Donald Trump Is An Embarrassment To America

Republican and former President Donald Trump is increasingly making himself odious to normal people with his disgusting rhetoric in the last days of the campaign for president, and to me it is clearly an embarrassment to America.

Just in the past few days, Trump has called his opponent Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris “retarded” even though she is a lawyer who has been prosecutor and attorney general of California. If anyone is retarded between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, it is clearly Trump. But even to say that is disingenuous to regarded people. I should know. I had an uncle who was just a few years older than me who had Downs Syndrome. He was way more of a moral and caring person than Donald Trump is.

Yesterday, Trump spoke at the airport at Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which is named after PGA Tour legend Arnold Palmer, now deceased, because Latrobe was Arnie’s hometown. Trump made a crude remark about Palmer’s manhood that was so unnecessary and despicable for a man to say who is vying to be the U.S. president again. And the remark was upsetting to Arnold Palmer’s family. Of course, Arnold Palmer knew Donald Trump, and they had played golf together.

Arnold Palmer’s daughter, Peg Palmer Wears, followed up Trump’s remark about her dad that really puts Trump in his place where he belongs, which is not in White House. Peg told The Sporting News about the year 2016, in which Donald Trump was campaigning for the presidency, “My dad and I were at home in Latrobe. He died in September, so this was before the election. The television was on. 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. 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.

“My dad had no patience for people who demean other people in public. 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.”

That’s how I knew Arnold Palmer. As PGA Tour players, we played many rounds of golf together in PGA Tour tournaments. I had many conversations with Arnie otherwise, both on and off the golf course. He was not a guy whould speak derogatorily of other people and call them names, even in private, like Donald Trump constantly and arrogantly does in both private and public. But when it comes to winning or losing, I think Arnold Palmer would call Donald Trump what Trump hates most—a loser.