After Trump puts his full cabinet together and met with them collectively and one on one and otherwise prepared to be POTUS there will be plenty of time to attend intelligence briefings.  It is obvious that Obama missed a lot of intelligence briefings (they are hard to hold on the golf course and during frequent prolonged holidays) after he became president.  More importantly, he paid little attention to these briefings and to his generals.  What is the point of attending intelligence briefings and then pulling out of Iraq prematurely leaving the country ripe for the picking by that Jay Vee team ISIS or of drawing red lines in the sand in Syria when everybody knows you are not going to enforce them or of leaving Libya to degenerate into anarchy and chaos or of helping to oust Mubarek and backing The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?  I could go on but I'm running out of space.  Incredibly, Obama was even more useless than Carter in foreign policy and respect for America is at its nadir.