Trump: It Would Be 'Lots Of Fun' If Oprah Ran For President

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 9, 2018 12:53 PM

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lent his voice to the national debate on whether Oprah Winfrey should run for office: “I like Oprah!”

“Oprah would be lots of fun,” Trump said after a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers about immigration. “You know, I did one of her last shows.”

Trump claimed he knows Winfrey “very well.”

“It was very nice,” he said of his appearance on Winfrey’s long-running eponymous talk show. “No, I like Oprah. I don’t think she’s going to run. I don’t think she’s going to run. I know her very well.”

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[jmowreader]

1. No, Donald.

It would be lots of fun if Eric Schneiderman ran for president. I can just see the inaugural address: "Marshals, hold that man."

[keithbvadu2]

2. Trump and Oprah?

Trump and Oprah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2000

Donald campaigned/ran for Prez in 2000

Trump focused his campaign on the issues of fair trade, eliminating the national debt, and achieving universal healthcare as outlined in the campaign companion piece The America We Deserve, released in January 2000. He named media proprietor Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate and said he would instantly marry his girlfriend, Melania Knauss, to make her First Lady.

[truthisfreedom]

3. He wants out badly.

[Kristofer Bry]

4. Not for You, Donny

I personally don't think she'll run, but if she did, her EV total would be close to 400.

[marble falls]

5. Because "the fun" is what being POTUS is all about,