During his only term in office, which he failed to renew in the 2020 election, former U.S. President Donald Trump showed the most interest in intelligence briefings, especially when they related to his personal relationships with world leaders and the powers he held, according to intelligence. and testimonies of former officials.

According to a New York Times report, Trump had no interest in secret weapons programs, but he was often asked about the shape of the naval ships and also questioned the speakers about the size and strength of the US nuclear arsenal.

The former US president also liked to take down targets of high importance, such as the operations that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northern Syria and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. , as a result of a drone strike near Baghdad airport.

But the details of national security policy were tiresome for Trump, the paper said.

Unlike some of his predecessors, Trump was not interested in UFO intelligence reports, but he did ask questions about the assassination of the late US President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).

His desire to learn confidential information related to criminal investigations also became a focus of his interest, along with how he dealt with the hundreds of confidential documents he kept in his Florida home after leaving his job.

The New York Times noted that the topics covered by the materials that Trump kept at his home are still unknown, and questions about the reasons for keeping them and his resistance to their return remain unanswered.

US intelligence agencies have not yet fully assessed national security threats, but plan to do so at the request of congressional lawmakers, including members of the Senate Intelligence Committee from Democrats and Republicans.

But if you look at the things the former US president was most interested in during intelligence briefings, based on interviews with former Trump administration officials and people who provided intelligence reports to him, it turns out that he was attracted to topics that contained clear narratives, personal elements, or optical components.

Officials have differed on how often and how often Trump has kept documents, with some saying materials were collected again after briefings ended, while others said he always asked to keep materials, especially photographs or graphics.

“Intelligence instructors were trying to find a way to understand what he was thinking, and they would bring a picture, like a graph or something, and pass it to him through the Resolute office,” said former Trump national security adviser John Bolton.

But there is a widespread perception of what classified information Trump was interested in and what bored him.

By the end of his tenure, the 45th president realized that the intelligence community’s views on world leaders were valuable, the former officials said, as he quickly and willingly read intelligence briefings about foreign counterparts before and after talking to them.

And the paper said Trump’s interest in keeping the documents bothered people who briefed him from time to time, noting that some of those people were aware of his penchant for talking about classified information and were therefore reluctant to tell him everything.

The newspaper pointed out that the former US president received two intelligence briefings a week during his tenure, but he had countless ways to obtain classified information, such as preparatory sessions before meetings or calls with world leaders, discussions in the operating room, reports from Pentagon leaders. about strikes and visits by an unofficial national security adviser to the Oval Office.

According to intelligence reports and information released by former officials, Trump sometimes asked National Security Council officials to bring him classified documents, and he usually didn’t like going to the Situation Room or even the Oval Office for private briefings.

The newspaper added that Pentagon officials briefed Trump on the special operations carried out to kill al-Baghdadi in the Yellow Oval Room, which is located in the White House residence and overlooks the Washington Monument.

Some officials said that Trump sometimes took the document from secret briefings or requested the document from National Security Council staff.

Trump has always taken a keen interest in military and intelligence briefings on Iran, asking Defense Department officials about their contingency plans in the event of a war with Tehran and covert operations to counter it in the Middle East.

However, Trump’s concerns have worried intelligence officials, as he did when he posted a photo of an Iranian missile launch pad taken from an intelligence briefing on his Twitter account.

For several days, scientists and experts outside the administration used the image to identify the satellite it had captured and assess the capabilities of its cameras.

The New York Times reported that former US presidents rarely followed the intelligence briefings they were given.

The newspaper quoted former CIA deputy director Michael Morell as saying that former President George W. Bush was not asked to keep anything but a list of those responsible for the 9/11 events.

Morell added that Bush carefully kept classified materials and never took the list out of the Oval Office.