Late on election night, with Donald Trump way outperforming expectations, CNN turned to its panel of Trump and Hillary Clinton backers. Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord said that the Republican nominee edging toward the White House, especially in Rust Belt states, was Americans wanting to take their country back from the elites. Van Jones, a Clinton supporter, had a different view.

"You have people putting their kids to bed tonight, and they're afraid of breakfast," he said, on the verge of tears. After explaining that bullying is bad, he continued: "They're afraid of, how do I explain this to my children? I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight, saying should I leave the country? I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight. This was many things — this was a rebelling against the elites, true, it was a complete reinvention of politics and polls, it's true, but it was also something else." The CNN panel talked about class and region, he noted, but "we haven't talked about race. This was a white-lash. This was a white-lash against a changing country, it was a white-lash against a black president in part, and that's the part where the pain comes." Trump has a responsibility to assure those people, Jones said. "When you say that you want to take your country back, you've got a lot of people who feel that we're not represented well either." Watch. Peter Weber

A Texas lawmaker has proposed a "Man's Right to Know Act," a satirical bill that would fine men for masturbating and impose "informed consent" requirements for Viagra prescriptions and vasectomies, The Texas Tribune reports. Rep. Jessica Farrar says men should undergo the same "unnecessary" and "invasive" procedures as women seeking abortions. She argues that masturbating is a "waste," as semen should be used only "for creating more human life." The Week Staff

"You have to admit, it looks pretty alluring," says Kelsey Kloss at Elle Decor. The Goûte ($24) is a utensil designed to trigger memories of sticking your own finger in chocolate or peanut butter, then licking your finger clean. Dreamed up by a German designer who wrote his Ph.D. on "spoonness," the utensil benefits from years of study into how the shape of tableware affects taste perception. Turns out, finger licking is a taste multiplier, and a Goûte made of glass or wood can mimic the effect.

Next up for its creators: a fur-clad bowl designed to enhance the experience of eating meat. The Week Staff

CNN's Jake Tapper tore into President Trump on Friday after Trump defended his administration's wiretapping claims at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Though Trump himself tweeted the baseless claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the presidential election — and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer then rehashed the unfounded claims that British spy agency GCHQ was involved — Trump on Friday blamed Fox News for spreading the allegations. "We said nothing. All we did was quote a very talented legal mind," Trump said, referring to former judge Andrew Napolitano, who suggested on Fox News that Obama "used" GCHQ to get intelligence on Trump.

"In a fevered effort to try to force this outlandish claim into something remotely resembling — passably, perhaps, maybe — the truth, the White House appears actually willing to repeat another wild accusation that potentially could alienate our nation's most important ally," Tapper said, referring to Britain. A GCHQ spokesperson on Friday said the allegation repeated by Spicer is "utterly ridiculous."

"Does smearing British intelligence make your family more safe? No? So why is the White House doing it?" Tapper said. "What is the White House defending here? Because it damn sure isn't national security, or American credibility before the world." Watch the clip below. Becca Stanek

The Trump administration has decided to fight a ruling by a federal court in Maryland, which earlier this week imposed a temporary restraining order against President Trump's revised travel ban. U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang ruled the executive order violated the First Amendment, The Washington Post reports.

Chuang's restraining order is narrower than a similar ruling against the ban that was made this week in Hawaii. However, if the Justice Department were to appeal the Hawaii ruling, the case would be sent to the same San Francisco appeals court that shot down the first version of Trump's travel ban last month. Chuang's ruling targets a portion of Trump's order that prevents citizens of the six majority-Muslim countries from being able to be issued a visa. Both the Maryland decision and the Hawaii decision invoke statements made by Trump and his advisers during the campaign, saying they proved "President Trump's animus toward Muslims and intention to impose a ban on Muslims entering the United States."

The ban was slated to go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, but the federal judges' rulings blockedit nationwide.

"We're going to fight this terrible ruling," Trump vowed in Nashville, shortly after the Hawaii judge reported his decision. "We're going to take our case as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court." Jeva Lange

President Trump has no regrets about his tweets. During a joint press conference Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a German reporter asked Trump about his recent tweets baselessly claiming former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the presidential election. The reporter wanted to know: Had Trump ever had second thoughts about his social media posts? Before the reporter could even finish asking the question, Trump interjected with an answer: "Very seldom."

A recent Fox News poll found just 16 percent of Americans approve of the president's tweeting, but Trump insisted Friday that tweeting was a great tool to circumvent the media — or as he calls it, the "enemy of the American people." "We have a tremendous group of people that listen, and I can get around the media when the media doesn't tell the truth," Trump said, referring to the tens of millions of Twitter followers who are privy to his thoughts about rapper Snoop Dogg's latest music video and the "FAKE NEWS media."

Trump has continued to stand by his accusations against Obama, despite the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) all admitting zero evidence has been uncovered to suggest the wiretapping ever took place. Fox News — one of the White House's last defenses for Trump's claims — said Friday it "knows of no evidence of any kind" that Trump was "surveilled at any time." Becca Stanek

President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are, by the looks of things, probably not exactly going to be best friends. On Friday, when trying to highlight some common ground between them, Trump dredged up a major diplomatic scandal between the U.S. and Germany. "As far as wiretapping by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said, a reference to the National Security Agency secretly tapping phone calls of the German chancellery for decades, a revelation that first came to light in a 2013 WikiLeaks report.

In regards to Trump's own claims of being wiretapped by Obama, on Thursday the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said there are "no indications" that anything of the sort happened. Nevertheless, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer alleged Obama was able to get intelligence on Trump through the British spy agency GCHQ — a theory that was first floated by former judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox News. Spicer quoted Napolitano as saying: "Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI, and he didn't use the Department of Justice, he used GCHQ." The United States later formally apologized to Britain for citing the untrue rumor, though Spicer denied later Friday that the White House regretted repeating the allegation.

When accused Friday of spreading the baseless accusations, Trump shrugged off responsibility. "We said nothing. All we did was quote a very talented legal mind ... So you shouldn't be talking to me you should be talking to Fox." In response, Fox News' Shepard Smith said Friday: "Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano's commentary. Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, any way. Full stop." Jeva Lange

President Trump, who launched his presidency with a populist inaugural speech championing "America First," scoffed Friday when a German reporter asked him if he was an isolationist. "I am not an isolationist by any stretch of the imagination," Trump said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit to the White House on Friday. "So I don't know what newspaper you're reading, but I guess that would be another example of — as you say — 'fake news.'"

Trump insisted that he did not believe in an isolationist policy, but a "fair" trade policy. "The United States has been treated very, very unfairly by many countries over the years, and that's going to stop," Trump said. "But I'm not an isolationist. I'm a free trader, but I'm also a fair trader. And our free trade has led to a lot of bad things happening." Becca Stanek