With simply two and a half weeks left till the U.S. election, Donald Trump kicked off a rally on Saturday evening with a prolonged story concerning the late Arnold Palmer and at one level even praised the legendary golfer’s genitalia.

Trump was campaigning in Latrobe, Pa., the place Palmer was born in 1929 and discovered to golf from his father, who suffered from polio and was head professional and greenskeeper on the native nation membership.

And whereas many who go to Latrobe communicate concerning the {golfing} nice, Trump delivered an extended and meandering monologue about Palmer’s life story and even threw in a joke about Palmer’s manhood.

“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to ladies — and I really like ladies,” Trump mentioned. “However this man, this man, this can be a man that was all man. This man was sturdy and hard. And I refuse to say it, however when he took showers with the opposite execs, they got here out of there, they mentioned, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’”

He laughed earlier than persevering with: “I needed to say. We’ve ladies which might be extremely refined right here, however they used to have a look at Arnold as a person.”

Regardless of the odd alternative of subject, certainly one of Palmer’s daughters, Peg Palmer Wears, mentioned she was unconcerned by the feedback about her dad.

“There’s nothing a lot to say. I’m probably not upset,” she advised The Related Press in an interview on Sunday. “I believe it was a poor alternative of approaches to remembering my father, however what are you going to do?”

The Harris marketing campaign, nevertheless, rapidly seized on the previous president’s off-colour feedback.

Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for the Harris marketing campaign, requested on X if anybody had “finished a wellness test” on Trump.

The Harris marketing campaign additionally highlighted the feedback, sharing a clip from Fox Information, the place the host recapped Trump’s consideration to element.

When CNN’s Jake Tapper requested Speaker Mike Johnson about why Trump was speaking about Palmer’s genitals and whether or not that’s the message Trump needs to share with voters within the dwindling days of his marketing campaign, Johnson dodged the query.

It wasn’t till he was pressed on Trump’s acuity, and once more requested why there have been feedback at a rally about Palmer’s manhood, that Johnson answered.

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“Jake, you appear to love that line rather a lot,” Johnson mentioned to Tapper.

Tapper interjected, saying, “I don’t need to be speaking about this, proper? Donald Trump is on the market…speaking about it.”

Johnson mentioned he would “deal with it” and proceeded to check how lengthy he suspects Trump and President Joe Biden might communicate at comparable occasions.

“There’s traces in a rally. When President Trump is at a rally, typically he’ll communicate for 2 straight hours. You’re questioning his stamina, his psychological acuity, Joe Biden couldn’t try this for 5 minutes,” Johnson mentioned.

Trump additionally took time in Latrobe to escalate his private assaults on Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, calling her a “s— vice chairman.”

“Bernie is radical left, and this one, Kamala, is additional left,” Trump advised the cheering crowd at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. “After which, so it’s a must to inform Kamala Harris that you just’ve had sufficient, that you just simply can’t take it anymore. We will’t stand you. You’re a s— vice chairman.”

He then channeled his most well-known catchphrase from his days on The Apprentice: “The worst. You’re the worst vice chairman. Kamala, you’re fired! Get the hell out of right here!”

— With information from The Related Press

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