Despite the economy doing well and unemployment dropping to 3.8 percent in May under President Donald Trump, comedian Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” says he hopes the economy will fail.
In a series of controversial comments, Maher said he is “hoping” for the bottom to fall out of the economy and for the country to enter a recession.
“I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people,” said Maher, whose own net worth is in the tens of millions.
The American economy has pumped out many records over the past year, especially in recent months.
Black unemployment fell to 5.9 percent from an already record-low of 6.6 percent in April.
Female unemployment inched down to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1953.
Including two special elections, there will be 35 Senate seats up for grabs come Election Day on Nov. 6. Of those, 23 are currently held by Democrats and two by independents—Bernie Sanders and Angus King, who are allied with Democrats. Republicans hold eight seats.
In addition, voters will decide on all 435 voting seats in the House of Representatives, where Republicans currently hold 235 seats versus the Democrats’ 193.
Some conservative commentators are worried that Maher’s view might be more widespread among people set on hurting Trump’s chances for reelection in 2020.