Donald Trump Calls Pete Rose a ‘lazy ass’, and Promises a Full Pardon
President Donald Trump
Rips MLB for being a ‘lazy ass’ over Pete Rose’s HOF
… Promises Full Pardon
Published February 28, 2020 10:23 PM PST
Opening Day is still a few weeks away, but President
Donald Trump threw one high and tight Friday night … torching baseball for not enshrining the late legend Pete Rose in Cooperstown!POTUS, a big baseball fan, unloaded on MLB leadership and HOF voters, blasting commish
Rob Manfred (although not by name) and writers for keeping the all-time hit leader out of the Hall, even in death.“Major League Baseball didn’t have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as ‘Charlie Hustle,’ into the Baseball Hall of Fame,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most who made it, and can only be named posthumously. What a shame! The Cincinnati Reds legend was one of the greatest to grace a diamond. The Cincinnati Reds legend was one of the very greatest to grace a diamond.
47 continued, promising to wipe the slate clean for Rose … after he was convicted of failing to report income he earned from signing autographs, a felony, in 1990.
“Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only ever on HIS TEAM WINNING. He never wagered against his own team or himself. “
The President concluded his diatribe with a list of Pete’s achievements in his career and a warning to baseball.
He had by far the most hits in baseball history and won more matches than anyone else in sports history. “Battlefield baseball, which is in a state of decline, needs to get up off its fat and lazy arse, and elect Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame, even though it is far too late. “
Rose, who was a 17-time All-Star and 3x World Series Champion, as well as the National League’s Most Valuable Player
, was permanently banned from Major League Baseball after an investigation found he had wagered on baseball, which he later confessed to, making him ineligible for induction into the Hall.
