One of the daughters of late golf legend Arnold Palmer is calling Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitals “a poor choice of approaches” to honor his memory, adding that she was not upset by the comments.
‘There’s not much to say. I’m not really angry,” Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told The Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. “I think it was a bad choice to remember my father, but what are you going to do?”
On Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania — the town where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to play golf from his father — Trump kicked off his rally in the final weeks of the campaign with a detailed 12-minute story about Palmer, including an anecdote about what Palmer did. looked like in the showers.
“When he was showering with other pros, they came from there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,” Trump said, laughing. “I had to say. We have women here who are very educated, but they used to think of Arnold as a man.”
Wears said she had only had temporary encounters with Trump at events decades ago, but that her father and the Republican presidential candidate, an avid golfer who owns golf courses around the world, shared a particular kinship over “an interest in golf and a love for golf’. .”
Sometimes emotional as she recalls conversations with her father, who died in 2016 at the age of 87, Wears said her father “believed in the Republican Party.”
“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about what my dad would say about something or what’s happening,” Wears said. “We didn’t always agree on things, but he was a quintessential American who fervently believed in this country even as he questioned its direction.”
When asked three times on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday what he thought of Trump’s comments, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declined to answer.
“I’ll discuss it, I’ll answer it,” Johnson said, without ever answering the question. ‘Don’t say it again. We don’t have to say it. I understand.”
Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H., told ABC’s “This Week” that he didn’t like Trump’s comments, including one in which he used profanity to refer to Vice President Kamala Harris, but that the former president’s comments did not would influence his voters one way or another.
“I mean, it’s just par for the course. He speaks in hyperbole. He stirs up his audience,” Sununu said.
But Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who is backing Harris, argued that the comments show how little Trump focuses on important issues, which will turn off voters.
“I think there are a lot of Americans, whether you’re conservative, whether you’re progressive or moderate, who say, ‘Really?’” Sanders said on CNN. “We have major problems facing this country. Is this the kind of person we want as president of the United States?
Wears, who declined to say who she would vote for in the Nov. 5 election, said she would cast her vote in North Carolina, a crucial state, and described herself as an “unaffiliated” voter.
“The people of Western Pennsylvania are very smart people, they work very hard and they will make their own decisions, just like I will make my own decisions, using all the history and awareness that I have,” Wears said of the upcoming elections. “And I hope people will vote with that.”
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