Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

How are you, Bob?

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Well, I think I know why you're happy today.

You haven't checked your stocks yet.

No, Trump over and over.

Remember this kept saying that the tariffs he kept putting on China that we were not going

to be paying for the tariffs.

China was going to be paying with it.

We're not going to be past the cost onto the American consumer.

So now he's postponed those tariffs, he says, because he doesn't want to affect Christmas.

With the tariffs that don't affect consumers.

Thank you, Mr. President, for ending the war on Christmas that you started.

Yeah, so the tariffs that were going to be put on cell phones and laptops and toys,

they were supposed to go into effect on September 1st.

But in the middle of the night, President Scrooge McPresident got a visit from the ghost of Christmas stupid.

So yesterday the stock market dropped 800 points.

Conservative media knows who to blame me.

They're blaming me, really.

I'm showing how he's on it every night because I have been rooting for a recession.

Yes, because if the economy falters, Trump goes.

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