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Invoice Maher capped per week of popular culture response to the comeback election of Donald Trump with a number of zingers in his monologue on Friday’s version of HBO’s “Actual Time,” together with affirmation that “I didn’t vote for the winner” and a telling disclosure in regards to the West Hollywood pot store that he co-owns with actor Woody Harrelson.
Maher took a second to marvel at Trump’s decisive sweep on Election Evening.
“Trump received all of the swings, all seven — he ran the desk. Trump received so massive at present, he known as the Secretary of State in Georgia and he requested him to lose him 11,000 votes,” Maher stated, a nod to the 2020 election controversy in Georgia that led to felony prices towards the previous President. “He has a tremendous coalition. He acquired the outdated crowd that likes him. He acquired quite a lot of new voters. He acquired lots of people who say they only need to see what he’ll do. I name this the get-the-cat-high vote.”
He affirmed his vote for Trump’s Democratic challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris. “The exit ballot stated he grabbed 52% of white ladies. He additionally acquired their votes,” Maher quipped of Trump’s energy with ladies.
Maher famous the rightward tilt of the citizens, together with in liberal Los Angeles the place a California state poll measure to make shoplifting a felony once more was handed simply by voters who’re bored with seeing petty crime soar at their native drug shops and 7-Elevens.
“Even liberal LA stated, ‘This is an concept — as an alternative of locking up the toothpaste, how about we lock up the shoplifters?’ “
Maher stated the difficulty of rampant retail crime in main cities “got here house to me personally this week.” He disclosed that the Woods, the West Hollywood pot store that he co-owns with actor Woody Harrelson, was burglarized someday earlier than the Nov. 5 election. He stated there has already been an arrest within the case.
“They only broke within the window and walked in there, and the joke’s on them, you realize? Why? As a result of they caught the man. As a result of our pot is so good he forgot to depart,” Maher stated.
Maher’s first visitor was actor Michael Douglas, who paid the host a praise. The son of influential Hollywood golden age star Kirk Douglas, who died in 2020 at age 101, instructed Maher that in the direction of the tip of his father’s life, “the one issues he would watch was Final Preventing (Championship) and also you.”
Maher has been outspoken about his choice for the Democratic Celebration on this 12 months’s presidential election, final week imploring undecided voters that “I am not Trump” is a “nonetheless a very nice purpose” by itself to vote for Harris. In September, Maher took difficulty with Trump’s remark that “the Jewish individuals would have lots to do” with a possible election loss for him.
“Each time the autocrat begins blaming the Jews, I feel it is an ideal signal as a result of when has that ever turned out badly,” Maher stated on “Actual Time.”
Trump fired again at Maher on his social media platform Reality Social, calling the HBO host a “a befuddled mess, sloppy and drained, and each dialog, with B and C record visitors.”
Maher’s feedback on the presidential election come after nearly each late-night discuss present host has weighed in on Tuesday’s outcomes. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Tomlinson and Seth Meyers all expressed their dismay on the election outcomes at size. John Oliver is anticipated to confront the difficulty within the latest episode of “Final Week Tonight” on Sunday night.
“It was a horrible night time for everybody who voted towards him,” Kimmel said in his opening monologue Wednesday night. “And guess what? It was a foul night time for everybody who voted for him too. You simply do not understand it but.”
