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Bill Maher admits he was wrong about Trump on tariffs, doesn’t ‘see a country in a depression at all’
foxnews ^ | 07/28/2025 | Brian Flood

Posted on 07/28/2025 12:03:32 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Liberal comedian Bill Maher admitted that he was wrong about President Donald Trump on tariffs in a podcast posted Monday, and he’s "got to own it" because the economy is thriving.

Maher made the admission on his "Club Random" podcast as he explained that he’s always truthful with his audience during a conversation with progressive YouTube host Brian Tyler Cohen.

"Just to take an example, tariffs. Now I remember that I, along with probably most people, was saying at the beginning, ‘Oh, you know, by the 4th of July… the economy was going to be tanked by then,’ and I was kind of like, ‘Well, that seems right to me,’" Maher said.

"But, that didn’t happen," Maher said. "It could happen tomorrow. I’m just saying, that’s reality, so let’s work first from the reality of that, not from ‘I just hate Donald Trump,’ because that’s boring and doesn’t get us anywhere and leads you to dishonesty."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: about; admits; billmaher; brianflood; country; depression; doesnt; hesjustpartisantrash; maher; see; tariffs; trump; wrong
That must sting
1 posted on 07/28/2025 12:03:32 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What does Paul Krugman say?


2 posted on 07/28/2025 12:05:55 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

gotta respect someone who acknowledges they were wrong publicly...

I hope all the patience preachers are taking notes.

No one has been perp walked yet!!


3 posted on 07/28/2025 12:10:35 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: Paladin2

$0r0$ hasn’t told him what to say yet..................


4 posted on 07/28/2025 12:12:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Paladin2

And Vic Camber too?


5 posted on 07/28/2025 12:12:41 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have suppliers in the USA and overseas, and I can say without a doubt, American factories are booming.

Who is suffering? Port operators and longshoreman, particularly on the West Coast.


6 posted on 07/28/2025 12:13:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who cares about what a fake, shape-shifting stoner degenerate has to say?


7 posted on 07/28/2025 12:27:19 PM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The things the network execs allow to have a program is stunning.

Goofy clings to goofy I guess.


8 posted on 07/28/2025 12:28:00 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I didn't know much about Bill Maher until in 2001 he said this about the US military following the 9/11 attacks in NY and DC...

"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly."

And then he said this about the 9/11 hijackers...

"Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly,"

I've neither forgotten nor forgiven.

9 posted on 07/28/2025 12:57:32 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats always supported tariffs, Republicans were against them.


10 posted on 07/28/2025 1:08:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Both Capex and real wages rising vigorously. Some depression.


11 posted on 07/28/2025 1:16:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: nickcarraway

Other way around. Democrats historically were against tariffs (think Deep South imports for cotton) and Republicans for tariffs thru 1930s to protect US markets and workers. Only after WWII did the Republicans sign-on to “free trade “.

dvwjr


12 posted on 07/28/2025 1:24:17 PM PDT by dvwjr ( -)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maher has a pretty good monologue out there about bringing back traditional parenting - - the “trad dad”.


13 posted on 07/28/2025 1:26:22 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: sit-rep

Just one thing you have to remember with Bill.

Bill Maher always does what is in the best personal interests of Bill Maher. Thats it.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 1:34:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bill Maher always says just enough things just to keep the cash registers rolling. Next week he’ll say something supportive of Democrats. Notice how every time Maher says something remotely positive about Trump social media erupts into hizzahs. Next week he’ll say something (typically dumb) in praise of Democrats... and then social media will erupt outraged how out of touch the left-wing Maher is.

Maher is an entertainer with a well-honed schtick.

Unbelievable how easily people are played.


15 posted on 07/28/2025 1:36:43 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Secret Agent Man

maybe... but you’d know someone like Pelousy with the level of her self-interest would never admit to something like this like Maher did...


16 posted on 07/28/2025 1:40:50 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Was George Washington a Democrat because he was definitely pro tariff?


17 posted on 07/28/2025 1:55:21 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nickcarraway

The Republican Party was pro tariff up to WWII. The tariff was a huge plank in the GOP Platform.


18 posted on 07/28/2025 1:56:58 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
At least he sort of admitted his knee-jerk talking point initial reaction was wrong, but entertainment industry nitwit Bill Maher's just a partisan hack, always has been, always will be; :

19 posted on 07/28/2025 2:02:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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