{"id":9335,"date":"2025-10-14T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:34:20","slug":"donald-trumps-lifelong-sobriety-and-the-brother-who-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9335","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Lifelong Sobriety and the Brother Who Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"451\">While many world leaders have enjoyed a drink \u2014 Winston Churchill with whiskey, Richard Nixon toasting late into the night \u2014 former President\u00a0<strong data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"351\">Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0has always abstained. His glass, as he puts it, has remained \u201cbone dry\u201d for nearly eight decades.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"710\">At 79, during a podcast with comedian\u00a0<strong data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"503\">Theo Von<\/strong>, Trump revealed the deeply personal reason behind his lifelong sobriety. It wasn\u2019t about preference, policy, or image \u2014 it was a\u00a0<strong data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"708\">promise to someone he deeply admired: his older brother, Fred Trump Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"1110\">Fred, charismatic and full of life, struggled with alcohol dependency and passed away at just 42. Reflecting on his brother\u2019s life, Trump said, \u201cI think if I had ever started drinking, I could\u2019ve been just like him.\u201d Fred\u2019s struggles became a lifelong lesson in\u00a0<strong data-start=\"974\" data-end=\"1032\">discipline, self-control, and the dangers of addiction<\/strong>, shaping not only Donald\u2019s choices but also the way he raised his children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many world leaders have enjoyed a drink \u2014 Winston Churchill with whiskey, Richard Nixon toasting late into the night \u2014 former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has always abstained. His glass, as he puts it, has remained \u201cbone dry\u201d for nearly eight decades. At 79, during a podcast with comedian\u00a0Theo Von, Trump revealed the deeply personal reason behind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9335\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Donald Trump\u2019s Lifelong Sobriety and the Brother Who Changed Everything&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9337,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}