Talk about being the butt of the joke. HBO comedian Bill Maher actually conceded that his typical smart aleck prediction that President Donald Trump's tariffs would wreck the economy by this point was way off the mark.
Maher made his shocking concession during the July 28 edition of his Club Random podcast with guest and leftist YouTube star Bryan Tyler Cohen.
“I will always call it as I see it,” Maher proclaimed with a thin veneer of modesty. “I would have thought — and I got to own it — that these tariffs were going to f*cking sink this economy by this time and they didn’t.” Cohen agreed and answered with a rule of thumb, “I’ve learned this the hard way — not to make predictions about what’s going to happen because it’s really f*cking difficult to predict anything.”
Tell that to the egotistical media snobs and rent-an-expert braggarts still looking down their noses lecturing the plebeians about how Trump’s policies are supposedly going to send the American economy down the toilet.
"I remember I — along with probably most people — were saying at the beginning, ‘Oh, you know, by the Fourth of July,’ — somebody had a thing on how the economy was going to be tanked by then. And I was kind of like, ‘Well that seems right to me.’ But that didn’t happen,” Maher admitted with a nice helping of egg on his face. Of course, he still held out hope that his pessimistic prophecies would eventually pan out: “Now, it could happen tomorrow.” Good grief.
Cohen concluded that “if I was good at predicting things Hillary would have been the president in 2016 and I wouldn’t have sold my Netflix stock back in 2010, but here we are.”
The media writ large have been scrambling to make sense of why their crystal balls don’t seem to be working with the Trump economy. Axios even went as far as to try to flip the script by claiming that the U.S. “gets plenty” in the “Trump-dominated global economy” but “gives nothing in return.”
Ah, so the new narrative is that the U.S. is winning too much, eh? Got it.
