It\u2019s no secret that a job like being the president or the leader of a nation is a difficult one, so it would make sense that presidents are advised to tone it down on the drinking. US president Donald Trump doesn\u2019t drink alcohol. In fact, he has allegedly never had it, and he has spoken out about the reason why that is.<\/p>\n
Drinking alcohol is certainly not for everyone and it\u2019s especially worrying when leaders have one too many glasses. As an example, Richard Nixon had allegedly ordered a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea while drunk. This was supposedly a response to a US spy plane being shot down in 1969.<\/p>\n
Although Nixon\u2019s aides had been given an order by their commander in chief, they thankfully decided not to act on it and instead waited for him to have sobered up the next morning. Safe to say being drunk isn\u2019t the best shape to be in when you have that much power.<\/p>\n
The 1969 alleged incident was not the only time Nixon\u2019s behavior had been affected by having too much of the liquid drugs. He had also been too drunk to properly speak with the UK prime minister at the time, Ted Heath, over the phone in 1973.<\/p>\n
Nixon isn\u2019t the only one with stories about the dangers of intoxication. In 1995, then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin had reportedly gotten so drunk that he was found half naked by secret service agents. They found him trying to hail a taxi and asking for a pizza.<\/p>\n
While Trump isn\u2019t the first to be teetotal as the president, with former presidents like George W Bush and Jimmy Carter being sober while in office, he has said that he has always been that way, having never had any alcohol.<\/p>\n
The US president explained why he shies away from alcohol, telling The Washington Post in 2019 that his brother Fred had died at the age of 42 from a heart attack caused by his alcohol abuse. This convinced Trump not to come near the drug.<\/p>\n
Trump expressed regrets for \u201chaving put pressure on him [Fred]\u201d to give up being a pilot and handle the family business instead. He also explained that he had told his late older brother that he was \u201cwasting\u201d his time drinking alcohol.<\/p>\n
With alcohol having taken a toll on Fred\u2019s body, this was also part of the reason Trump was convinced not to drink. \u201cHe was so handsome, and I saw what alcohol did to him even physically\u2026 and that had an impact on me, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The returning US president admitted that he doesn\u2019t believe he\u2019d be around if he had had a tendency for drinking any alcohol. \u201cLet\u2019s say I started drinking, it\u2019s very possible I wouldn\u2019t be talking to you right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Instead of alcohol, Trump\u2019s drink of choice is a can of Diet Coke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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