Donald Trump is using Pete Rose to justify Maduro’s alleged military bet, and he’s not wrong.

No one in the world is more angry about the Pete Rose situation than Donald Trump. Many things irritate the president, and with good reason.

Intolerable media. Democracies. The fact that Iran does not seem to elect a new supreme leader. Rosie O’Donnell. The list is long, and extensive.

But the late, legendary Pete Rose was kicked out of baseball decades ago because of Trump’s daily gambling addiction. Why? I don’t know, but I respect you. Years ago when Rose died, Trump wrote the novel Social Truth telling MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to raise the couple and put Rose in the Hall of Fame. It was amazing.

Anyway, Trump and Rose are BACK in the news this week. That’s right. Belt in the middle.

MLB COMMISSIONER ROB MANFRED CALLS DECISION TO REMOVE PETE ROSE FROM OFFICIAL LIST ‘TOUGH’

The president was asked Thursday about the situation involving US Special Forces soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who was recently indicted by the DOJ for illegally using classified government information. What are you doing?

However, he is said to have placed a series of bets on the prediction market Polymarket that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will leave office on Jan. 31.

Van Dyke was involved in the planning and execution of Maduro’s kidnapping for about a month from December 8, 2025, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.

Thoughts, Mr.

Trump makes another strong point here

“Was he betting that they were going to get him, or that they weren’t going to get him? That’s like Pete Rose. Pete Rose, they kept him in the Hall of Fame by betting on his team. Now, if he bet against his team, that wouldn’t be good, but it’s betting on his team.

“I’ll look into it.”

First, Trump throwing in “I’ll look” at the end was good stuff. No never. Well, scratch that. He might. Also, boy does he LOVE Pete Rose. She is obsessed with Pete, to this day. If he can stop someone in our great military from becoming a modern-day Pete Rose, he will.

As for Van Dyke … I agree with Trump here. I’ve always thought it was silly to punish people who bet themselves, or, in this case, their country. What’s the big deal? That’s why I didn’t understand why Rose was hit so hard for betting on his Reds.

PETE ROSE’S RETURN HAS BASEBALL FANS IN FLASH: ‘WHAT A SHAME THEY WAITED UNTIL NOW’

Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds crouches on the field before a game against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium in Queens, NY, July 24, 1978. Rose extended his hitting streak to 37 games during the tournament, eventually reaching 44 games. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

As someone who bets, and loses, often, I can promise you that people tend to care more when they have money on something, or someone. Just last night, I bet my Miami Dolphins to select Reuben Bain in the first round of the NFL Draft. $5 to win $30. Not a bad little sprinkle.

Bain was there at 12 in Miami, and they passed him. I was angry. But my friend, I would have felt ALIVE.

Now, is that the same as a soldier betting on the capture of a brutal dictator? Well then. But imagine the absolute rush Van Dyke felt when he saw Maduro strapped to the back of that plane, blindfolded, wearing his Nike shorts, on his way back to the US of A?

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I can only imagine. I bet he ate the king that night.

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Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose and coach Tommy Helms watch the action during an exhibition game against Toronto at their spring training camp in Tampa, Fla., on March 31, 1987. (Ricky Rogers/The Tennessean/USA TODAY NETWORK)

However, Trump is not alone in this thinking. Several celebrities have come to Van Dyke’s defense, including OutKick star Anna Paulina Luna.

And if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that when Anna Paulina Luna is with you, things usually work out in the end.