the classified document is known.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2017 23:11 UTC