Former President Donald Trump provided some parenting advice in his latest interview, highlighting the importance of keeping children away from alcohol and drugs — just as President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is in the headlines discussing his battles with addiction.
Trump frequently raised Hunter’s well-documented troubles during the last election campaign, and his comments will be taken as a thinly veiled swipe at the new first family.
In Thursday’s interview with Gina Loudon, the co-chairwoman of Women for Trump 2020, he was served a series of softball questions, including how he had managed to raise such fine children.
“I think you have to give them a lot of attention,” he said. “I always, also, you can have good children, but if they start with the drugs, alcohol, cigarettes … I’ve said it for years to them. So far, it’s had a pretty good impact.”
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Trump, 74, has five children from three marriages. Don Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump all appeared on the campaign trail last year.
He was also spotted this week playing golf with his youngest son Barron, 15, and one of his grandchildren, Kai, 13, at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The former president has frequently spoken of his pain at the way his brother Fred died from alcoholism at the age of 42 and is a lifetime teetotaler.
Trump added, “I’ve seen some really good children go wild on drugs and alcohol, and then, that’s a different ballgame.”
Hunter Biden’s memoir Beautiful Things, detailing his problems with drink and drugs, is due to be published next week.
“I’m a 51-year-old father who helped raise three beautiful daughters,” he writes in the prologue.
“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles. I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.
“In the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself.”
The president’s son will appear on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss his book this weekend.
Trump also used the telephone interview with Real America’s Voice to criticize Facebook for removing another recent interview with daughter-in-law Lara Trump. The social media giant said the move was in line with its decision to block Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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Trump said, “What is happening in this country, nobody ever thought it would happen. It’s total censorship.”
