10 Safety Tips for Kids, by Donald Trump
- On looking both ways when crossing the street
I just don’t want to look both ways myself. It’s a recommendation. I just don’t want to be doing — I don’t know, somehow walking across that beautiful street, in front of those beautiful speeding cars, I think looking both ways — I don’t know, somehow, I don’t see it for myself.
2. On stranger danger
I don’t think it’s inevitable that the stranger asking you to get in his car will kidnap you. He probably will. He possibly will. He could be just a nice guy who wants to take you out for an ice cream. Or he could be a pedophile. Hard to say. Hard to say.
3. On putting marbles in your mouth
Wouldn’t it be great to have your mouth full? I just think it would be a beautiful thing. Really pack those marbles in. Because you have to do that. I would love to have that.
4. On playing with matches
I think the number of kids who light their houses on fire is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of kids that do this, because a lot of houses will have matches, and a house fire is very mild. … So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of kids that start house fires just by, you know, sitting around and playing with matches — some of them play with matches, but they don’t get burned up.
5. On drinking the disinfectant under the sink
I think you should try that. It does a tremendous number on the lungs. Really clears them out. Just don’t swallow the cap; I’ve heard bottle caps are a choking hazard.
6. On using floaties in the deep end of the pool
Too itchy. Totally not comfortable. We cannot let the prevention of drowning be worse than the problem of drowning. You know the doctors, if it was up to the doctors, they’d say let’s just get rid of water. And then the thirst, the people dying of the thirst, it would be in far greater numbers.
7. On buckling your seatbelts
It’s going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it, you don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it. Can you imagine me in the Oval Office wearing a seatbelt? But some kids may want to do it and that’s OK. They may work. They probably will.
8. On safety helmets and knee pads
There’s a theory that, in the summer, when it gets warm — historically, that has been able to stop kids from falling off their bikes and skateboards. So we don’t know yet; we’re not sure yet. But that’s around the corner.
9. On wearing a coat so you don’t catch a cold
This is your daily reminder that Barack Obama wore a coat. And it was tan. That was a decision I disagreed with.
10. On sticking fingers in electrical sockets
Let’s see what happens. No one really knows.
