Arnold Palmer's Daughter Reacts to Donald Trump's Remark About Her Father's Genitalia

Mar. 15, 2025

Peg Palmer, her dad Arnold Palmer and Donald Trump.Photo:Kim Stepinsky/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP, Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Kim Stepinsky/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP, Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Arnold Palmer’s daughter is sharing her thoughts onDonald Trump’s unorthodox remarks about her father.

The former president brought up the late golf star — including calling him “one of the greatest golfers in the world” and commenting on his genitalia — as he held a campaign event at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa. (Palmer’s place of birth) on Friday, Oct. 19.

“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that with all due respect to women, and I love women,” Trump said during the appearance. “But this guy, this is a guy [who] was all man. This man was strong, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’ "

“There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” the 68-year-old told the AP. “I think it was a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”

Trump at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Oct. 20, and Palmer back in 1982.Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images, Allsport/Getty Images

Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images, Allsport/Getty Images

Palmerdied in 2016 at age 87. Wears said that Trump and her dad shared “an interest in golf and a love of golf” but only met a few times in passing.

“We didn’t always agree on things,” she added, “but he was a quintessential American who believed fervently in this country, even when he questioned its direction.”

Also at his rally on Friday, Trump said that Palmer knew how to “electrify” a crowd.

“If I had him here right now with me, this crowd would be going absolutely crazy,” the former president said of the golfer. “They’d say ‘Trump, get off the stage, we want Arnold Palmer to speak.’ He would electrify a crowd, and he would go for shots that nobody else would do. And they were risky as hell, sometimes it wouldn’t work out, but usually it did with him.”

“Trump was talking. And my dad made a sound of disgust — like ‘uck’ or ‘ugg’ — like he couldn’t believe the arrogance and crudeness of this man who was the nominee of the political party that he believed in,” she said of her father, who was previously friendly with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“Then he said, ‘He’s not as smart as we thought he was,’ and walked out of the room. What would my dad think of Donald Trump today? I think he’d cringe,” she continued.

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Palmer’s daughter added at the time that her dad would join Trump for charity fundraisers and events at his golf courses, but once he made the jump to politics, Palmer’s opinion of him changed.

Elsewhere in his speech on Friday, Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Trump senior adviser Jason Miller told reporters before the speech that Trump planned to preview his closing argument against Harris and “start to get into that framing,” theAPreported.

“You have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore, we can’t stand you anymore, you’re a s— vice president,” Trump said to cheers, per AP. “The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here.”

source: people.com