Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

May 31, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT


WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s intelligence chief is exploring ways to revamp his routine intelligence briefing in order to build his trust in the material and make it more aligned with how he likes to consume information, according to five people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

As part of that effort, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has solicited ideas from current and former intelligence officials about steps she could take to tailor the briefing, known as the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, to Trump’s policy interests and habits.

One idea that’s been discussed is possibly creating a video version of the PDB that’s made to look and feel like a Fox News broadcast, four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions said.

Currently, the PDB is a digital document created daily for the president and key Cabinet members and advisers that includes written text, as well as graphics and images. The material that goes into the classified briefing, and how it’s presented, can shape a president’s decision-making.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-considering-ways-revamp-trumps-intelligence-briefing-rcna209805

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[cstanleytech]

1. Trump needs all the intelligence he can get considering how he's been running on empty for years.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Punctuation?

1 to 2 syllable words only?

Shown as a 5-minute cartoon?

[forgotmylogin]

8. The first admin said...

They had to reduce paragraphs of information down to bullet points, and frequently relate it to him and use his name so he'd stay interested.

[3Hotdogs]

31. --- in Crayon with topics outlined so Trump can color them in.

[True Blue American]

38. Using his big, black Sharpee

To compensate for his tiny, little hands. You thought I was going to say something else?😵‍💫

[usaf-vet]

40. Lots of little pictures. Words are kept at a 5th-grade reading level. Remind him he is TACO-TACO man.

[Linda ladeewolf]

54. How about the pink panther- no words, just pictures and catchy music?

[generalbetrayus]

3. "Trump's intelligence" should be the 2025 oxymoron of the year.

[LonePirate]

4. Is she going to turn it into a coloring book? The right wing in this country is shameless.

[sop]

5. Maybe Jake Tapper could write a book about this?

[Haggard Celine]

6. That is pathetic!

[wcmagumba]

7. Maybe Bugs Bunny or The Care Bears could convey the information to our Farty Leader....

[BootinUp]

9. Have a Putin impersonator give the presentation. Nt

[Permanut]

10. Ah, yes, the PDB..

The Presidential Daily Briefing Memo.

Like the one from August 6th, 2001 titled

"Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US".

No need to pay any attention to those pesky things.

[SalamanderSleeps]

36. Strategery.

Am I the only one that's getting kind of this farse?

[tavernier]

11. Porn should do it.

Lots of T & A. I think probably very young and girl on girl, to match his “policy interests and habits.”

[Johonny]

12. Next time we see her, new boobs and face

I assume

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. 'New protocol for Intelligence briefings leaked:

1: All stand when dickhead enters.
2: extend right arm at 45 degree angle, saying "heil trump" at the same time.
3: let dickhead sit, all follow.
4: NSA attaches bib to dickhead's neck to prevent drool and spit marks on suit
5: speak slowly and in one syllable words. translator fluent in bullshit available if needed.
6: kiss dickhead's ring after speaking
7: let dickhead babble. pretend to listen and care
8: when dickhead leaves, stand and look at each other. Estimate loss of IQ points collectively.

[FakeNoose]

50. They need to make Chump the star of a reality TV series

That's all he really wants anyway. It's right up his alley.

[Javaman]

14. aka simple words in crayon. nt

[Justice matters.]

15. Or a sharpie. nt

[wyn borkins]

16. Today's Special (BM & PDB)

Considering all positively-suggested items mentioned herein, why not simply explain that he already had his PDB (this morning).

Then hand him a blank paper-version while explaining that the White House chef has a surprise (happy meal) waiting especially for him in the dining area.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Serve them with Tacos

That should get his attention.

[moniss]

18. Crayons, paste and colored paper. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

19. She can't succeed without

a third grade teaching certificate, which will certainly be required........

[Uncle Joe]

20. Lot of pics, preferably cartoons, make extensive use of smalls words while speaking slowly,

and give the President small treats as a reward after every five minutes of listening.

The late Mr. Rogers would've been excellent at it.

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

[jmowreader]

21. How fast can someone draw a comic book?

[RainCaster]

22. GOP considering ways to improve Trump's intelligence

This is the more accurate headline.

[Firestorm49]

23. I suggest great big crayon colored pictures.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. etch-a-sketch

[Nululu]

25. Cartoons nt

[Norrrm]

26. Cartoons and praise worship

[SouthBayDem]

27. No surprise post-literate voters voted for a post-literate president nt

[pandr32]

28. If they have to spoon feed him inelligence briefings...

that are essential to the job as though he is a moron unable to digest any information, maybe he is a moron and woefully unqualified.

[Kali]

29. The only way he will pay attention is if it is all about him

[SeattleVet]

30. Hooters has been closing restaurants.

Former servers need a job.

tRumplethinskin needs something to keep him interested.

A good match?

[SalamanderSleeps]

37. I'm not sure that anyone from any Hooters, would ever consider fucking that fetid pile of rancid fat...

.... if they ever wanted to take a nice quiet shower, ever again.

[SeattleVet]

49. I was referring to them presenting the PDB...

not doing anything else.

[Jimvanhise]

32. IF THEY SAID THIS ABOUT BIDEN A YEAR AGO

The press would have demanded that Biden resign due to incompetence. "Doesn't like to read" is a scary thing to hear about a President.

[Jack Valentino]

33. how about finding ways to revamp Trump's 'intelligence'.....

and I don't mean 'briefings'

[Jack Valentino]

34. And how ANYONE who once professed to be a Democratic congressperson

is now a member of the TRUMP administration,
sorry, that is beyond my comprehension....


unless they were lying all along, earlier---
better to 'say' you are a Democrat, if you want to get elected in Hawaii,
isn't it ???

[SalamanderSleeps]

35. She could have been a perfectly good soldier.

But, apparently being a buddy-fucker was working better for her.

[COL Mustard]

39. She could deliver it wearing a bikini

I’m pretty sure he’d pay attention then, but again he still might not be focused on the briefing material.

[jayschool2013]

41. I found their template online

?si=ur2QvgDsi_MhuCBx

[From The Ashes]

42. Well...

what will it be? cartoons and pictures to color?

[mahina]

43. Badly Written Headline Infers Brain Transplant Imminent for POTUS

When asked to confirm the individual supposedly solving this problem is Tulsi Gabbard, who did not receive a formal education,Irony could not be reached for comment.

[mahina]

44. Bafly Written Headline Infers Brain Transplant Imminent for POTUS

When asked to confirm the individual supposedly solving this problem is Tulsi Gabbard, who did not receive a formal education,Irony could mot be reached for comment.

[mdbl]

45. Start by dropping the term "Intelligence" from the title

Since there's no sign of it anywhere in that administration.

[struggle4progress]

46. Should we have Putin brief him? Or maybe Laura Loomer? Or some of his white supremacist pals?

How about the top purchasers of the Trump meme coin? Or his favorite parking garage lawyers?

[Montauk6]

47. When some of us were 10, we got our briefing from Christopher Glenn every Sat. morning

[BumRushDaShow]

48. LOL

I found this "early" one and have now lost some brain files (I was off to college by then)!

(and am noting the commercials - especially the one for "Star Wars" - which I have been yelling for almost 50 years - was NOT called "Star Wars: A New Hope" but was just called "Star Wars" Hubba bubba )

[live love laugh]

51. Short Attention Span Theater redux

[dgauss]

52. Make the PDB look like a prize he gets with his Happy Meal.

[yourout]

53. They want him to pay attention they need to add a stripper pole and have them presented by a woman in a bikini

[republianmushroom]

55. Anybody got one of those magic 8 balls ?

[William Gustafson]

56. The sad thing is...

As his brain starts to fade, as we have all been seeing, no matter how simple they make the Daily Briefing, he will not be able to comprehend what is being took to him.
No matter how simple they make it, he will never understand, and he will make decisions on gut feeling from a man that isn't thinking rationally. We are all at the whims of a man that will not get any better.
It may come to those below him, actually making the decisions... And with this group, I'm not so sure that is any better....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Fox News is going to be granted special security clearance to produce these Presidential Daily Briefings

[Torchlight]

58. I think some updated Schoolhouse Rock! music videos

would be right up his main street. Put him, a bucket o' chicken, and some old, educational video clips (No, Statler & Waldorf, again... it wasn't propaganda) on in front of him for a few hours, he may learn something.

Or not.

I'd bet on the latter.

[BumRushDaShow]

59. "Statler & Waldorf"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. The President doesn't read. We are SO cooked.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

61. Recommend Maddow Blog-To deliver intelligence to Trump, DNI Tulsi Gabbard eyes creative solutions

The president doesn’t like to read intelligence reports, so officials are considering new ideas — including turning briefings into Fox News–style segments.

Link to tweet

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To deliver intelligence to Trump, DNI Tulsi Gabbard eyes creative solutions

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— (@gypsydaveh.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T23:23:17.329Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/deliver-intelligence-trump-dni-tulsi-gabbard-eyes-creative-solutions-rcna210471

But perhaps most important is the fact that Trump tends to ignore intelligence briefings and reports, as NBC News reported that Gabbard is exploring new ways to “revamp” his intelligence briefings in order to bring them in line with “how he likes to consume information.” From the report:

One idea that’s been discussed is possibly creating a video version of the PDB that’s made to look and feel like a Fox News broadcast, four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions said. ... One idea that has been discussed is to transform the PDB so it mirrors a Fox News broadcast, according to four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Under that concept as it has been discussed, the national intelligence director’s office could hire a Fox News producer to produce it and one of the network’s personalities to present it; Trump, an avid Fox News viewer, could then watch the broadcast PDB whenever he wanted.

I can appreciate why this might seem amusing, but NBC News wasn’t kidding.

The same report noted that one insider envisioned a new presidential daily briefing that would include “maps with animated representations of exploding bombs, similar to a video game,” apparently in the hopes of capturing the president’s attention.

“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read,” said one person with direct knowledge of the PDB discussions.

Of course, that’s only part of the problem. Not only does the Republican avoid reading briefing materials, he also doesn’t want to receive in-person, oral presentations of intelligence, either. Politico reported last month that Trump, during his second term, “has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief,” which represents “a significant drop” compared with the Republican’s first term, and a vastly smaller number than the presentations for recent Democratic presidents......

In early 2020, the Post reported that Trump missed the early alarms on the Covid threat in part because he “routinely skips reading the PDB” and had “little patience” for oral summaries of the intelligence. Exactly five years ago next week, The New York Times had a related report:

The president veers off on tangents and getting him back on topic is difficult, they said. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He is unashamed to interrupt intelligence officers and riff based on tips or gossip. ... Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview, the officials said. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to present information to him.

It was an extraordinary revelation to consider: A sitting American president, in a time of multiple and dangerous crises, was so resistant to learning about security threats that his own country’s intelligence officials sought outside help to figure out how to get him to listen and focus.

Will Gabbard figure out a way to get Trump to care about information he doesn’t want to receive? There’s reason for skepticism.

I like the concept that in lieu Fox, Gabbard gets Disney involved. Disney may be able to bring the material down to trump's intellectual level

Customized WH Intelligence Briefings
To deliver intelligence to Trump, DNI Tulsi Gabbard eyes creative solutions 🤪

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Aquarius1842 (@aquarius1842.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T00:06:00.278Z

[LetMyPeopleVote]

62. The new Presidential Daily Brief