Bill Maher capped a week of pop culture reaction to the comeback election of Donald Trump with a few zingers in his monologue on Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” including confirmation that “I did not vote for the winner” and a telling disclosure about the West Hollywood pot shop that he co-owns with actor Woody Harrelson. Maher took a moment to marvel at Trump’s decisive sweep on Election Night. “Trump won all the swings, all seven — he ran the table.
Trump won so big today, he called the Secretary of State in Georgia and he asked him to lose him 11,000 votes,” Maher said, a nod to the 2020 election controversy in Georgia that led to felony charges against the former President. “He has an amazing coalition. He kept the old crowd that likes him.
He got a lot of new voters. He got a lot of people who say they just want to see what he’ll do. I call this the get-the-cat-high vote.
” He affirmed his vote for Trump’s Democratic challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris. “The exit poll said he grabbed 52% of white women. He also got their votes,” Maher quipped of Trump’s strength with women.
Maher noted the rightward tilt of the electorate, including in liberal Los Angeles where a California state ballot measure to make shoplifting a felony again was passed easily by voters who are tired to seeing petty crime soar at their local drug stores and 7-Elevens. “Even liberal L.A.
said, ‘Here’s an idea — instead of locking up the toothpaste, h.
