'Poor choice': Golfer's daughter reacts to Trump's vulgar remark about her dad's genitalia
Donald Trump on Saturday began his Pennsylvania rally with a long-winded story about former professional golfer Arnold Palmer, and included a detail that became the subject of mockery online: the purported size of the man's genitalia. Now, Palmer's daughter is weighing in.
Trump spoke for more than 10 minutes at the start of his rally about Palmer, who died in 2016. Trump has in the past been accused of hyping up his relationship with Palmer, who reportedly thought Trump was "disgusting."
"Arnold Palmer was all man and I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women, but this guy -- this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough," the former president said at one point, adding, "And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God. That's unbelievable.’ I had to say it. We have women who are highly sophisticated here..."
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Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told the Associated Press on Sunday what she thought of the vulgar diatribe.
“There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” Wears told The Associated Press in an interview this weekend. “I think it was a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”
According to the AP, "Wears said that she had only had passing encounters with Trump at functions decades ago but that her father and the GOP presidential nominee, an avid golfer who owns courses around the world, primarily shared a kinship over 'an interest in golf and a love of golf.'"
It continued:
"Emotional at times as she recalled conversations with her father, who died in 2016 at 87, Wears said her father 'believed in the Republican Party.'"
The outlet further reported:
“A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about what my father would say about something or what’s happening,” Wears said. “We didn’t always agree on things, but he was a quintessential American who believed fervently in this country, even when he questioned its direction.”