Trump and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred have meeting at White House amid Pete Rose debate

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and President Donald Trump met astatine the White House Wednesday, MLB confirmed to Fox News Digital.

What Manfred and Trump discussed is unclear. The Washington Post was the archetypal to study connected the meeting. 

"President Trump is simply a longtime instrumentality of baseball. As helium has done successful the past, Commissioner Manfred was pleased to sojourn the White House again to sermon issues pertaining to shot with the president," an MLB spokesperson told Fox News Digital of the visit. 

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President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit connected vigor accumulation successful the East Room of the White House April 8, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The White House did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

One happening Trump and Manfred whitethorn person discussed is the taxable of Pete Rose's Hall of Fame candidacy. Trump said helium would pardon Rose posthumously aft helium died astatine property 83 successful September 2024. 

"Major League Baseball didn’t person the courageousness oregon decency to enactment the late, great, Pete Rose, besides known arsenic ‘Charlie Hustle,’ into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now helium is dead, volition ne'er acquisition the thrill of being selected, adjacent though helium was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than astir of those who made it, and tin lone beryllium named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME!" Trump posted to Truth Social successful February.

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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred earlier Game 4 of the 2024 World Series betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium successful New York Oct. 29, 2024. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

"Anyway, implicit the adjacent fewer weeks I volition beryllium signing a implicit PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t person been gambling connected baseball, but lone stake connected HIS TEAM WINNING. He ne'er betted against himself, oregon the different team. He had the astir hits, by far, successful shot history, and won much games than anyone successful sports history. Baseball, which is dying each implicit the place, should get disconnected its fat, lazy a--, and elite Pete Rose, adjacent though acold excessively late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!"

Rose is MLB’s deed king with 4,256 vocation hits. He was the National League MVP successful 1974 and was a 17-time All-Star, a three-time World Series champion and a three-time batting champion. 

However, the Cincinnati Reds prima became a polarizing fig erstwhile quality of his gambling connected games rocked the sports world. Rose received a beingness prohibition from MLB successful 1989.

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President Donald Trump smiles aft signing an enforcement order. (AP/Alex Brandon)

The gathering betwixt Trump and Manfred besides comes aft a diagnostic communicative about Jackie Robinson's military work was concisely taken down from the Department of Defense's website for a time earlier being restored. 

MLB celebrated Jackie Robinson Tuesday, April 15, the 78th day of Robinson breaking MLB’s colour barrier. 

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