The Real Reason Donald Trump Doesn't Drink Alcohol
While it appears that 2020 U.S. presidential rivals Donald Trump and Joe Biden seem like polar opposites, they have one thing in common: Neither drink alcohol, and they haven't for most of their adult lives.
According to Marie Claire, the reason for Biden's sobriety is alcoholism on the maternal side of his family, which also affected his brother Frankie. His son Hunter has also struggled with addictions in his life. Trump has been even more outspoken about the family tragedy that led him to avoid the call "Devilish rum".
In a 2015 interview with The Daily Mail, he talked about his older brother Fred Trump, Jr., who struggled with alcoholism during his short life.
Fred died at age 43 of a heart attack, allegedly linked to his addiction
to drink. "I had a brother, Fred. A great guy. A very handsome guy.
The best personality. Much better than mine. " The president said of his brother, "Fred was the best person I ever knew.
He had a very, very difficult life because of alcohol, and it broke my heart the way in which he died. He was ridiculous, if you think about it.
He had so much future ahead of him. So much." Trump cited the negative example of his brother as the reason for his abstention from alcohol, as well as the advice Fred gave him to stay away from drinking. "He used to tell me, 'Don't drink. Do not drink.'"
Trump explained, "That's why I never drink. I just don't.
Fred told me not to, and I witnessed what he suffered when he did not follow his his own advice. " In a Newsweek editorial, Susan Cheever, daughter of heavy drinker and writer John Cheever, wrote about the impact that alcoholism in a close relative can have on the
survivors. She wrote, "Without treatment, abstainers [...] are often control freaks and hyper-competent, because they are the ones who have to take care of an alcoholic household.
They are honest and occasionally full of rage - scars from the family tragedies that they have led them not to drink. "
Cheever notes that Donald tends to play the roles of a sober family member. of an alcoholic: he acts as someone responsible, finding jobs for members of family and encouraging them to stay sober.
He is also what she calls the "hero" whose "success distracts from the family problem." He also plays the role of the scapegoat, who is willing to tell the truth such and how he sees it, regardless of the consequences. Other people who don't drink explain that they don't like the lack of control that drinking brings alcohol, which could be another factor in the president's decision to abstain.
That said, there is an occasion when Trump has said that he drinks an alcoholic beverage: in the church.
Speaking at a Family Leadership Summit in 2015, he said:
"When we go to church… I drink some wine, which is the only wine I drink." But on the other hand Trump has been seen at least with a drink in hand on occasion officers.
The networks were exploded by an incident in which Trump was seen with a glass of wine in shaking hands at a meeting of the United Nations in New York in 2017.
A luncheon hosted by the UN Secretary General featured speeches and some toasts, in which Trump participated.
On two occasions he was seen taking what The Telegraph described as "a sip" earlier. passing the glass to an assistant.
It was speculated that the glass contained grape juice or his favorite drink, Diet Coke. But even if it was wine, it is clear that he took the smallest sip imaginable.
In a humbling moment, Trump himself said at a press conference at the House Blanca in 2018 that his sobriety was "one of his only good traits" about him. He went on to say,
"I've never had alcohol, you know, for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had, what a disaster it would be? It would be the worst in the world. "
