According to a CNN report, two of Oprah Winfrey‘s “close friends” claim she’s “actively thinking” about running for president.
The sources, who wished to remain anonymous, talked to CNN after Winfrey’s triumphant Golden Globes speech, which have led to a load of rumors about a 2020 run.
The sources claim friends have been urging Winfrey to run for months, but she’s yet to make up her mind.
“President Winfrey” was a running theme throughout the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday after she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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The overall message of her speech — “A new day is on the horizon” — was in reference to the #MeToo movement, but could also be read as her hinting at a potential presidential run.
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Political pundits claim Winfrey’s wealth and fame would make her a Democratic Party candidate to be reckoned with, while critics wonder if the American people would be choose two TV stars as president in a row.
At the conclusion of the speech, Winfrey’s partner Stedman Graham said a run is quite possible.
“It’s up to the people,”Graham told the Los Angeles Times. “She would absolutely do it.”
“There’s only one person whose name is a verb, an adjective, and a feeling,” Reese Witherspoon said while introducing Winfrey at the Globes. “And that is Oprah.”
Last March, David Rubenstein of Bloomberg brought up the possibility of a presidential run with Oprah, saying, “It’s clear you don’t need government experience to be elected president of the United States.”
“I thought, ‘Oh gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough,'” Oprah responded. “And now I’m thinking, ‘Oh. OH!'”
But when her best friend Gayle King brought up a presidential run on “CBS This Morning,” Winfrey sounded pessimistic: “There will be no running for office of any kind for me.”
Detractors wasted no time in unearthing an old photograph of Oprah Winfrey standing alongside Harvey Weinstein, the ruined movie mogul.
Meanwhile, Meryl Streep told The Washington Post that Winfrey’s speech “launched a rocket.”
Seth Meyers stoked speculation during one of his monologues.
“Oprah,” he said, “in 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents Dinner — jokes about how he was unqualified to be president — and some have said that night convinced him to run. So if that’s true, I just want to say: Oprah, you will never be president! You do not have what it takes!”
It was clear by the rousing applause Hollywood was certainly in support of the idea.
Watch Oprah’s speech here:
Bob LaBlah
Forget it dear. As soon as you open your mouth and say your in the race the pics of Stedman and his male escorts and gay past will coming flying from all directions. Love you as I do you are not presidential material. Sorry hun, just stick to what you do best, making tons of money, and stay the hell out of politics.
Mandrake
Totally agree!
Knight
hey Bob! While I would have agreed with you 10 years ago, since Trump became president, I now believe all previous morality and ethics is moot. Oprah could come out as a lesbian and I think she would still have as much a chance as Trump did (maybe even moreso since she has a bigger female following than he did). I’m not saying she SHOULD run, since I don’t think I’d agree with much of what she would run under. but I’m saying the Steadman/lesbian thing is probably a non-issue at this stage.
BTW, happy new year (didn’t say it before ; )
Kangol
I think she’s a remarkable business woman and media figure, and a cultural and international icon, and did not inherit $100 million from her daddy nor was she daughter of an oil man and former CIA director, nor did she ever have anything handed to her on a silver spoon of any sort.
But I have to say this mindless championing of celebrities as political leaders has not turned out well. Look at Jesse Ventura. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ronald Reagan. And now moronic “stable genius” Don the Con Man himself, whose aides, kids, and everyone around him think he’s already suffering dementia and an idiot. His own wife reported goes for days without seeing or having anything to do with him.
We have to get beyond the flash and find politicians who actually care about the American people beyond rhetorical BS, not just Wall Street and US corporations and billionaires, and not some radical ideology they read in school or learned about on extremist websites or TV propaganda channels.
NateOcean
You beat me to it; I was about to mention Ventura, Schwarzenegger, and Reagan. If anything, Trump has shown, once again, what a poor choice these cultural icons can be, and that would work *against* Winfrey.
Where’s Oprah’s foreign policy experience, or administrative background? (Clearly she has little to offer by way of science or technical fields. Dr Phil and Dr Oz, are sham doctors!)
Let Oprah be a governor, and prove her mettle. Better yet, run as a Senator. (Oh, wait, we just had a well-regarded Senator kicked to the curb under questionable circumstances, while the pusy-grabber-in-chief sits in the oval office…a stable genius.)
broadshoulder
Not another bloody celebrity!
DCguy
I would worry that somebody who has been in a celebrity bubble won’t be able to handle any criticism. There is of course a HUGE difference between Oprah and Trump. Trump inherited a fortune, went bankrupt and is now in debt hundreds of millions to foreign lenders.
Oprah started out poor, built a business and is now worth over a billion dollars. So as far as business goes, she’s a success and he’s a failure.
Jaxton
The black dress stunt at the Golden Globes wore out quicker than Oprah’s credibility. She’s a classic liberal hypocrite who lives in mansions while claiming to be “concerned” about ordinary people.
By the way, if her partner Stedman is bisexual, is she contributing to his oppression?
Bob LaBlah
“By the way, if her partner Stedman is bisexual, is she contributing to his oppression?”
Stedman sits on his rear end and collects no less than $50 million a year being nothing else but Mr. Oprah Winfrey. A Chicago reporter reported a story twenty five years or so ago about Oprah chasing Stedman and a male friend out of their apartment with a butcher knife. The guy was allegedly in his underwear. Credible witness saw the incident it but the story was retracted and the reporter was fired. The Chicago Sun never denied the allegations that Oprah insisted the reporter be fired. Thats the power some celebrities have. I love Oprah but in reality its seems a bit far fetched to think nothing sexual was going on between her and ol’ Gayle King.
Juanjo
Oh look, the trumpanzee has an opinion! Quelle surprise, it’s negative.
Aires the Ram
If she indeed does manage to win the Democratic nomination, we will see a whole lot more red on the election results map!! Let her run!!
Blackceo
I love Oprah but her power and genius is better served elsewhere. I don’t want her to run for President and have to get in the gutter with that POS who occupies the White House now. No, if there’s one thing that White men like Trump really don’t like its Black women posing any kind of threat to them. It would be quite ugly and the Trumpanzees would be all over it with such nastiness.
jhon_siders
No no and NO Hillary was a train wreck waiting to happen unless she let bill call the shots . Trump is a blowhard (not in a good way ) Celebrities need to stay in front of the camera look at all we had as leaders like Arnold or Ronny R and all failed look who is in there now Your Fired does not run a country Id like to see a candidate that is for the every one not one that is just for the rich I do not think you will ever see one that did great things as ones in the past our system is broken and beyond repair .
mhoffman953
The 2020 Democratic primary is going to be hysterical.
So far we’re rumored to have Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas, Oprah, and Mark Zuckerberg. This is going to be comedy gold
Bob LaBlah
You know how it breaks my heart to be the bearer of bad news to you but the GOP 2020 ticket is close to making the dems look sane. This is a dangerous situation we are in and there is nothing the working class can do but sit back and look.
Jack Meoff
I agree with most of the comments above. It seems to be a little to easy for someone to run for president of the USA. I can’t help but wonder if there should be some more criteria put in place that people must meet before being eligible such as previous involvement in politics and perhaps a lack of celebrity status outside of political issues. If Oprah ran for president she would have an unfair advantage purely due to the legion of fans she has. That is not enough to qualify someone to run a country.
Knight
Oprah’s speech made me want to wretch; it was pandering to all the abusers and victims sitting in the audience in front of her. She put all the women in the audience who had experience abuse but never once reported on it in the same category as working-poor women with families to feed. Well…no, keeping your mouth shut so you can get that lead role in the next big block-buster isn’t the same thing. And calling it a “new day” so as to absolve all the men in the audience who have been abusing women for decades so they can now say, “I’m a changed man! it’s a new day!’ is just beyond ridiculous.
This was just a mutual back-slapping exercise in hypocrisy by the same Hollywood elites. Nothing more and nothing less. Certainly nothing presidential.
SiamSam
She brought up that infamous and horrific racist gang rape n Alabama. WTF? NOTHING has changed in the USA since 1944? Just the usual divisive and corrosive identity politics, the mass weaponization of victimhood, the endless white-blaming and man-shaming that brought us President Trump. Please Democrats, continue with this election-winning strategy!
Knight
Siam LOL!! Seriously, when you put it like that, the Republicans must be wetting themselves knowing they have the next election locked and loaded if this is the crap the Democrats will be bringing.
Hey, I heard Roseanne’s thinking of running too. Maybe they can make a reality show about the next election cycle?
SiamSam
It’s no secret Hollywood leans heavily left while the mainstream media often acts like the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. If Hillary Clinton was President, NONE of these Hollywood and media sexual harassment and assault scandals would’ve seen the light of day. No #MeToo hashtags, “Listen and Believe” campaigns, or black dress night at the Golden Globes. Thank you, President Trump, in being the catalyst to exposing the misogyny and sexual predation by those in Hollywood and the media who preen and pose as our moral betters and great thinkers.
mhoffman953
@SiamSam
That seems very true. However, these little hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and wearing black dresses are just a way to virtue signal and are a flash in time. Nothing will change in Hollywood. Women will still sleep around for roles and men will abuse women with the promise of fame.
Wearing a $50,000 designer black gown to an event while drinking expensive champagne as you hang out with your rich celebrity friends doesn’t fix anything in Hollywood.
The snobs and elitists in Hollywood know what goes on, they know the dark secrets of their other celebrity and wealthy friends but they remain silent or act like they didn’t have the slightest idea. Oprah probably knew Harvey Weinstein was a creep and an abuser but she still accepted his money when she needed projects financed.
https://i.imgur.com/iP2I5ME.jpg
Knight
Mhoff I said the SAME THING to some friends of mine the other day! This current environment of speaking out will absolutely not last. People (not only men…I know…surprise) have been abusing their positions of power for sex since the beginning of time. Hollywood is simply the epitome of this bad behavior, since the “victims” aren’t always so much “victims” as they are reluctant participants who are rewarded for their silence and ability to “play ball”.
On a similar note, I’m pretty surprised Jack Nicholas and every lib’s favorite Alec Baldwin haven’t been denounced yet (because they have both left a trail of potential law suits over the past decades…that much I can tell you from close experience). Meh…time will tell.
Keebler ILF
In that picture you linked to of Oprah and Weinstein, the other woman in the photo almost looks terrified of Weinstein, and she’s holding on to Oprah for protection.
By the way, nothing in that speech made me think Oprah was considering running for Pres.
Juanjo
Just look at all the sock puppets trotted out to carp, bitch, and moan. Hilarious. I do not know if Oprah is planning on running, nor do I care that she is a celebrity. The word is meaningless. If and when she does run, I will want to hear her positions on various issues and what her proposals are to remedy the mess the Republicans and the Howler Monkey are creating right now. The sock puppets attacking her here are doing it because she is Black, she is a woman, and she is infinitely smarter than their idol, the Orange Snowflake.
1EqualityUSA
jaunjo rules
Knight
Juanwhore ah…the race card. Are you going to play the race card with me too? Because as a Latino, I think Oprah is a hypocrite and a poser. Did I mention I’m Latino? So, I can say this. And you can’t use your race-card against me. Plus, you are hideous, disgusting and foul to look at/think about with a face like a woman was raped by a flock of goats. I can say this as a Latino.