Will Trump Ever Free Joe Exotic?!
Exclusive Phone Call with Joe Exotic Who's Been Begging to Be Freed for Years!
“I’m not the right skin color for Kim Kardashian!”
When I saw Trump pardoned the Chrisleys, my first thought was: Joe Exotic is gonna lose it.
I was right.
The Tiger King himself jumped on Instagram, posting a screenshot of the news with a caption that read:
“This officially shows the justice system is still two-sided. You’re either rich and connected or you're poor and being trafficked by the system. #pardon #trump #justice
“I guess being innocent is not enough in America. They all admitted to perjury on world television but yet I’m left to die of cancer before I can get any help. Why is it the entire world can see the evidence but the White House refuses to acknowledge it?”
The next day, it got worse. Trump pardoned Larry Hoover. NBA YoungBoy. Another wave of headlines—and no Joe Exotic.
Joe posted again, this time sounding defeated:
“I don’t even know what to say anymore. #confused #tired”
Joe’s currently behind bars, battling cancer and a 22-year sentence he insists was built on lies. He’s spent years trying to get Donald Trump’s attention, believing he’s a political prisoner trapped by the Big Cat Public Safety Act—the very law his enemies once lobbied for.
“At least I was breeding for a reason. I supplied tigers to zoos in Thailand, Korea, Cambodia, so they didn’t have to take them out of the wild like the AZA does. People need to understand the AZA captures…all their animals are caught out in the wild and put in cages. I bred animals in captivity that didn’t know the wild to go to zoos all over the world so we didn’t have to take them out of the wild. And they passed a law and made it illegal and put me in prison,” Joe Exotic.
Phone Call with Joe Exotic, March 2024
Last winter, between January and March 2024, before he was giving interviews to podcasters, I spoke to Joe and his former manager, JT Barnett, several times. Joe laid it all out: why he believes he’s innocent, how he got “used and discarded” by Netflix, and how prison mail now mostly consists of unsolicited underwear pics from fans around the world.
At one point, I set up a call between Joe and someone I formally worked with. Joe called a day later and woke me up from a nap. I answered and recorded the call, but due to some disagreements in the workplace, it wasn’t ever posted. Out of respect, I held back and kept this call off the internet. Watching Joe catch scabies, battle cancer, bury both his parents, and now watch the president he supported hand out pardons to reality stars no one even likes? It’s past time. The world needs to hear Joe’s story—before it’s too late.
During this call, Joe breaks down why he’s convinced Carol Baskin really did that shit, why the animal abuse allegations are bullshit, and why he believes Kim Kardashian will never lift a finger to help him.
Full Phone Call, March 2024:
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Audio Version:
As you could probably tell during this brief conversation, Joe’s a hopeless romantic. Between all the prison horror stories, he kept circling back to heartbreak. Since our call, Joe has found love! He’s gotten married to a man named Jorge. Jorge has access to Joe’s Instagram account and has been holding live streams trying to get Donald Trump’s attention.
“HELP MY HUSBAND GET THIS MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT,” Joe writes.
Audio of Call:
If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, Joe’s got receipts. His website hosts a full-blown evidence archive—a digital shrine to his side of the story, the one Netflix never aired.
And in a surprising twist today, when asked whether he’d consider pardoning Diddy, Donald Trump told reporters he’d "certainly look at the facts."
“If I think someone is mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it won’t have any impact,” Trump said.
Here’s the kicker: after covering both men, I can say with confidence—Joe Exotic likes Trump a hell of a lot more than Diddy ever did. If Don really wants to pardon someone who’s been loyal, entertaining, and extremely online, all he needs to do is check Joe’s Instagram. It’s basically a campaign ad at this point.
And if even Carole Baskin wants Joe free, it might be time for Trump to consider.
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I did not know I needed Tiger King Part Two but I guess I did!! I was glued in to that entire call! Thank you so much for posting and you asked him so many great questions! I’m torn about him as well. I’m not sure how I feel about breeding caged tigers. But he makes compelling arguments for legal changes that may have unfairly targeted him while permitting his competitors to run business as usual. Excellent work here that deserved the light of day and is ever more timely with recent pardon activity.