“Size seems to be important to him”

The daughter of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer believes questions of size — be it crowd size or genitals — preoccupy Donald Trump, an observation spurred by the former president's vulgar comments about her father at a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend.

Speaking to a crowd in Latrobe, Trump launched into a 12-minute monologue about Palmer, who grew up in the city. His comments culminated in several obscene remarks about the size of the golfer's penis, recalling: “When he was showering with other professionals, they came out of there. They said, 'Oh my God.' This is unbelievable.'”

Chuckling, the former president continued: “I had to say that. We have women here who are very cultured, but they used to think of Arnold as a man.”

Palmer's daughter, Peg Palmer Wears, told Inside Edition in an interview that aired Monday night that her father didn't appreciate Trump's adult rhetoric.

“To talk about the showers and my dad's anatomy… I think Trump seems to be obsessed with those things, as well as crowd size,” she told the show. “From what I’ve seen, size seems important to him.”

Wears added: “I don't know what's going through his mind… I find most of his speeches pretty silly.”

The 68-year-old previously opened up about it Associated Press about her immediate reaction to the rally, saying in an interview published Sunday that she was “not really upset” about it. “I think it was a bad choice to remember my father, but what are you going to do?”

Wears said her father, who died in 2016 at age 87, “believed in the Republican Party.

“Not a day goes by that I don't think about what my father would say about something or what would happen,” she told the newspaper. “We didn’t always agree, but he was a true American who believed deeply in this country even as he questioned its direction.”

In 2018, Wears told The Sports News that her father was “appalled” by Trump’s behavior during his 2016 presidential campaign.

“He was appalled by Trump’s lack of civility and what he perceived as Trump’s lack of character,” she said.

To The Independent On Sunday, she added that Trump's appropriation of her father “seems … inappropriate in this context” and that there were other things about Palmer “that are better to focus on.”

Wears declined to tell the AP who she plans to vote for in next month's election, describing herself as an “independent” voter who will cast her ballot in North Carolina, a key battleground state. Trump won there in 2020.