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

Arnold Palmer's daughter is sharing her thoughts on Donald 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.' "

Speaking with the Associated Press on Sunday, Palmer's daughter Peg Palmer Wears said she wasn't "upset" by Trump's comments, but called them "a poor choice of approaches" to honoring her father's memory.

"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?"

Palmer died 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.

"A day doesn't go by that I don’t think about what my father would say about something or what’s happening," Wears said, adding that Palmer "believed in the Republican Party."

"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."

Speaking with The Sporting News in 2018, as reported by The Daily Beast, Wears told the outlet that Palmer once "made a sound of disgust" when he saw Trump on TV.

"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.

"My dad had no patience for people who demean other people in public," she said at the time. "He had no patience for people who are dishonest and cheat. My dad was disciplined. He wanted to be a good role model. He was appalled by Trump’s lack of civility and what he began to see as Trump’s lack of character."

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," the AP reported.

"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."