Donald Trump has suffered an embarrassing blow in his bid to have a controversial former baseball player inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens lost out in Sunday’s vote, despite the president’s demand to “put Roger Clemens in The Baseball Hall of Fame, IMMEDIATELY!”

San Francisco Giants second baseman Jeff Kent made the cut instead, having comfortably received more than 75 percent of the votes needed from the Contemporary Era Committee. He is due to be inducted in Cooperstown, New York, on July 26.

With a career spanning 20 years, Clemens received fewer than five votes and will now be unable to appear on the ballot again until 2031, the Associated Press reports.

It comes three years after a disappointing result in 2022, Clemens’s final year elig

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