Trump went from a high of 4.1 briefings per week on average in March 2017 to 0.7 per week since July 1, shortly after it became public that he had ignored intelligence reports about Russia offering bounties to the Taliban for each American soldier killed in Afghanistan.

Mondays briefing, in fact, was the first in August and the first since July 22. That month had only three briefings scheduled.

Its remarkable that, even at their peak, they never exceeded 20 per month, said Ned Price, a former CIA analyst and a spokesman for the National Security Council during the Obama administration.

And now that they are arguably more important than ever, as foreign actors are again interfering in our democracy, tensions with Beijing are swirling, and Americas adversaries and competitors are becoming more emboldened, the president cant seem to find the time to be briefed, he added.