Oprah Winfrey has ruled out running for President in 2020.
Ever since the famous TV personality’s BFF Gayle King said that Oprah was “intrigued” by the idea of running for office, people have been going crazy over the thought that Oprah could be the next President of the United States.
However, the 63-year-old has dashed all hopes of that ever happening.
In an interview with InStyle magazine, Oprah said, “”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,” she said, before adding, “I don’t have the DNA for it.”
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— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) January 25, 2018
Many called for Oprah to run for President after she delivered an incredible speech at the 2018 Golden Globes – but sadly, it’s not to be.
Unlike President Donald Trump, Oprah doesn’t agree with discussing political matters on social media.
“I try not to lean into the hysteria. I’ve heard a lot of Twitter chatter where people have said, ‘Where are you? You should be speaking up on these things!’ But it makes no sense to speak when you cannot be heard,” she said.
“One hundred and forty characters—that is not how you want to make your mark in the world.”
Speaking about the Time’s Up movement, which Oprah has been a huge part of, she said, “Everything that’s happened has brought us to this point in time. We’ve been working our way through a lot of repressed pain, anger, shame, and disappointment.”
“And we weren’t honoring our own voices. Now we’re here, and it took Harvey Weinstein to burst that door wide open. But Harvey [Weinstein] wasn’t the first one. It was Bill Cosby before him, and Bill O’Reilly before him. It’s just fascinating to me because I always try to look at things from thousands of feet above…”
“It has seared into the consciousness a level of awareness that was not there before. That’s the most important thing to me. When Reese Witherspoon can tell her story at the same time as a farm worker in Iowa or a factory worked in Alabama, it says to a person, ‘Oh well, I’ve been putting up with that asshole supervisor for all these years. Maybe it’s time for me to do something too.'”
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