For more than thirty years, Pete Rose has been on the outside of baseball looking in and, because reasons, he reached out to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday asking to be removed from the game’s ineligible list.
“There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everyone else,” Rose’s 20-page petition for reinstatement states, referencing the recent Houston Astros debacle. “No objective standard or categorization of the rules violations committed by Mr. Rose can distinguish his violations from those that have incurred substantially less severe penalties from Major League Baseball.”
And while a lot of the baseball world is clearly shrugging off Rose’s latest attempt to be un-banned…it’s clear one man is (still) going to bat for the man.
President Donald J. Trump.
Saturday, Trump took time out from his normal weekend tweetstorm to sing the praises of baseball’s all-time hit king.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1226251504086065152
For years, Trump has been championing Rose’s reinstatement and, more importantly, his induction into the Hall of Fame. Back in January 2017, the then president-elect even met with Manfred at Trump Tower.
Now, if Trump’s latest tweet about Rose looks familiar…there’s this from December 2015.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/676540954325708800
July 2015.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620914052374659072
April 2015.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/590508660809424896
Two months before that.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/565853788054228992
June 2014.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/478847600838201344
January 2014
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/422555587818565632
Those four separate times from December 2013.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/410812210839973889
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/410504039382536192
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/410424171747758080
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/410147857656598528
And all the rest of the times.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/367961726551343104
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/364919985916743681
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/364586300671664128
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/342255839308050433
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/291964364209156096
Whether you are a Trump supporter or not, one has to appreciate his tenacity and willingness to stick to his beliefs, right? That said, it is disappointing we never did get to see Rose on “The Celebrity Apprentice”.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/549538435934191617
And, yes, we all would’ve watched.
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