In one of his few post-election appearances, president-elect Donald Trump admitted that he receives an intelligence briefing only once per week, compared to the six times per week president Barack Obama does currently.

Why? That's a whole different story.

Over the weekend, Trump told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that he didn't need daily intelligence briefings because he can figure it out himself. "I get it when I need it," Trump said on the show. "I'm, like, a smart person. I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. But I do say, 'If something should change, let us know.'"

Trump attempted to defend his statement by saying that the necessary officials were receiving intelligence updates. "In the meantime, my generals are great—[they're] being briefed. And Mike Pence is being briefed, who is, by the way, one of my very good decisions," he argued.

The situation is especially ironic given Trump's past criticism of Barack Obama when he falsely believed, without evidence, that the president was missing these same briefings.

Trump's ambivalence toward national security is also particularly alarming given a recent CIA report that showed evidence of Russian hacking during the election, another scandal the president-elect is attempting to dismiss.

What will it take the president-elect to finally listen? The jury's out on that one. But given that now the Chinese are flying nuclear warheads over the South China Sea to "send a message" to Trump, he might want to start attending a few more of those intelligence sessions.

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