Daily Mail: Trump speaks emotionally of the brother he lost to alcoholism as he and Melania declare opioid addiction a 'national public health emergency'
* Trump proclaimed the crisis a 'national public health emergency' this afternoon, opening up additional federal resources for recovering addicts
* The president brought up his personal connection to addiction, reminding the audience about his brother Fred, who perished from alcoholism in his 40s
* First Lady Melania Trump spoke before him at the event that Ivanka Trump and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were also at
* Christie chairs Trump's opioid commission - the president called him to the stage and gave him a pen after signing a directive on the epidemic
* The president called it a 'national emergency' in August; a fact sheet provided to reporters on Thursday defined it as a 'Nationwide Public Health Emergency'
* White House says it will ask Congress for funding - but hasn't put forward a formal proposal yet and sidestepped questions about it today
* Trump claimed that his border wall will help with drug abuse: 'We need the wall. You know, part of the reason we need the wall is for drugs,' he said Wednesday
President Donald Trump proclaimed the opioid epidemic a 'national public health emergency' Thursday afternoon and made it personal by invoking his late brother Fred.
'We will defeat this opioid epidemic,' Trump declared. 'We are going to overcome addiction in America,' the president assured.
Trump made the crisis personal as he delivered remarks on the issue from the White House's East Room on Thursday with his wife Melania standing by.
Reflecting on the affliction that snuffed out 64,000 American lives last year, Trump brought up his brother Fred, who died of alcoholism when he was 43.
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WNU Editor: Now I know why President Trump avoids alcohol. One of my uncles was an alcoholic .... the pain he caused to the family .... his wife and children ....sighhh .....
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