Donald Trump Jr. drunkenly wet the bed so much in college they called him ‘Diaper Don’

The final stretch of the election prompted Miami-based DJ Scott Melker to share a personal account of a brief, but very telling encounter he witnessed between Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump, Jr.

“As many of you know, I attended the University of Pennsylvania with Donald Trump Jr,” Melker wrote on his Facebook page. “I feel compelled to share this story before the election, in the hopes that it will shed a bit of light on the kind of person that Donald Trump is, and the kind of son that he raised.”

From Melker’s Facebook:

Donald Jr. was a drunk in college. Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around campus falling over or passing out in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking. He absolutely despised his father, and hated the attention that his last name afforded him. His nickname was “Diaper Don,” because of his tendency to fall asleep drunk in other people’s beds and urinate. I always felt terrible for him.

Here’s the post in its entirety:

Sure, this is just a rumor — and comments in Melker’s thread support his characterization of Trump, Jr. — but it’s believable for other reasons. The GOP nominee was described by Ivana Trump as being an absentee father and he himself has even bragged about never having changed a diaper. And, in 2004, a New York Magazine profile from 2004 that Trump, Jr. had “a reputation for getting into drunken, do-you-have-any-idea-who-I-am? fights” while an undergrad at Wharton. “To be fairly candid,” Trump Jr. told the magazine. “I used to drink a lot and party pretty hard, and it wasn’t something that I was particularly good at. I mean, I was good at it, but I couldn’t do it in moderation.”

The Facebook post also intimates that physical abuse from his father may have been at the root of Trump, Jr’s. alcoholism. Melker wrote that he was hanging out in the freshman dorm when the future GOP presidential nominee showed up to take his son to a baseball game.”There were quite a few students standing around watching, trying to catch a glimpse of the famed real estate magnate,” according to Melker. “Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates. He simply said ‘put on a suit and meet me outside,’ and closed the door.”

This is not the first account of physical violence from Trump. In the divorce deposition where Ivana claimed that her ex-husband raped her, the court document said that he began the assault by ripping out “fistfuls of hair from her scalp.” Ivana’s allegation was published in Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.” (The title has been long out of print, and the publisher is too scared to print another run for fear of litigation from Trump.)

Trump, Jr. said he got sober in 2002, so good for him, and, in fairness, if my dad was an emotionally absent, abusive, serial pussy-grabber, I’d probably drink too.

[h/t @yashar | Photo: Getty]