President Trump told Oprah Winfrey in 1988 that he wouldn’t rule out a run for president, decades before reports that Winfrey may consider a run against Trump in 2020.

Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and onlookers thought Winfrey’s acceptance speech foreshadowed a White House run. Stedman Graham, Winfrey’s longtime partner, told the Los Angeles Times that Winfrey “would absolutely do it.”

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