Barely two months after Trump's posts, Manfred reinstated Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and 15 others who had previously received permanent bans from baseball. As the players are dead, the move is largely symbolic, though it does open the door for Rose, Jackson and/or a few others to have a shot at making the Hall of Fame .

The Major League Baseball commissioner surprised the baseball world with his Pete Rose decision after pressure from the president.

Manfred said he "paid attention" to the advice Trump gave him on Rose, "but I had a lot of other people that were weighing in on the topic, as well.”