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The Mind Shield

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Gabbard wants Fox hosts to present intel briefings to Trump.

Gabbard wants Fox hosts to present intel briefings to Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Gabbard, a former Congresswoman from Hawaii who previously ran for president as a Democrat before joining the Republican Party and supporting President Trump, is facing criticism from Senators over her lack of intelligence experience and her opinions on domestic surveillance powers. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly trying to find new ways to get Donald Trump to pay attention to his routine intelligence briefings since the president “doesn’t read.”

According to NBC News, Gabbard has turned to current and former intelligence officials for advice on how to get Trump, 79, to focus on the President’s Daily Briefs, or PDBs, five people with knowledge of the discussions told the outlet.

The PDB is a digital document with written text and pictures, but as one insider told NBC, “The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read. He’s on broadcast all the time.”

In order to get Trump’s attention, one idea Gabbard and her team is reportedly considering is to add “animated representations of exploding bombs, similar to a video game” to the PDB and hire a Fox News producer to produce it and a host to present it. That way the briefing would have the look and feel of a Fox News show and Trump could watch it whenever he wants.

NBC noted that would involve granting the Fox News team security clearance to access classified information.

Intelligence officials similarly struggled to brief Trump during his first term. Trump’s lack of focus then ultimately forced officials to change the PDB to a one-page outline that was presented verbally by an intelligence official twice a week, according to former CIA officer John Helgerson.

In a statement DNI Press Secretary Olivia Coleman said, “This so-called ‘reporting’ is laughable, absurd, and flat-out false. In true fake news fashion, NBC is publishing yet another anonymously sourced false story.”

The White House similarly dismissed the story as “libelous garbage from unnamed sources.”

“President Trump has assembled a world-class intelligence team who he is constantly communicating with and receiving real time updates on all pressing national security issues,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said. “Ensuring the safety and security of the American people is President Trump’s number one priority.”