Donald Trump talks about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia at Pennsylvania rally

With conscionable 2 and a fractional weeks near until the U.S. election, Donald Trump kicked disconnected a rally connected Saturday nighttime with a lengthy communicative astir the precocious Arnold Palmer and astatine 1 constituent adjacent praised the legendary golfer’s genitalia.

Trump was campaigning successful Latrobe, Pa., wherever Palmer was calved successful 1929 and learned to play from his father, who suffered from polio and was caput pro and greenskeeper astatine the section state club.

And portion galore who sojourn Latrobe talk astir the golfing great, Trump delivered a agelong and meandering monologue astir Palmer’s beingness communicative and adjacent threw successful a gag astir Palmer’s manhood.

“Arnold Palmer was each man, and I accidental that successful each owed respect to women — and I emotion women,” Trump said. “But this guy, this guy, this is simply a feline that was each man. This antheral was beardown and tough. And I garbage to accidental it, but erstwhile helium took showers with the different pros, they came retired of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.'”

He laughed earlier continuing: “I had to say. We person women that are highly blase here, but they utilized to look astatine Arnold arsenic a man.”

Despite the unusual prime of topic, 1 of Palmer’s daughters, Peg Palmer Wears, said she was unconcerned by the comments astir her dad.

“There’s thing overmuch to say. I’m not truly upset,” she told The Associated Press successful an interrogation connected Sunday. “I deliberation it was a mediocre prime of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”

The Harris campaign, however, rapidly seized connected the erstwhile president’s off-colour comments.

Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, asked connected X if anyone had “done a wellness check” connected Trump.

The Harris run besides highlighted the comments, sharing a clip from Fox News, wherever the big recapped Trump’s attraction to detail.

When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Speaker Mike Johnson astir wherefore Trump was talking astir Palmer’s genitals and whether that is the connection Trump wants to stock with voters successful the dwindling days of his campaign, Johnson dodged the question.

It wasn’t until helium was pressed connected Trump’s acuity, and again asked wherefore determination were comments astatine a rally astir Palmer’s manhood, that Johnson answered.

“Jake, you look to similar that enactment a lot,” Johnson said to Tapper.

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Tapper interjected, saying, “I don’t privation to beryllium talking astir this, right? Donald Trump is retired there…talking astir it.”

Johnson said helium would “address it” and proceeded to comparison however agelong helium suspects Trump and President Joe Biden could talk astatine comparable events.

“There’s lines successful a rally. When President Trump is astatine a rally, sometimes he’ll talk for 2 consecutive hours. You’re questioning his stamina, his intelligence acuity, Joe Biden couldn’t bash that for 5 minutes,” Johnson said.

Trump besides took clip successful Latrobe to escalate his idiosyncratic attacks connected Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, calling her a “s— vice president.”

“Bernie is extremist left, and this one, Kamala, is further left,” Trump told the cheering assemblage astatine Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. “And then, truthful you person to archer Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you conscionable can’t instrumentality it anymore. We can’t basal you. You’re a s— vice president.”

He past channeled his astir celebrated catchphrase from his days connected The Apprentice: “The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired! Get the hellhole retired of here!”

— With files from The Associated Press