Arnold Palmer's daughter reacts to Trump's story about her father's masculinity

The daughter of golf legend Arnold Palmer said she was “not really upset” about the salacious story former President Donald Trump told about her father at a rally in his hometown on Saturday.

That's what Peg Palmer Wears, the golf icon's 68-year-old daughter, said Associated Press “There's not much to say” about the story the Republican candidate chose to open his rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which centered around Palmer's masculinity.

“This man was strong and tough,” Trump told the crowd in a stunning speech on Saturday. “And I refused to say it, but when he was showering with the other pros. When they came out of there, they said, 'Oh my God.' This is unbelievable.' I had to say it.”

“I think it was a bad choice to remember my father, but what are you going to do?” Wears asked the news outlet.

Palmer, a longtime Republican, died in September 2016, before Trump's first election victory. He played golf with other presidents including George HW Bush and Dwight Eisenhower – a man he looked up to as an ideal leader. The Washington Post reported after his death.

However, Wears had previously suggested that her father was less than enthusiastic about Trump's candidacy. In 2018, Palmer's daughter said in an interview with The Sports News that before his death he was “appalled by Trump’s lack of civility and what he began to see as Trump’s lack of character.”

While Wears was following the future president's campaign against Hillary Clinton, she said her father was irritated by the Republican nominee, “as if he couldn't believe the arrogance and rudeness of this man who was the nominee of the political party he was a part of.” believed.”