Oprah Winfrey For President? Golden Globes Speech Fuels Speculation Over Possible Run | THR News - video Dailymotion

Hollywood Journal

Following Oprah’s rousing speech during Sunday night’s Golden Globes, where she became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, speculation over her eyeing a 2020 presidential run has been resurrected.

Transcript

00:00So is Oprah running for president? That is what many are asking and some are hoping for after

00:11Oprah Winfrey delivered a rousing speech during Sunday night's Golden Globes where she became

00:16the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award. She earned three standing ovations,

00:21resurrecting talk that she is eyeing a 2020 presidential run. The moment was the most

00:25talked about of the evening with Monday morning news shows debating the chances that Winfrey will

00:30actually run. On CNN Newsroom, pundits discussed the chances of a Winfrey Joe Biden ticket.

00:36The idea of a Winfrey candidacy was in the air from the night's opening monologue when Globe's

00:40host Seth Meyers joked that when he called Donald Trump unqualified to be president during the White

00:45House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011, his jab may have convinced the mogul to run.

00:49So if that's true, I just want to say, Oprah, you will never be president!

00:55You do not have what it takes!

00:58In her speech, Winfrey directly addressed the current climate and projected a time when

01:02nobody ever has to say, me too, again.

01:05So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon!

01:13Judging from Twitter's reaction and the response from some of his fellow TV critics, THR's

01:18Daniel Feinberg wrote,

01:20I'd wager that a Winfrey-McDormand ticket with promised cabinet-level positions for Natalie Portman,

01:24Barbra Streisand and Viola Davis would probably scoop up around 90 percent of the vote in the

01:29greater Los Angeles area. But he warns, of course, it was this time last year when it looked possible

01:34that Meryl Streep might be simultaneously elected president, senator and pope, all off the momentum

01:39of her own Golden Globe speech.

01:42Winfrey has previously denied that she plans to run for office, but after the evening refueled

01:46the conversation, her longtime partner Stenman Graham told the LA Times, it's up to the people,

01:50she would absolutely do it.

01:52When asked about the viral moment herself, Winfrey 2020 was trending on Twitter,

01:56Winfrey gave a quick dismissal about running to Bloomberg.

01:59NBC, which aired the award shows, tweeted a gif of Winfrey with the caption,

02:03The post left many on Twitter confused, while others questioned NBC's ability to be

02:10nonpartisan after the tweet.

02:12Among the critics, Donald Trump Jr. shared NBC's tweet early Monday morning, writing,

02:16In case anyone had any doubts about where the media stands, this should take care of it.

02:20The bias against Donald Trump is now so obvious they have simply given up hiding it.

02:25Can you trust anything they say at this point?

02:27NBC deleted the tweet early Monday morning around 7.30 a.m. Pacific time, saying the post

02:32was sent out by a third party and not meant to be a political statement.

02:36The tweet was sent out by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the

02:41live broadcast, said a spokesperson in a statement on Monday.

02:44It is in reference to a joke made during the opening monologue and not meant to be a

02:48political statement. We have since removed the tweet.

02:50What did you think of Oprah Winfrey's powerful speech at the Golden Globes?

02:54And do you think she should run for president? Let us know in the comments.

02:58For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

03:02.

Oprah Winfrey For President? Golden Globes Speech Fuels Speculation Over Possible Run | THR News

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended