Oprah has said that she has no intention of running for president. Why would she, when she’s already Oprah? Donald Trump probably wishes he had powerful-yet-chilled out lifestyle that she lives on a daily basis.
Winfrey is on the cover of InStyle this month, with the magazine declaring: “Hello, Madam President? We asked, she answered.” And while the accompanying interview took place three weeks before her show-stopping Golden Globes speech, Oprah did address whether she’d ever want the job. Asked “How do you feel when people say, ‘Oprah 2020'?” she responded:
I actually saw a mug the other day ... I thought it was a cute mug. All you need is a mug and some campaign literature and a T-shirt. I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not. And so it’s not something that interests me. I don’t have the DNA for it. Gayle—who knows me as well as I know myself practically—has been calling me regularly and texting me things, like a woman in the airport saying, “When’s Oprah going to run?” So Gayle sends me these things, and then she’ll go, “I know, I know, I know! It wouldn’t be good for you—it would be good for everyone else.” I met with someone the other day who said that they would help me with a campaign. That’s not for me.
So you don’t get Oprah the President, but you get a mug! You get a mug! You get a mug! WE ALL GET MUGS!
Read the whole interview here.