The POTUS is using this &quot;my job is to keep Americans safe&quot; line to make a very tenuous tie to a position he wants to take on solitary confinement.<p>Using your analogy, imagine the bus driver said &quot;It&#x27;s my job to keep the kids safe, therefore I&#x27;m going to start requiring all the kids to give me their cell phone numbers in case there&#x27;s an emergency.&quot;<p>Could that be construed as &quot;keeping the kids safe&quot;?  Sure, but  that wouldn&#x27;t necessarily make you any more comfortable with the bus driver gaining more intimate access to your children.<p>I know analogies are never perfect, but another nitpick with this one is that the POTUS holds a position of power and authority that you wouldn&#x27;t typically have to worry about in your average bus driver, so additional scrutiny into &quot;Just what did he mean by that?&quot; is occasionally warranted.