Arnold Palmer’s daughter, Peg Palmer Wears, said former President Donald Trump’s comments about her late father were “disrespectful” and “unacceptable,” ABC News reported.
While campaigning last Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Trump described Palmer as "all man" and began talking about the golfer's genitalia before a crowd of men, women and children.
"When he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. They said, 'Oh my God. That's unbelievable,'" Trump told the crowd.
Wears said she disapproved of Trump’s “hackneyed anecdotes from the locker room,” telling ABC News his speech was “inappropriate” and a waste of voters’ time.
"The people coming to these rallies deserve substance about plans Trump has as a candidate, if he could elucidate on some of the threats he's made to people," Wears told ABC. "I mean, these are important issues that should be discussed for people when they're getting ready to vote, and using my dad to cover the important things just seems unacceptable to me."
Palmer, a self-described political conservative, died in 2016 shortly before Trump was elected. In 2018, Wears told Sporting News that her father would have been “appalled” by Trump.
"What would my dad think of Donald Trump today? I think he'd cringe," she said.
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