The wild outlandish Joe Exotic who has become the meme dream of our collective existence from the highly-watched ‘Tiger King’ docuseries on Netflix, made another ridiculous move this week: he is going to seek a pardon for his crimes by President Trump. TMZ reports this week that Exotic’s legal team recently covered a bus in a giant decal asking the President to do just that, and they are rolling out some other part of the plan in the days to come.
It’s not as silly as it sounds. Consequence of Sound reported that Trump stated he would “take a look” at the situation a few weeks ago.
Exotic is the former candidate for Oklahoma governor who ran a shady zoo for tigers, bred the exotic animals for similar exhibitors, and was convicted of plotting to pay a man to murder a rival animal exhibitor Carol Baskin in Tampa. Yeah, that’s the short and not-so-sweet version of it that you could catch up on the show which has sparked network TV specials and popular podcasts.
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As if that was not enough news on the weirdest man of 2020, Nicolas Cage (who is quite the character off camera in his own right) is set to play Exotic in a scripted series for CBS Television that has been in the works since well before the Netflix series premiered. It’s not the only scripted TV take on ‘Tiger King’ as a SNL cast member is set to do version where she portrays Carol Baskin. Read more on that here.
