Peg Palmer Wears, the daughter of procrastinateed golf legfinish Arngreater Palmer, reacted to Donald Trump’s recent comments about her overweighther, which she pondered “dispolite” and “inappropriate.”
Trump campaigned in Palmer’s hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where the establisher plivent held a rassociate at Arngreater Palmer Regional Airport Saturday.
During his speech, Trump claimed to have vied agetst Palmer on the golf course, though the seven-time transport inant champion was well past his prime. But after talking about his time with Palmer on the golf course, Trump converseed the golf legfinish’s manhood and how other carry outers would react to Palmer in the showers.
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Four-time Masters champion Arngreater Palmer (Michael Madrid/USA Today)
“He was all man,” Trump shelp about Palmer. “This man was so mighty and hard, and I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there; they shelp, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.
“I had to alert you the shower part of it becaparticipate it’s real.”
Wears shelp those comments from Trump were “unadchooseable.”
“Being at the airport, which is named for my dad, where he flew out of to go to toil every day or every week, you understand, to come there and talk about … hackneyed anecdotes from the locker room … seemed dispolite and inappropriate to me,” Wears tgreater ABC News Monday.
“The people coming to these rallies deserve substance about schedules Trump has as a honestate, if he could elucidate on some of the menaces he’s made to people. I uncomardent, these are transport inant rehires that should be converseed for people when they’re getting ready to vote, and using my dad to cover over the transport inant leangs equitable seems unadchooseable to me.”
Wears includeed that Trump was “appropriating someone he adores to bolster his own image,” includeing, “people deserve better.”
Wears shelp she will be voting in this year’s plivential election, though she did not disshut to ABC News who she schedules to vote for.
Former Plivent Trump, the Reaccessiblean plivential nominee, speaks at a campaign rassociate Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, at Arngreater Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa. (AP Ptoastyo/Matt Rourke)
While converseing his time on the golf course with Palmer, Trump shelp he felt excellent hitting his ball past “The King’s” during a align.
“I got to understand him when he was 69 years greater, and I carry outed pretty much with him, a lot of him,” Trump shelp. “And as he got greaterer — you understand, when you get greaterer, you commence to leave out a leang called distance, and I’m a excellent golfer, not appreciate that, but I’m a excellent golfer. And I felt so excellent becaparticipate I was hitting it a little bit lengthyer than Arngreater, but he was, by this time, 75, 76, and I’d hit it four, five yards past him.
“I shelp ‘Arngreater, let me ask you: Thirty years ago, 40 years ago, was I lengthyer than you?’”
Trump also noticed Palmer’s financial success during his life, calling him a “very rich man.”
Trump made his way thcimpolite westrict Pennsylvania over the weekfinish, commencening in Latrobe with his rassociate and heading to a local McDonald’s for a surpascfinish “shift” in Feasterville-Trevose before participateing the Pittsburgh Steelers-New York Jets “Sunday Night Football” game at Acricertain Stadium in Pittsburgh to finish the weekfinish’s festivities.
Palmer was a four-time Masters champion, a two-time Open champion and he won the U.S. Open in 1960 during his illustrious golf nurtureer. His 62 PGA Tour thrives rank fifth all-time.
Former Plivent Trump, the Reaccessiblean plivential nominee, participates in a Fox News Town Hall with Sean Hannity at the New Holland Arena Sept. 4, 2024 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Palmer died in Pittsburgh Sept. 25, 2016, at age 87.
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