Overview

• Gabbard has solicited input from current and former officials on revamping the President’s Daily Brief to align with Trump’s policy interests and consumption habits.
• One proposal under discussion would convert the PDB into a video styled like a Fox News broadcast, with network producers and personalities granted security clearances.
• Trump has received the PDB fewer than once per week on average, leading Gabbard to attribute his low engagement to a preference for verbal or broadcast presentations and distrust of written intelligence.
• She has explored shifting the briefing’s focus toward economic and trade issues while reducing routine coverage of conflicts such as the war in Ukraine.
• The DNI’s press secretary has dismissed the reporting as “laughable” and “flat-out false,” and some lawmakers warn the plan could politicize intelligence after dismissals of senior analysts.