# Trump--Drunk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 16, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769 "2025-12-16T23:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/1 "2025-12-16T23:54:32Z")
You know, Trump keeps saying he doesn’t drink. But, he lies a lot. And he HAS been photographed, with what looks like a highball, and a Champaign flute. And according to his former chief of staff, he has an alcoholic’s personality. > **[Susie Wiles says Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-admin-vanity-fair-alcoholic-personality-b2885536.html)** > > The president is a teetotaler, telling Fox News in 2016 that he’s ‘never had a drink’ Looking back on his stumbling, his slurred words, and his inability to climb stairs…_ **could he** _\*\* be a drunk?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/2 "2025-12-17T00:09:47Z")
Very, very unlikely. His older brother **[drank himself into a very early grave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump_Jr.)** which clearly made a huge impression on Donald. One can have an alcoholic’s personality without actually being a drinker. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/3 "2025-12-17T00:50:06Z")
Trump agrees with Susie: [USA Today](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-susie-wiles-vanity-fair-alcoholics-personality/87797812007/) > [@](#): > > you see, I don’t drink alcohol," Trump [told the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/us-news/trump-stands-by-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles-after-bombshell-vanity-fair-interviews-admits-he-has-alcoholics-personality/). "So everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I have said that many times about myself, I do. It’s a very possessive personality,” Trump said. Unfortunately, the whole second half of the Wiles interviews article is behind a paywall. But it seems exceedingly strange. See: > **[Something Feels Very Off About the Trump Team’s Rapid Defense of Susie Wiles](https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/something-feels-very-off-about-the)** > > This is raising some serious eyebrows. Do folks think we need a separate thread for the Susie Wiles/Vanity Fair interview articles as a whole, or it this it? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/4 "2025-12-17T01:18:41Z")
I totally believe he doesn’t drink alcohol. I also believe he has popped pills (and Carrie Fisher claimed to see him snort cocaine), is extremely disturbed (due at least in part to an upbringing simultaneously abusive and enabling), and suffers from serious cognitive decline. But for him to avoid booze, sure. The man has been photographed for so many decades, if he drank we’d see it. There would be no reason for him to hide it. Heck, he’d probably brag about what a studly drinker he is. Drinking is considered a manly activity in our culture, and so he would have everything to gain by drinking and being open about it, as he tries to convey a hypermasculine persona. This is one of the few things, maybe the only thing in the world that I’m inclined to believe he’s telling the truth about. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/5 "2025-12-17T01:30:28Z")
I agree..I’ve seen people who pop pills roll a gait like he does. Watch him walk. It’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/6 "2025-12-17T01:50:41Z")
I think the most likely Trump addiction is to flattery. I was going to say that DJT is addicted to power, but today’s Vanity Fair article, and the reaction, almost makes me wonder who is more powerful, Susie or Donald (Putin being another possibility). So I stick with flattery. P.S. I was a influenced in this post by listening to the recent NPR Hidden Brain interview with psychiatrist Anna Lembke, who makes the case for there being a wide range of addictions other than to substances. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/7 "2025-12-17T01:54:53Z")
Trump’s a speed freak, if anything. All that sniffing and Look A Squirrel! ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/8 "2025-12-17T03:45:10Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Do folks think we need a separate thread for the Susie Wiles/Vanity Fair interview articles as a whole, or it this it? That thread is already in place. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/9 "2025-12-17T15:07:03Z")
Who else but a speed freak could ramble on endlessly about poisonous spiders in Peru or catapults in aircraft carriers? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/10 "2025-12-17T15:12:54Z")
I agree with the previous. He’s probably afraid of alcohol (wisely) due to what happened to his brother. But he’s extraordinarily stupid and would probably tell himself that pills aren’t an abuse risk, so he can take anything his personal “physician” prescribes. I’d guess he’s on the typical busy-person’s regimen of uppers to get started in the morning, with small bumps to keep him going as needed, to be shut off at bedtime with downers. So, dangerous and exhausting, but not fun. No wonder he’s so miserable. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/11 "2025-12-17T17:09:49Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Who else but a speed freak could ramble on endlessly about poisonous spiders in Peru or catapults in aircraft carriers? In my, um, friends’ experience, it’s often alcohol and cocaine that can bring on the verbal garbage salad. W admitted to having once been an alcoholic, and I recall some ascribing his personality to being a “dry drunk”. For all the parties trump went to in the 80s & 90s, Colombian and Bolivian “marching powder” (but not Peruvian, with all that venom spewing everywhere) was the stuff. I’ve said it before and believe it: In the first primary with Hilary he was coked out. So surely he’s got some cocktails of coke/speed/other amphetamines as well as steroids at his disposal. I reckon the percentages vary depending on the length of speech, whether he is speaking, standing, or sitting (been doing a lot of that lately). Only recently, I recall two instances of him falling asleep while someone else (one would hope) is speaking. He may have been doing that when the guy fainted, and he was unaware (or perhaps speaking while sitting), yet his only reaction was to stand up, smooth his jacket and tie, and pose for a photo (which uncropped still shows the medics to his left). tldr; He is definitely on some mix of narcotics and steroids. We will probably never know (I think the doctor-patient confidentiality is forever). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/12 "2025-12-17T17:17:49Z")
It’s very likely Trump is using drugs. I’ve thought this ever since he accused Biden of using drugs. With Trump that’s a pretty good indicator; he accuses the other guy of whatever it is he himself is doing. I don’t think Trump is drinking. If he were, he’d be accusing other people of being alcoholics. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-drunk/1025769/13 "2025-12-17T20:01:23Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > But, he lies a lot. Nominated: Understatement of the Century