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President Donald Trump renewed his demand for Major League baseball to put former New York Yanke’s star Roger Clemens in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Trump proclaimed Clemens’ accolades and career statistics and maintained that the world champion never “took narcotics.” Clemens has rejected every view that he was taking steroids in his MLB career.
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President Donald Trump goes to the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Saturday 30 August 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
“I hope the Major League Baseball is getting ready to put Roger Clemens in the Hall of Fame, a place where he has heard for many years! 354 wins, number two in total strike exits, low -earned races, played in 6 World Series, 7 Cy Young Awards (a record, of 3!), Social media. “Never took drugs, there is no evidence that he was taking drugs, has steadfastly denied that he was taking drugs. Frankly, I think he has a big trial against baseball. If it was me, I would sue them.”
Trump did not want MLB to wait to deal with Clemens after he died and compared the situation with Pete Rose. The All-Time HITS leader was removed from MLB’s unjustified list after he died. Rose is now eligible to be introduced to Hall fame despite being previously banned by games on baseball games.
Roger Clemens is watching during the ninth round of the World Series in 2003 against Florida Marlins. (Robert Deutsch / USA Today Network)
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“Put Roger Clemens in the Hall of Fame, now – not as you did with Pete Rose when you waited until he was dead! It wasn’t the deal I made with the Commissioner, Rob Manfred many months before he died,” Trump added. “The deal was that he was immediately set up, but they waited and waited and waited and then set him up because of ‘death’. It shouldn’t have been because of death it should have been because of talent!
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Trump made a similar case earlier this month as the two golf together.
Clemens Valued Trump’s support.
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)
“I appreciate love! DT knows more than anyone the fake news that is out there,” Clemens wrote. “Everyone has their agendas … I played the game to change my family’s direction in general and win!”
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.
