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(The Hill) — Comedian Bill Maher expressed vexation with the White House connected Friday, just implicit 100 days since President Trump took office, citing economic uncertainty brought to the forefront by President Trump's latest tariffs.
"We deed the 100-day people of the Trump administration, arsenic you know, this week, and ooh, the numbers are benignant of successful the toilet," Maher said, portion pointing to marketplace dips and polls that item the president's dismal 39 percent support standing since returning to office.
"That’s the lowest 100-day people for a president successful 80 years. It’s similar America remarried their ex and remembered wherefore they got divorced successful the archetypal place," helium continued successful an occurrence of "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Maher besides noted that the U.S.'s gross home merchandise (GDP) has shrunk by 0.3 percent successful the archetypal 4th of 2025 and that consumer confidence is astatine its lowest constituent successful 5 years.
"Kind of a precocious terms for getting backmost integrative straws," helium said successful a clip highlighted by Mediaite, joking astir the president's enforcement bid targeting insubstantial straws from earlier this year.
His critique comes aft Trump past period levied a 10 percent baseline tax connected astir each overseas imports and announced higher reciprocal taxes connected galore nations. Following backlash, he paused most of the retaliatory tariffs for up to 90 days to let country for negotiation. But, the medication notably near out 1 of the nation's apical trading partners: China.
The "Liberation Day" fallout has spooked galore connected Wall Street, with immoderate experts suggesting the U.S. is headed for oregon is already in a recession. The president has mostly brushed disconnected the concerns — adjacent claiming earlier this week that children would beryllium OK with less toys.
"But, you know, Trump, helium lone doubles down," Maher said Friday. "I mean, this guy, I got to say, the balls connected him, they asked him astir what’s going to hap Christmas, due to the fact that ... 80 percent of the toys travel from China, and this is the clip they’re starting to program for that."
"The happening is that radical successful this state now, we don’t recognize wherefore we’re doing this," helium added later. "Why are we f---ing putting ourselves done this? To bring manufacturing backmost from China to marque the things present that they marque successful China? That’s the American dream?"
Trump has mostly defended his sweeping tariff agenda, arguing it volition bring jobs and home accumulation backmost to the U.S. But, aft Wednesday's GDP report, helium acknowledged that the U.S. whitethorn consciousness immoderate symptom from the steep taxes — and asked for time to hole it.
When asked by NBC's "Meet the Press" successful an interrogation acceptable to aerial Sunday astir whether Americans should beryllium disquieted astir a recession, helium said "anything tin happen."
