OPRAH FOR PRESIDENT? BUZZ GROWS AFTER HER GOLDEN GLOBE SPEECH
Talk of media icon Oprah Winfrey running for president started even before she set the stage on fire with a speech that resounded way beyond the Golden Globes awards auditorium.
Seth Myers, the host, started it. “Oprah, 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!”
By the end of the night, ‘Winfrey for President’ was trending on social media.
It was the topic Monday morning shows, with hosts still fired up about her speech premised around the awakening post sexual abuse revelations about film mogul Harvey Weinstein, rendered in the rousing style associated with former President Barack Obama.
Speculation about Winfrey running for White House has been around for some months now. When asked if she was running, her long-time partner Stedman Graham told Los Angeles Times , “It’s up to the people She would absolutely do it.”
But a close friend Gayle King told CBS on Monday Winfrey was not running, and her position on the issue remained unchanged.
But what if people want her to? Meryl Streep, a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, wants Winfrey to run. And so does William Kristol, who served in the George H W Bush White House and founded conservative magazine The Weekly Standard. He sent out a string a tweets Monday hash-tagged #I’mWithHer.
President Donald Trump himself had not said anything about her speech, but his daughter Ivanka was all praise for her. “Let’s all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP! #United,” she tweeted. But Ivanka was widely criticised, given that her father is facing several sex abuse claims. HTC