The widow of Barry Goldwater, the late Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate whom Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE is often compared to, blasted the presumptive GOP nominee for planning to hold a fundraiser at the Goldwater estate.

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“Ugh or yuck is my response," Susan Goldwater Levine told The Washington Post on Thursday. "I think Barry would be appalled that his home was being used for that purpose. Barry would be appalled by Mr. Trump’s behavior — the unintelligent and unfiltered and crude communications style. And he’s shallow — so, so shallow.”

The sprawling Paradise Valley, Ariz., estate is now owned by Robert and Karen Hobbs, wealthy business and civic leaders in the area who agreed to host the fundraiser for Trump out of loyalty to the GOP.

“Barry was a good, solid Republican and was conservative," Robert Hobbs said. "I’m not sure that Donald Trump is conservative, but he’s who our nominee is.”

Hobbs also waved off Levine’s criticism of Trump, suggesting that her opinion carries less weight because she wasn’t Goldwater’s first wife.

“She was his second wife; she’s not his first wife," he said. "So she came along later in life. ... She’s entitled to her opinion, but Barry was a Republican and Donald Trump’s a Republican, and we’re going to support whoever the Republican nominee is."

Levine called Trump’s rhetoric during the campaign “crazy and inappropriate,” contrasting it with the career of her late husband, who was a "a genuine humanist and a straight-talking but fair-thinking gentleman."

"I can't believe we are doing this as a country," she said. "Barry was so true to his convictions and would never be issuing these shallow, crude, accusatory criticisms of the other party or the other person."