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."

Maher added, "The truth is, I don’t know what his strategy is but, look, the stock market is at record highs… I also drive around. I don’t see a country in a depression at all. I see people just out there living their lives.

"I would have thought, and I’ve got to own it, that these tariffs were going to f-----g sink this economy by this time, and they didn’t. How do we deal with that fact? Because that’s the fact." 

Cohen responded that the tariff saga is an example of why he stopped making bold predictions. 

"If I was good at predicting things, Hillary [Clinton] would have been the president in 2016," Cohen said.