Following baseball great Curt Schilling’s appearance on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday night, President Donald Trump voiced his support on Twitter for the former Boston Red Sox pitcher-turned-BlazeTV personality.

“Curt Schilling deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame,’ Trump tweeted about Schilling (pictured above left), one of his more prominent supporters.

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“Great record, especially when under pressure and when it mattered most.”

“Do what everyone in baseball knows is right!”

The president is acknowledging that the 2019 National Baseball Hall of Fame’s voting results will be revealed Tuesday — and he firmly believes Schilling’s accomplishments merit a spot in Cooperstown, New York.

Schilling’s career achievements certainly stack up well compared to other Hall of Fame pitchers. He has more strikeouts — excluding pitchers who used performance-enhancing drugs. He earned three World Series rings and was among the top pitchers in playoff history (11-2, 2.23 ERA in 19 career postseason starts).

However, Schilling’s been kept out of the Hall of Fame due to his conservative beliefs. Members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), some of whom are openly left-leaning, cite a “character clause” as the reason they’ve not voted for him because of the memes he’s shared: one critiquing transgender bathroom laws, another comparing the threat of radical Islam to that of the Nazis, and another of a shirt that joked about lynching journalists (he apologized for the last one).

Schilling, 52, also said on “Life, Liberty & Levin” that he believes his politics are keeping him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

During his career, Schilling raised more than $9 million for ALS research through his “Curt’s Pitch for ALS” charity; and he received the 2001 Roberto Clemente Award. The award is given to the player who “best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual’s contribution to his team,” says Major League Baseball’s official website.

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Although the results are not official until Tuesday, odds are Schilling again did not receive enough votes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

With 49.5 percent of the ballots publicly released Monday, Schilling was on 71.6 percent of those; players must be on at least 75 percent of the voters’ ballots to be inducted.

Last year, Schilling appeared on 51.2 percent of BBWAA members’ ballots.

Check out part of Curt Schilling’s appearance on “Life, Liberty & Levin” below:

Tom Joyce is a freelance writer from the South Shore of Massachusetts. He covers sports, pop culture, and politics and has contributed to The Federalist, Newsday, and other outlets.