The Most Dangerous Job in America? | The Kirk Cameron Show Ep 141
The Kirk Cameron Show
Kirk Cameron
4.9 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's the most dangerous job in America? |
| 0:03.0 | Working on an oil rig, being a logger, a roofer, law enforcement, firefighter, |
| 0:10.0 | fishing in the Bering Sea, all of them really dangerous, but not even close. |
| 0:16.0 | What if I told you it's the presidency? |
| 0:19.0 | Not just because of the workload, it's a ton, not just because of the stress, unthinkable, |
| 0:26.1 | but because you literally have a target on your back. |
| 0:30.1 | After yet another assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, this is the third major |
| 0:36.5 | assassination attempt. |
| 0:38.3 | We've got to wrestle with something deeper than politics. |
| 0:41.8 | What does it actually do to a man when he's leading a nation knowing that someone is going to |
| 0:48.7 | try to kill you for it? |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, how do you sleep at night? |
| 0:51.9 | And when you wake up in the morning, what does that do to your |
| 0:54.5 | psyche? And what does that fact reveal about us as a nation? So I did some research. Let's just look at the |
| 1:04.1 | statistics. Roughly four out of 45 presidents have been assassinated. So that's close to 9%. So one out of 10. If you include |
| 1:16.6 | those who were shot or nearly killed, the number climbs even higher. And about one in five presidents |
| 1:24.3 | have died in office. Some from violence. They were killed. Others from the crushing |
| 1:31.2 | weight of the role itself. There is no OSHA safety chart that includes that. There's no job |
| 1:39.4 | warning when you become president that says, oh, by the way, people may try to kill you, and you need to sign a |
| 1:45.3 | waiver. Yet, every president knows it. Watch this. Race car drivers, I think it's very dangerous. |
| 1:51.0 | If you take 1% and then take about 10% of 1%, just to break it down very easily, they die. So much less |
| 2:00.5 | than 1%, 10% of 1%. But if you take presidents, |
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