US President Donald Trump admitted that he does not drink alcohol because of a fear of alcohol addiction as his older brother Fred died of alcoholism in the 1980s.

Trump told The Washington Post that seeing his brother succumb to alcoholism has shaped his perspective. 

“He was so handsome, and I saw what alcohol did to him even physically . . . and that had an impact on me, too," President Trump noted. “Let’s say I started drinking, it’s very possible I wouldn’t be talking to you right now.”

After graduating from university, Fred Trump Jr. was building a pilot career at TWA, but his father insisted on running a family business.

“Perhaps it was my fault and perhaps my father’s fault for egging him on to business because he wasn’t good at it, because he didn’t like the business," Trump said.