good summary. john did a good job with that title because it conveys so much. it wasn t that donald trump was un-briefable. he did have intelligence briefings during the transition, and he did keep them through much of his presidency, but those briefings were decidedly different than with any other president. because donald trump did not want to sit there and listen to the objective facts as judged by the intelligence community. he wanted to talk. he wanted to interrupt. he wanted to ask questions. and not really focus on what the evidence was as much as what he thought the evidence was. that led to a very difficult relationship for an intelligence enterprise that has been built up over decades solely to get objective information before the president. look, you ve written about this, every president is different in their engagement style, but there s this absorbing of the information.