NYPD transit chief on Trump’s childhood antics: ‘Please don’t ride between the subway cars’

The president may have inspired millions of fans, but there’s one habit that a senior official with the New York Police Department does not want young people to emulate: riding between the subway cars.

Joseph Fox, the chief of NYPD’s transit bureau, took President Trump’s Wednesday confession that he used to ride between subway cars during his school years as an opportunity to remind commuters to stay safe.

During a moment of levity in an otherwise serious interview about New York City infrastructure projects with the New York Times, Trump bragged about knowing his hometown’s subway system well despite not having used it for years.

The president’s wealth afforded him a lifestyle in which he has not driven a car for a long time, and he hasn’t needed to rely on the subway. On Wednesday, Trump fondly reminisced about the days when he used to live in his home borough of Queens and take the subway to school — and revealed that he was something of a subway surfer.

“It’s been a long time. It’s been a long time,” he told the Times in the interview. “I know the subway system very well. I used to take it to Kew-Forest School, in Forest Hills, when I lived in Queens. And I’d take the subway to school. Seems a long time ago. I’d take it from Jamaica, 179th Street. Jamaica, right? To Forest Hills. I understand the subway very well. I used to ride between the cars.”

Trump added that his parents “weren’t thrilled when they heard that.” And neither, it appears, was the NYPD.

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