As US President-elect Donald Trump is entitled to have a daily intelligence briefing informing him of the most highly classified information around.
However, it emerged on Friday that he has been only taking one a week.
And the reason? Well, he told Fox News Sunday today it was because he was ‘smart’
How reassuring.
In an interview that was broadcast this afternoon, he said: ‘I don’t have to be told — you know.
‘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.
‘Could be eight years —but eight years. I don’t need that’
Sources told Reuters that the vice-president elect Mike Pence has been receiving his own daily briefings six times a week.
Referring to those briefings Trump added:
‘But I do say “if something should change, let me know.”
‘But if they’re going to come in and tell me the exact same thing that they tell me — you know, it doesn’t change necessarily.
‘Now, there will be times when it might change. I mean, there will be very fluid situations. I’ll be there not every day, but more than that.’