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 Trump triggered an international uproar when he made his comments
in response to last week's deadly shootings in California by two
Muslims who authorities said were radicalised.
DAMAC Properties had initially said it would stand by Trump, even as
another of the billionaire's Middle East partners, the Lifestyle
chain of department stores, halted sales of his "Trump Home" line on
Wednesday in protest at his comments.
A spokesman for DAMAC Properties, Niall McLoughlin, declined to
comment on why Trump's image had been removed from a billboard
outside the project construction site, along with that of his
daughter, Ivanka Trump.
The AKOYA by DAMAC project will include a Trump-branded golf course,
gated island community and spa. Trump is also building a second golf
course, the Tiger Woods-designed Trump World Golf Club, at another
DAMAC property in Dubai, AKOYA Oxygen.
An advertising billboard outside the AKOYA by DAMAC development had
shown Trump in a red hat swinging a golf club against a backdrop of
a lush green golf course.
By Thursday, the image had gone, a Reuters photographer said. An
adjacent photo of Trump's daughter Ivanka, an executive vice
president for his Trump Organization firm, was also removed from the
billboard.
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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 on Thursday postponed a planned trip to Israel amid the global
backlash over his proposal. Israeli politicians and more than
370,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald
Trump from their countries.
(Reporting by Matt Smith; Writing by Katie Paul; Editing by Sami
Aboudi and Raissa Kasolowsky)
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