Sen. Gillibrand: Wouldn’t it be terrible if Democrats nominated a man in 2020 (wink, wink)?

The New York senator lamented this weekend that the growing list of 2020 Democratic hopefuls is led by white males, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas. Gillibrand’s concern is in no way informed by her own obvious White House ambitions. Nope. No way.

“I did notice in that poll that the top three were, I think, Biden, Bernie, and Beto: three B’s, and all white guys. In a party as diverse as ours, does it worry you to see the top three being white guys?” CNN’s Van Jones asked Gillibrand this weekend during an interview.

“Yes,” the senator said, adding, “I aspire for our country to recognize the beauty of our diversity at some point in the future, and I hope someday we have a woman president.”

For good measure, she added a note about racial equality, saying, “I love the fact that Barack Obama was our president.”

“I love the fact that Barack Obama was our president for eight years. I hope more people of color, not only aspire and win the presidency, because that’s what makes America so extraordinary, that we are all of that,” she said. “We are everything, and I think a more inclusive America is a stronger America.”

Oh, please. Don’t make it so obvious.

“I have a vision for America about what’s right in the world. I do believe we should fight for each other’s kids as hard as we fight for our own. I do believe that we should restore the Golden Rule and actually care about one another,” Gillibrand said this weekend.

She added, “So I have that vision. And so, the question is, do I do that from a presidential platform or do I do it from the U.S. Senate? And that is the question I will decide very soon.”

It’s not so much the ham-fisted pandering that bothers me. It’s that Gillibrand markets her ambition as virtue. You see, it’s not that she simply aspires to hold the most powerful and prestigious office in the most powerful country in the world. It’s that the senator wants, uh, equality. And if she has to be president to do it, then – by God! — that’s her cross to bear.

As “Saturday Night Live’s” Pathological Liar would say: Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Gillibrand’s remarks this weekend are almost as big of an eye-roller as when her office tweeted on Dec. 4: “Our future is: Female Intersectional Powered by our belief in one another. And we’re just getting started.”

We get it, senator. You’re the wokest in the land.

It’s okay to aspire to higher office. Really, it is! Gillibrand wants something more than the U.S. Senate. Clearly. She wants it so badly, she’s practically screaming it. It doesn’t take a genius to see the self-serving calculations behind her comments this weekend on CNN. It’d be nice if she stopped characterizing her desire to accumulate more power as if it were a noble act of selflessness, all done in the name of marginalized groups everywhere. Also, while we’re at it, it’d be nice if she just got to the point already and dropped the coy, “Who me?” routine.

You can stop bluffing, senator. Everyone can see your hand.