Arnold Palmer’s daughter calls Trump’s comments about her father ‘disrespectful’

Arnold Palmer’s daughter, Peg Palmer Wears, responded to former President Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about her late father, calling them “disrespectful,” “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.”

“To be at the airport, which is named after my father, where he flew from to go to work every day or every week, you know, to come there and talk about… trite anecdotes from the locker room… seemed disrespectful and inappropriate for me,” she told ABC News on Monday afternoon.

Not only was Arnold Palmer a renowned American golfer with a popular drink named after him, there is also a regional airport named after him in his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Trump campaigned at that airport on Saturday evening and kicked off the rally with a long-winded story about Palmer, who died in 2016, specifically referring to the golfer’s genitals.

“When he went to shower with the other pros, they came from there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,” Trump joked.

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Wears said Trump “appropriated someone he admires to enhance his own image,” and that “people deserve better.”

“The people who come to these rallies deserve substantive information about Trump’s plans as a candidate, if he could provide some clarification on some of the threats he has made against the people,” she continued. “I mean, these are important issues that need to be discussed for people as they get ready to vote, and it just seems unacceptable to me to use my father to gloss over the important things.”

Wears also confirmed to ABC News that she will vote in the presidential election, although she did not reveal which candidate she plans to vote for.

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Wears, an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina, plans to cast her vote from one of seven crucial battleground states that could impact the election.

According to the polling averages of 538, Trump leads in North Carolina by 0.8 points.

Kelsey Walsh, Lalee Ibssa and Soorin Kim of ABC News contributed to this report.

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