‘You Might Think This Is a Joke but It’s Not’: ‘Tiger King’ Makes 2024 Announcement From Prison

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as “Joe Exotic” or the “Tiger King,” is hoping to make his way to the White House.

Maldonado-Passage posted a message to his campaign website for 2024.

“Thank you for your interest in my Campaign. Yes, I know I am in Federal Prison and you might think this is a joke but it’s not. It is my Constitutional right to do this even from here,” he wrote.

The message claims he has been put in prison “only because of the corruption in the Department of Justice, three felons that were told how to lie under oath to further this agenda, two corrupt Assistant U.S. Attorneys, two corrupt FBI Agents. and one corrupt Federal Wildlife Agent.”

According to Maldonado-Passage, the only thing he did “was put five very old, crippled tigers to sleep in the most humane way possible and it was approved by my USDA Inspector, so it’s time to get over it.”

He added, “PeTA kills thousands of animals a year. Carole has killed over 226 big cats and most of you eat some kind of animal everyday, so it’s time to move past this issue.”

Maldonado-Passage shared he is “here because I have a world platform to make these politicians listen to your and my concerns and give us some answers for once because all they do is lie to all of us, take our hard earned money calling it taxes, and give it away to foreign countries without them giving us anything back.”

He reassured Americans he does not “give a damn what color you are, where you came from, who you sleep with, if you have done drugs in your past, or if you have made a mistake and ended up in jail or put there because someone lied about you, It is time we all put the past in the past and move this campaign forward and scare the hell out of these people because you and I want some answers.”

Additionally, Maldonado-Passage praised Twitter CEO Elon Musk “and the ones that invented the internet, cell phones, and so on.”