Oprah For Prez!

Support is growing for the queen of talk to set her sights on the Oval Office – and she’s hinted it’s not out of the question

- Kirstin Buick

CALM. Collected. Compassionate – but tough as nails.

She’s the antithesis of the current president of the United States – but she’d be the perfect balm to soothe the gaping gashes President Donald Trump seems to have torn in American society.

Oprah Winfrey had the Twitter verse in a frenzy with a little tweet that indicated she might, just might, consider running for office in the 2020 US presidential elections.

Tagging NY Post columnist John Podhoretz, she re-tweeted an article he’d penned for the website titled “Democrats’ best hope for 2020: Oprah”.

“Thanks for your VOTE of confidence!” she wrote.

Podhoretz replied cheekily: “Give it a shot, what, would it kill you?”

It was written after Oprah (63) had chaired a special segment of CBS’ news programme 60 Minutes, in which voters from Michigan debated the growing chasms among Americans.

“Listening, asking, speaking without judgment, trying to find common ground – it was a superb performance by Oprah,” Podhoretz, once a speechwriter for former presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, said.

Her “performance”, he added, apparently sparked another idea in the brain of the NY Post’s editor of commentary.

“If you need to set a thief to catch a thief,” he wrote, “you need a star – a grand, outsized, fearless star whom Trump can neither intimidate nor outshine – to catch a star.”

His theory might be a little out there, but his argument is compelling.