Damac removes Trump name from Dubai golf site

Golf legend Tiger Woods designs Trump World Golf Club in Dubai built by luxury real estate developer DAMAC Properties will creates a distinct and memorable golf course.

The Republican presidential frontrunner triggered an worldwide uproar with his comments in response to last week’s shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalised. A billboard once showing Trump golfing had been at Damac’s Akoya development, as well as an image of Trump’s daughter Ivanka. Various Trump signage has also been removed, including the gold letters that once read “Trump International Golf Course” across the gate house.

Earlier this year, his daughter and company’s executive vice president of development and acquisitions Ivanka Trump, told a Middle Eastern hotel trade publication that they’re eyeing the area for more business opportunities.

Gold letters spelling out “Trump International Golf Club”, affixed to a landscaped stone wall at the entrance to the project site, were also removed later in the day, according to the Reuters photographer. Trump said this ban was necessary to protect the US from Muslim extremism.

The latest statement by Trump, in which he called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.”, has fueled calls in the Gulf to cut business ties with him.

Donald Trump’s increasingly xenophobic and inflammatory comments against Muslims just cost him a chunk of change in the Middle East.

The Trump Organization has plans for two golf resorts in the Arab emirate of Dubai.

The Trump name was stripped off of a multi-million dollar golf course located on the outskirts of Dubai on Friday.

Dubai-based Lifestyle said it was pulling Trump-branded products from its chain of home decor stores across the region, because it “values and respects the sentiments of all its customers”.

Trump, the billionaire businessmen who is now derided across the world for his incendiary racial remarks, drew his first flak from Emirati business magnate Khalaf Al Habtoor, who has been a staunch supporter of Trump’s candidature.

FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally, in Las Vegas.

A spokesperson for Trump Towers was not available for comment.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said the call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.is “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”, while “Labour’s home office minister Jack Dromey called Trump a unsafe fool who should not be allowed within 1,000 miles of British shores”.