The daughter of golf legend Arnold Palmer said at a rally in her hometown on Saturday that she was “not really upset” by former President Donald Trump’s nasty story about her father.
said Beg Palmer Wiers, the golf icon’s 68-year-old daughter Associated Press The Republican nominee had “nothing to say” about the story surrounding Palmer’s manhood, which he chose to kick off his rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
“This man is strong and tough,” Trump told the crowd in a rambling speech on Saturday. “I refused to say it, but when he was in the shower with the other pros. They came out of there and said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’ I had to say.”
“I think it’s the wrong choice of approach to memorialize my father, but what are you going to do?” Worcester Newswire asked.
Palmer, a longtime Republican, died in September 2016, just before Trump’s first election victory. He played golf with other presidents, including George HW Bush and Dwight Eisenhower – whom he considered a great leader. The The Washington Post Announced after his death.
However, Ware previously indicated that her father was less enthusiastic about Trump’s candidacy. In 2018, Palmer’s daughter said in an interview sports news He was “appalled by Trump’s lack of civility and Trump’s lack of character” before his death.
Looking ahead to the future presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton, Wiers said her father was irritated by the Republican candidate, saying, “He couldn’t believe the arrogance and rudeness of this man who was the candidate of the political party he believed in.”