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R.G. Camara's avatar

I've long believed that Biden was a drunk, but that car accident that killed his first wife and gave Hunter head injuries scared Joe to be publicly sober.

Anyway, Trump's teetotaling was something that made him popular amongst young men, or at least became something his young male supporters liked and emulated about him. Unlike Pence and Romney (dry for religious reasons) and W. (dry due to religion and his admitted alcoholism), Trump never drank because he saw it only slowed him down and he saw how others in the business world would get drunk and screw up-- for Trump, not drinking was a business strategy.

In The Art of the Deal, Trump told a story about meeting some established Manhattan real estate guys when he was young and how they all went out and had dinner and made a deal and then they got drunk at dinner. The next day he called and neither remembered making the deal, so Trump had to take them out again for dinner to get the deal in place. Although miffed, it impressed upon Trump that he could leap well ahead of these guys if he just didn't drink, because they would forget half their business deals with enough wine.

Trump liked winning, and if winning meant no drinking, he didn't drink. Plain and simple.

And it worked.

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Bill Price's avatar

I don't believe for a minute that Walz has been on the wagon since his DUI. Just look at him for God's sake.

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