Trump pardon list omits ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who also known as Joe Exotic (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

One name missing in US president Donald Trump’s flurry of pardons is Tiger King Joe Exotic.

His team was so confident in a pardon that they had readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk away the zookeeper-turned-reality-TV-star, who is now serving a 22-year federal prison sentence in Texas.