Name: Theo and Donald Trump Talk About Addiction and Sobriety
Uploaded: 2024-08-21T20:37:58.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Donald Trump Talk About Addiction and Sobriety' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Donald Trump Talk About Addiction and Sobriety' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-21. Transcript available.

yeah yeah i noticed at the events you don't drink and you don't drink or smoke
right i don't drink
or smoke you never have no i never have i've uh i had a great uh brother who
taught me a lesson
don't drink don't drink and he said don't smoke he smoked and he drank and he
was a great guy he was
a handsome very handsome guy is he older he was older quite a bit older yeah
and uh he would uh
he had a problem with alcohol and smoke a lot but you know i tell people no
drugs no drinking no
cigarettes yeah i tell that to my kids all the time i'd say no drugs no
drinking no smoke and uh
it was he had well he'd always tell me he'd say never so he was uh you know
really old enough
that you would look up to somebody and i'd look up to him anyway did you admire
him
yeah i admired a lot so much about him he had so much going he had to look uh
he had an unbelievable
personality like a an incredible personality what was his name donald his name
was fred fred trump
and he had a problem with alcohol he got addicted to it because it's and you
know they say alcohol is
tougher than drugs to get off of i've i don't know if you've ever heard that i
was in recovery actually
i've been in i've been in recovery so like most of the last 10 years from
alcohol from drugs and alcohol
drugs which which is worse for me drugs is the problem but if i have a drink
then i
it's tougher for me to prevent myself from getting it sets off a chain yeah but
is which is harder to
quit i've heard alcohol is harder to quit than drugs if that makes sense i don't
know oh yeah i mean
i can only imagine because it's probably more readily available more readily
well and it's social
and you're sitting and everyone's drinking and all yeah you go to a dinner and
everybody's eating like
you know xanaxes or something you know for appetizers usually people are having
like a mint you know a
mint julep or something a little fancier negroni i just learned about right um
but yeah so you have a
problem with that yeah oh wow i've had it's been in my family my family it's
like um yeah can you can
you stay away from it yeah i've done a good job i mean how long have you been
off i go to recovery
meetings i've been off most recently two a little over two years do you ever go
back on yeah i've had
stents where i go back on and um and and you don't control it uh it's tough it
gets it goes downhill
pretty quick so you think it's going to be you think you're controlling it oh
and then you're damn yeah
you're doing go-kart and racing with hookers and stuff it gets bad just not to
do it right
right so then in the end you're like i have to not do it did you see like with
your brother did you
could you see it or anything oh yeah man i was amazed because he he had so much
going and everything
going i think he probably it happened in college at a fraternity maybe or i don't
know somewhere along
the line it happened and all of a sudden you know this is not unique this is a
very common story
unfortunately but and then the family would see it and start to notice it and
uh it didn't get better
it didn't get better i was amazed you know he lived uh for so long in bad
conditions you know in in terms
of i was amazed that his body could hold out it held out and it had bad moments
and but his body was
unbelievably strong that it could that it could withstand this yeah it's a body
because it's so
resilient yeah do you remember the last time that you saw him or spent with him
i do and uh i'm sorry
to ask you about it yeah i know it's well you know the reason it's good talking
about it is it
might help other people if it helps one other person it's worth the
conversation we talk about
that stuff a lot on our on our podcast yeah yeah a lot of our audience uh
struggles or has struggled
with um alcoholism addiction intimacy disorders all types of stuff you know so
it's like a it's pretty
kind of normal conversation but um you know the interesting thing is and i tell
people so i never
had a cigarette and i've never had a glass of alcohol and my brother was
incredible he would tell me
because he knew he had a problem and he'd say don't ever drink don't ever smoke
he'd always add
smoking because he did smoke a lot which is you know not very healthy but he'd
say don't ever drink
don't ever drink he'd tell me every time i said don't ever drink because he
knew he had this yeah
addiction and i never had a glass of alcohol never ever did i have a glass of
alcohol because of him
and i would say that if i did drink i could you know conceivably be the type of
personality that
would have yeah like you that would have a problem but i never had and and the
only thing i say to
people is if too late for the people that you're talking about but if you don't
drink you don't miss
it i mean i i don't even think about alcohol or right it's not a part of your
world i don't think
about cigarettes i don't think about any of that if you if you don't take drugs
or if you don't have
alcohol it's real easy not to drink it it's one i had a friend who uh went to
the wharton school of
finance with me he was a very smart guy where is it wharton school that's in philadelphia
that's it
at yeah rocky right and it's a great great school great business school and uh
it's part of the
university of pennsylvania the business school it's nice down there yeah my
friend's brother went there
something well then he was smart because it's a great school and um but this
this person that i met
he hated the taste of scotch he hated it couldn't stand it but he insisted on
having it because he
wanted he felt it was important to be able to drink i said no just don't drink
he said you know to be
successful in business you have to sort of interact and you have to drink and i
said don't do it anyway he
became an unbelievable alcoholic uncontrollable alcoholic oh i think you're
like one of the best
yeah and he died he was a you know he but he hated the taste of scotch and then
he couldn't live
without it literally well i think i noticed a lot of like in the recovery rooms
and stuff it's a lot of
people that have they're missing something inside of them and so they could be
they take on like you
know so they want to try and fill it up with something else yeah um yeah do you
remember the last time you
spent with your brother i do and he'd have periods where he'd get sick very
sick and we thought we'd lose
him or we lost him then he'd get better and that happened five or six times i
mean well you thought you
lost him and then he got better and it was amazing i mean he was you know
certainly very strong in that
sense and i just tell people it's it's so tragic don't drink just don't drink
yeah and you're not
going to have a problem like even you if you didn't drink you would never but
you probably maybe wouldn't
be successful like you are you know it's part of your your story it's helped me
a lot yeah yeah because i
don't know what would happen probably i think it's just too risky um it is what's
something that you
miss about him or like that yeah like what's something that you miss about him
fred well he was
wise in a sense i mean think of it he's got this problem and it was very
important for him to convey
to me not to have this problem and i couldn't have been successful if i had
that problem yeah if i had
that problem and and i think maybe i'm a personality type where i could have
had the problem if i drank
but if you don't drink you're never gonna have it i mean i don't miss when i
see somebody light up a
cigarette and just they're in heaven uh i don't miss that at all it's weird it's
so nate it's very
native american isn't it crazy bizarre and you know i think sometimes our older
brothers they kind of
like they take the speed bumps for us like as younger brothers so that we don't
have to you know
what i'm saying does that you know what i'm talking about like my brother went
through a lot of stuff
so that i didn't have to go through it and then i get to see him and learn is
he okay now yeah he's doing
great now yeah he's doing great now but it's just it's like yeah that's one of
the blessings i think
of having an older brother well you can learn through history too whether even
if it's not a
brother it's by watching other people i mean you can see if you have a friend
who's an alcoholic or
even just by reading about people you can learn oh yeah it doesn't necessarily
have to be a brother
but in this case it was very personal it was a brother and uh i learned not to
drink and i learned
not to smoke cigarettes now i don't know that i would have smoked cigarettes i
probably would have drank i think
you know there's no reason not to drink but i had a reason because he told me
you know just that was
it don't do it yeah yeah that was kind of a blessing then huh yeah and where
did you did they um
did you guys ever do anything fun together like one nice memory that you have
with him
um he had a great talent for flying he was a pilot oh sweet and he loved it and
you ever fly with him
uh i did i flow with him he was a great pilot and a very talented other pilots
would come to his house
to study with him watch him and he was really talented that but ultimately he
had to give that
because of the alcohol he had to give that up which was a hard thing for him to
do but he had to give
that up yeah thank you for your time i can't believe that i got to be able to
sit down with you i'm grateful
to uh to dana white as well for setting this up and um and um yeah i just
appreciate uh you giving
me your time today donald trump thank you so much good luck with your situation
you're gonna do it
you beat it right oh yeah good luck with it thank you brother thank you very
much
Thank you.