'WHAT A SHAME!': Trump Makes Late Night Pitch To 'PARDON' Pete Rose

The president declared that baseball has been "dying all over the place" as he revealed his plan to posthumously pardon the controversial player.

President Donald Trump took to social media late Friday to announce his plan to give a “complete PARDON” to Pete Rose following the disgraced baseball player’s death last year.

The president wrote on his Truth Social platform that he looks to pardon Rose “over the next few weeks” although such a move wouldn’t directly impact the controversial player’s ban from Major League Baseball.

Rose, who died in September, was banned from the league in 1989 after he gambled on the Cincinnati Reds, a team he both managed and played for. He was then deemed ineligible to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

Rose was sentenced to five months in federal prison in 1990 for filing false income tax returns.

“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,” wrote Trump of the league, which — unlike the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and the Era Committees — isn’t part of the hall’s voting process.