{"id":10435,"date":"2025-10-08T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:23:23","slug":"donald-trump-reveals-real-reason-why-hes-never-drunk-a-drop-of-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=10435","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reveals real reason why he&#8217;s never drunk a drop of alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump has never touched alcohol in his life, and the reason goes back to his older brother, Fred Trump Jr. During an interview on Theo Von\u2019s podcast <em>This Past Weekend<\/em>, Trump, now 79 and in his second presidential term, explained that watching his brother struggle with addiction made a lasting impact. \u201cI had a great brother who taught me a lesson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred was charismatic and admired, but he battled alcohol addiction for years. He drank heavily and smoked, and despite his strong health, the damage was undeniable. He died of a heart attack at 42 in 1981. Trump witnessed how addiction took over Fred\u2019s life and often tells his own children: \u201cNo drugs, no drinking, no cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump admitted he could have easily fallen into the same trap if he had ever started drinking. Watching Fred\u2019s decline \u201camazed\u201d him\u2014how someone so full of promise could be overtaken by addiction. This experience convinced him to completely avoid alcohol and other substances, setting him apart from many political figures who drank socially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has spoken about Fred\u2019s influence for years, crediting him as the reason he\u2019s sober. \u201cHe had a very tough life because of alcohol,\u201d Trump said in 2018. \u201cI learned because of Fred.\u201d His brother\u2019s story became a personal cautionary tale\u2014one that shaped Trump\u2019s lifelong stance on sobriety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has never touched alcohol in his life, and the reason goes back to his older brother, Fred Trump Jr. During an interview on Theo Von\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":317,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}