Former President Donald Trump predicted the US economy would “crash,” saying he hoped it would do so within the next year – before he would assume the Oval Office should he win a second term in November.

“When there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president – I just don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump said in an interview that aired Monday on the right-wing platform Lindell TV.

The US stock market crashed during former President Herbert Hoover’s first year in office in 1929, which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.

The comments come as the front-runner for the Republican nomination looks to drive home his message on the economy – and criticism of President Joe Biden – with less than a week to go until Iowa’s pivotal caucuses.

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    10 months ago

    I also hope a fatal heart attack would happen before he could serve a possible second term as well.

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      10 months ago

      Nah, I’m hoping for pancreatic cancer. I want something that will kill him quickly enough that it prevents him from winning the election, but slow enough that he has to suffer in agony while he whithers away and dies. That would provide some semblance of karmic justice in my mind at least.