THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

A group of dedicated professionals committed to protecting our country or an intellectually challenged, barely literate Mango Mussolini who has sold his American birthright for a handfull of rubles? The day after the combined heads of American intelligence agencies stated that Mango is wrong about most od his foreign policy, Mango fired back, Nuh-unh! I right and your wrong, Pooty told me so.

In a series of Twitter posts the day after senior American intelligence officials briefed Congress and directly contradicted some of Mr. Trump’s rosier estimations, the president reasserted his own conclusions and trumpeted his accomplishments on critical national security matters. He said the Islamic State’s control in parts of Iraq and Syria “will soon be destroyed,” and that there was a “decent chance of Denuclearization” in North Korea.

On Tuesday, top intelligence officials described a different Iran, one that is not currently trying to make a nuclear bomb and appears to be complying with a 2015 agreement, even after Mr. Trump last year promised to withdraw from it.

On Syria, intelligence officials said the Islamic State would go on “to stoke violence” with thousands of fighters there and in Iraq, and with 12 networks around the world. Regarding North Korea, they said Pyongyang was not likely to permanently shed itself of nuclear weapons — contradicting a prediction Mr. Trump has made based on what he has called the “best” relationship the two nations have ever had.

“It’s deeply dangerous that the White House isn’t listening,” Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a Twitter post Wednesday morning.

The threat assessment — an annual report to Congress that ranks threats to American national security from around the world — provides the public with an unclassified and up-to-date summary of the most pressing national security threats to the United States.

Dan Coats, the national intelligence director, had told lawmakers that North Korea’s “leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival.” He said that there was “some activity that is inconsistent with full denuclearization” in the country and that most of what it had dismantled was reversible. Mr. Trump is expected to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, next month.

Mr. Trump announced in December a plan to withdraw American troops from Syria after concluding that “we have won” against the Islamic State. Prominent members of his own party have denounced what Senator Mitch McConnell on Tuesday called “a precipitous withdrawal” of American troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

In what may be one of his most intellectually maladroit responses, Mango replied “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school,”. Feeling safer now?