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President Donald Trump fired a rocket of a social media post in the world on Sunday.
Trump wrote about Truth Social that Roger Clemens, former New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox star, should be chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He also complained that Clemens was labeled as a steroid cheating despite never testing positive for performance -enhancing drugs.
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President Donald Trump listens to the foreground of a question from a reporter as a deputy White House, as chief of staff Taylor Budowich, from left, army secretary Dan Driscoll and Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth looking at in James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“I played golf yesterday with the big Roger Clemens and his son, Kacy. Roger Clemens was easily one of the few biggest pitchers of all time and won 354 matches, Cy Young Award seven times (a record, a lot!), And played in six World Series and won two!” Trump wrote. “He became number two to Nolan Ryan in most strikes, and he was to be in the baseball hall of fame, now! People think he was taking drugs but nothing was proven. He never tested positively, and Roger, right from the beginning, completely denies it. He was just as great before the erroneous charges were levels.
“This will be like Pete Rose, where after over 4,000 hits they would not put him in the Hall of Fame until I talked to the Commissioner, and he promised to do so, but it was essentially a promise that was not held because he only ‘opened it up’ when Pete died, and even then he said that Pete Rose only came into the mixture.
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New York Yankees Pitcher Roger Clemens throws a pitch in the first place of the second game in the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York. (Robert Deutsch/USA Today/USA Today Network)
Clemens was also a two-time world champion and 11-time all-star. He had 4,672 strikes in his career.
He was claimed in the Mitchell report for having used anabolic steroids during his career. He was also found not guilty of six counts of lying to Congress in 2012. He has maintained that he has never used steroids.
The claims have largely kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
He needed 70% of the votes from baseball writers to be written down in Cooperstown, but received only 61.6% of the votes and fell off the ballot. To eventually enter the Baseball Hall of Fame, he had to be selected through today’s game selection.
Former New York Yankees Pitcher Roger Clemens during the old hour day ceremony at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruz/Imag images)
Trump urged MLB to remove Pete Rose from the forbidden list after he admitted to betting on baseball. Eventually, MLB committed commissioner Rob Manfred, and he is now eligible for induction in the Hall of Fame.
