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Bill Maher on Donald Trump’s Election: ‘I Call This the Get-the-Cat-High Vote’
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, how about we lock up the shoplifters?’ “
Maher said the issue of rampant retail crime in major cities “came home to me personally this week.” He disclosed that the Woods, the West Hollywood pot shop that he co-owns with actor Woody Harrelson, was burglarized one day before the Nov. 5 election. He said there has already been an arrest in the case.
“They just broke in the window and walked in there, and the joke’s on them, you know? Why? Because they caught the guy. Because our pot is so good he forgot to leave,” Maher said.
Maher’s first guest was actor Michael Douglas, who paid the host a compliment. The son of influential Hollywood golden age star Kirk Douglas, who died in 2020 at age 101, told Maher that toward the end of his father’s life, “the only things he would watch was Ultimate Fighting [Championship] and you.”
Maher has been outspoken about his preference for the Democratic Party in this year’s presidential election, last week imploring undecided voters that “I’m not Trump” is a “still a really great reason” on its own to vote for Harris. In September, Maher took issue with Trump’s comment that “the Jewish people would have a lot to do” with a potential election loss for him.
“Whenever the autocrat starts blaming the Jews, I think it’s a great sign because when has that ever turned out badly,” Maher said on “Real Time.”
Trump fired back at Maher on his social media platform Truth Social, calling the HBO host a “a befuddled mess, sloppy and tired, and every conversation, with B and C list guests.”
Maher’s comments on the presidential election come after just about every late-night talk show host has weighed in on the results of Tuesday. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Tomlinson and Seth Meyers all expressed their dismay at the election results at length. John Oliver is expected to confront the issue in the newest episode of “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday evening.
“It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him,” Kimmel stated in his opening monologue Wednesday evening. “And guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too. You just don’t realize it yet.”
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Russian spies infiltrate UK on cargo ships to scout military sites, find weaknesses
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Two suspected Russian spies are believed to have secretly entered the U.K. on cargo ships before traveling to locations close to key military bases and critical government infrastructure, according to reports.
The i Paper claimed the two men arrived in the U.K. during the spring and summer of 2025, using ports at Torquay, Middlesbrough and Grangemouth, in the north-east.
A U.K. defense source also suggested the men were linked to President Vladimir Putin’s military and intelligence networks.
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Two suspected Russian spies entered the U.K. via cargo ships through Torquay, Middlesbrough and Grangemouth ports before visiting areas near military bases. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images))
The pair are alleged to have accessed the country covertly by exploiting commercial shipping routes rather than passing through heavily monitored border entry points.
The ships they used were reportedly neither Russian-flagged nor part of the sanctioned shadow fleet associated with the Kremlin, making them far less likely to attract scrutiny.
A senior NATO official responsible for protecting Europe’s maritime waters told the outlet that intelligence agencies had detected Russian operatives traveling on non-suspicious cargo vessels.
The official said those types of ships offer an ideal way of moving personnel discreetly.
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Putin is testing the boundaries of NATO with aircraft incursions, allied states say. (Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/Reuters )
“It would be the most natural place to move people around in that world, and we think it’s going on,” the source said.
“They are not sailing on shadow fleet tankers, they are sailing on all [types of] ships,” the source claimed, adding that Russian agents had monitored and “tested European ports to find weaknesses.”
One of the suspected operatives is reported to have entered the U.K. through Torquay in the South West after traveling from Finland.
The second, previously seen in Moscow at an intelligence-linked facility, was suspected of traveling from Kaliningrad and entering via Middlesbrough and Grangemouth.
After spending time around the storage facility at Grangemouth, the second operative also traveled to Falkirk, where they visited a retail park.
NATO CONSIDERS ‘MORE AGGRESSIVE’ RESPONSE TO RUSSIA’S HYBRID THREATS
Suspected Russian operatives entered the U.K. through ports near weapon facilities to test security weaknesses. (John Keeble/Getty Images)
Both British docks were recently proposed by the Ministry of Defense as potential sites for future U.K. weapons factories.
They are currently unused brownfield locations, increasing concerns over the security implications of the alleged visits.
Elisabeth Braw of the Intelligence Council and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council told the i Paper that it makes sense for Russian intelligence to exploit these weaknesses.
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“It doesn’t surprise me that Russia wants to bring certain people into the country even though they can reach people who are already there,” she said.
“They need their own operatives to conduct this sort of activity,” Braw added.
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Russian gas and oil in Europe are done for good, Energy Commissioner tells Euronews
EU legislators agreed this week on a historic deal to end energy dependency on Russian gas by 2027. Commissioner Jørgensen told Euronews’ Europe Today morning show that Europeans must never allow Moscow to weaponise energy, and a Russian oil ban could be next.
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Video: Several Countries Boycott Eurovision 2026 Over Israel’s Participation
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Several Countries Boycott Eurovision 2026 Over Israel’s Participation
Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia said that they were boycotting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because Israel would continue to be allowed in the competition.
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“So we’re big fans of Eurovision. And I think what Eurovision stands for isn’t politics. However, what’s happening, what Israel is doing, is not good. So I think whatever the countries decide to do, it’s up to them.”
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