Unlike ALL of his predecessors Donald Trump does not read the President's Daily Brief. He has it read aloud to him like a children's bedtime story.

Needs more pictures.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

For much of the past year, President Trump has declined to participate in a practice followed by the past seven of his predecessors: He rarely if ever reads the President’s Daily Brief, a document that lays out the most pressing information collected by U.S. intelligence agencies from hot spots around the world. 

Trump has opted to rely on an oral briefing of select intelligence issues in the Oval Office rather than getting the full written document delivered to review separately each day, according to three people familiar with his briefings. 

Reading the traditionally dense intelligence book is not Trump’s preferred “style of learning,” according to a person with knowledge of the situation. 

The arrangement underscores Trump’s impatience with exhaustive classified documents that go to the commander in chief — material that he has said he prefers condensed as much as possible. But by not reading the daily briefing, the president could hamper his ability to respond to crises in the most effective manner, intelligence experts warned. 

Soon after Trump took office, analysts sought to tailor their intelligence sessions for a president with a famously short attention span, who is known for taking in much of his information from the conservative Fox News Channel. The oral briefings were augmented with photos, videos and graphics. 

After several months, Trump made clear he was not interested in reviewing a personal copy of the written intelligence report known as the PDB, a highly classified summary prepared before dawn to provide the president with the best update on the world’s events, according to people with knowledge of the situation. 

Administration officials defended Trump’s reliance on oral sessions and said he gets full intelligence briefings, noting that presidents have historically sought to receive the information in different ways.

You know I originally thought the whole "Toddler-in-Chief" meme was perhaps a little exaggerated, but it seems more and more fitting all of the time.

It was also reported that Trump really only prefers to get bad news or advice from Hope Hicks.

Apparently she is the "asshole whisperer" and he does not blow a gasket when she tells him things that he does not want to hear.

So here we have a commander-in-chief who cannot read complicated reports on his own, and cannot be told bad news unless a young attractive woman is the one telling him.

If this were the captain of a ship I would be urging everybody to rush for the lifeboats now.