President Donald Trump said he plans to give late baseball icon Pete Rose a “complete pardon” as he slammed Major League Baseball officials in a Saturday Truth Social post. “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. He added, Rose “will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME!” Rose, who died last year at 83, played for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos before managing the Reds. Rose was banned from the MLB in 1989 for gambling on baseball games as an active player and manager, and he served a five-month prison sentence for falsifying his tax records, a felony. Trump raged, “Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy a--, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!” Asked about Trump in 2021, Rose said he “would’ve voted for him” if he had voting privileges in Nevada.
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