Why does Donald Trump possibly want a recession?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "There is a period of transition, because what we're doing is very big," Trump said.
51% : In between his eyebrow-raising foreign policy and a raft of surprising executive orders, it's Trump's economic policies that have pulled focus in recent weeks, thanks in no small part to his sweeping tariffs and mass government firings facilitated by the Department of Government Efficiency.
40% : While Trump has since delayed those tariffs, after swift rebuke from the governments of each of those named countries, the economy is also more broadly enduring an increase in the unemployment rate, which ticked up to 4.1% in February.
35% : Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, however, was less inclined to predict a recession, telling NBC News that "there's going to be no recession" and instead insisting that "Trump is bringing growth to America."
33% : Speaking of the economic downturn in a recent interview with Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Trump refused to rule out the possibility of a recession in 2025, saying he "hate[s] to predict things like that."
31% : Trump responded to these concerns in a recent interview, so how exactly does the president feel about a possible recession?

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