The White House is the safest place in America.
Posted by Real Time with Bill Maher, Checked
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- 45%
Real Time with Bill MaherOct 24, 2026
The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, which relays a 60 Minutes segment in which Secret Service official Matt Quinn said the White House is 'the safest place on Earth.' The sources show officials and insiders asserting the White House is very safe, but none provides an independent comparative measure ranking it safest in America, and none contradicts.
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What was said
… He's a builder. No, I know, I get it, I get it. He could be building a ship in a bottle. This is what he does, what ever. But he and he also feels safe, and for a guy as they tried to kill three times, I don't blame him. Like they said on 60 Minutes a couple of weeks ago, it is the safest place in America. So he just he's just so imperious when he's out of the White House, and when he's there, the total opposite. He never pulls rank, no matter how flippant I get. He never goes, How dare you say that in the White House? …
Real Time with Bill Maher · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. A 60 Minutes transcript (CBS, Oct. 11, 2026) quotes Secret Service official Matt Quinn saying 'at the White House, White House is the safest place on Earth,' which is the assertion the post relays.[3][4]
Context. Trump told 60 Minutes in April 2026 that the planned ballroom is 'being built on the safest piece of property in this country,' an official's self-assessment rather than a measured comparison.[1][5]
Context. A former Secret Service supervisor told The Independent the White House sits on 'the safest 18 acres in America,' an expert opinion rather than documented data.[6]
Context. The Secret Service's own protection page describes its mission at the White House but makes no comparative safety ranking.[2]
Sources
6 sources: 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1President Trump on 60 Minutes: “There Was Tremendous ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Safeguarding Placessecretservice.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 360 Minutes Transcript: Secret Service confronts rise in threats to ...cbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 460 Minutes : KPIX : October 11, 2026 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT : Free ...archive.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 560 Minutes Trump Interview on WHCD Shootingrev.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Here's how the Secret Service will protect Trump during a ‘Rating 1' threat level at White House UFC cage fight eventthe-independent.com · not rated · cited for: context
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