Oprah Winfrey: Maybe I’ll Run For President [VIDEO]

CNBC reports:

Oprah Winfrey may end up running for president, thanks to President Donald Trump. The media mogul said during an interview on “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” that she never previously considered the possibility of running for president since she felt she didn’t have the experience. But, after Trump won the election, she isn’t ruling out an eventual bid. “I thought, ‘Oh gee I don’t have the experience,” Winfrey said. “I don’t know enough. And now I’m thinking, ‘Oh? Oh!'” Even hedging her answer is a swivel for Winfrey, who in 2015 told “CBS This Morning” she would not run for president “in this lifetime.”

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It makes a poetic sort of sense. If I were prone to grand Hegelian theories of history, of thesis and antithesis synthesizing before our eyes, I’d expect an Oprah presidency. Her TV and business background would make her an outsider in the sense that Trump was, only more so; her race and gender would make her an outsider in the sense that Obama was, only more so. She even combines Obama’s center-left politics with Trump’s positive-thinking theology. If politics were poetry, it would be inevitable: In four years President O will be ordering drone strikes from the Oval Office couch.