Donald Trump says "Oh my God. That’s unbelievable," on pros' reaction to Arnold Palmer’s physique

In a 2024 Pennsylvania campaign speech, Donald Trump spent an extended stretch discussing the late golfer Arnold Palmer’s physique and masculinity, repeating purported reactions from other professional golfers to Palmer’s physical endowment. The Advocate situates that episode among Trump’s midterm-campaign comments praising male Republican candidates’ bodies, especially Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, whom Democrat Sherrod Brown defeated. It reports that the remarks drew on-air ridicule from a CNN host and that Republicans did not get the midterm victories they sought. The passage matters as an example of Trump using campaign appearances to comment on male politicians’ and athletes’ bodies, a pattern the article says did not deliver the electoral gains the GOP wanted.