Arnold Palmer’s daughter says Trump’s vulgar ramblings were ‘an unfortunate way to remember my dad’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.” open image in gallery Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks behind bulletproof glass during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024. “We’ve lost our sense of outrage in this country over just about everything, and I’m not sure that’s OK… There are other things about my dad that would be better to focus on.” Palmer transcended the game and took the sport itself to a higher level, fellow icon Jack Nicklaus said after “The King” died in September 2016. open image in gallery Arnold Palmer was one of professional golf’s most beloved players He answered every piece of fan mail he received, spending upward of $100,000 a year on return postage, and built the first golf course in modern China. Palmer’s daughter criticized Trump’s habit of name-checking admirable people as “a way of attaching those qualities to.” “Anybody who doesn’t see past that, I’m concerned about them,” Peggy Palmer told The Independent. Cori Britt, a former vice-president of Arnold Palmer Enterprises who first met the fabled golfer when he was 12, said on Sunday that Palmer had been “like a father to me.” He also said Trump hadn’t come up with anything particularly original onstage in Latrobe.