Trump said he never had a "glass of alcohol" and that if he did it would be a "disaster"
Trump made those comments while responding to a question about his nominee to the US Supreme Court.
US President Donald Trump on Monday boasted of being a teetotaler to the point of not having drunk even "a beer" in his life, and said that he would be "a disaster" if he had.
"I do not drink. I can honestly say that I have not had a beer in my life. It is one of my few virtues," Trump said during a press conference.
"I've never had a glass of alcohol. I've never had alcohol, for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had? What a disaster it would be, the worst in the world," he added.
Trump made the comments while responding to a question about his Supreme Court candidate, Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused by several women of committing sexual abuse against them while he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
The president said that, in a hearing on that matter in the Senate last Thursday, Kavanaugh "made it clear that he likes beer, and that he has had some difficulties" with alcohol.
"This is not a man who has said that he is perfect when it comes to alcohol," Trump stressed, but said that this should not stop people "from doing what he wants to do with his life."
Trump acknowledged on several occasions that the reason he is a teetotaler is that his older brother, Fred, died of alcoholism when he was 43 years old.
"He had a problem with alcohol and he told me: do not drink, do not drink," the president recalled in a speech in October 2017.
