Trump raises eyebrows with Arnold Palmer remarks

There is almost no chance anyone needed to mark a square on their “2024 Presidential Election” bingo cards after former President Donald Trump made an unprompted declaration regarding golf legend Arnold Palmer’s anatomy.

Trump delivered the assessment of the late golfing great while campaigning to retake the White House on Saturday evening during a 12-minute aside about Palmer given to an audience in his native Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,'” Trump proclaimed. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”

Palmer’s surviving family reacted to his commentary on Sunday. His daughter, 68-year-old Peg Palmer Wears, said she’s not “really upset” by Trump’s assertion but that he made a “poor choice of approaches to remembering my father.”

“But, what are you going to do?” she said.

The comment was given, the former President said, “in all due respect to women.”

Trump, during the same rally speech, described his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as a “(expletive) Vice President.”

“The worst. You’re the worst Vice President. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here,” he said.

His locker-room level campaign language drew swift backlash.

“We have major issues facing this country. Is this the kind of human being that we want as president of the United States?” Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN.

Harris said Trump’s language and his subject matter demonstrate that “he’s becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged.”

“The American people are seeing it, witnessing it in real time. The American people deserve better than someone who seems to be unstable,” she said.

The Harris-Walz campaign noted that Trump’s closing campaign argument seems to be “literal junk.”

Palmer died in 2016.