Is Oprah Winfrey qualified to be not only the next, but the first women President of the United States? Well, she says after the election of Donald Trump as a the president, she might be rethinking whether she could be elected to the White House.
For several years, Winfrey has been good friends with Hillary Clinton, and was a supporter of her candidacy. In an interview with financier David Rubenstein in December for his Bloomberg show, "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations," that will be premiered the first week of March, the billionaire businesswoman said that before Trump's election, she thought that she didn't have the necessary government experience to run the country but now she thinks differently.
"I actually never thought that that was — I never considered the conversation even a possibility. I just thought, oh, oh," said the former host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Winfrey, who had never before held public office added, "No, that won't be happening, but I mean, I did use to think, well gee, you had to know so much more than I thought you had to know."
Trump's victory may have also been an "aha" moment for Kanye West, Mark Zuckerberg and Bob Iger, who considered the idea of a future presidential run.
Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother, under the name of "Orpah" after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck. Her TV show was the highest-rated television program in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.
She has co-authored five books, and broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, surpassing the autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Watch a fragment of the interview here!
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