The David Rubenstein Show: Oprah Winfrey 
 
 "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations" explores successful leadership through the personal and professional choices of the most influential people in business. Renowned financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein travels the country talking to leaders to uncover their stories and their path to success. The first episode of season two features Oprah Winfrey. The interview taped Dec. 12. (Source: Bloomberg) 

 Oprah Winfrey has a message for anyone still undecided about the presidential election: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is the only reasonable choice ― even if you dislike her. 
 
 “There really is no choice, people,” Winfrey told T.D. Jakes during an interview on his namesake show on Winfrey’s OWN network. The full interview is set to air next week. 
 
 “All the people sitting around talking about they can’t decide ... this is what I really want to say,” Winfrey said. “I hear this all the time, you get in conversations ... where people say, ‘I just don’t know if I like her.’ She’s not coming over to your house. You don’t have to like her. You don’t have to like her.” 
 
 Winfrey suggested there are much bigger questions voters should be asking themselves about this election. 
 
 “Do you like this country?” Winfrey asked. “You better get out there and vote. Do you like the country? Do you like freedom and liberty? Do you like Democracy? Or do you want a demagogue?” 
 
 Winfrey didn’t mention Republican nominee Donald Trump by name. 
 
 Trump is the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern U.S. history. Clinton also has struggled with likability among voters. 
 
 Winfrey, who endorsed Clinton earlier this year, hasn’t been an outspoken advocate for the Democratic nominee. She told Jakes that’s largely due to the unusually unpleasant campaign. 
 
 “The reason why I haven’t been vocal other than saying, ‘I’m with her,’” Winfrey said, “is because I didn’t know what I could say that could actually pierce through all the noise, and the chaos, and the disgusting vitriol that is going on, and actually be heard.” 

 UPDATED 3/2: After Oprah Winfrey joked that she wasn’t ruling out a presidential run, her close friend Gayle King weighed in Thursday on CBS This Morning to say that it was most likely just that — a joke. 
 
 “You always have the right to change your mind but I would bet my first, second born and any unborn children to come, that ain’t never happening,” she said. “Never. I’ll say never on this one.” 
 
 ORIGINAL: Oprah Winfrey said that she is not so dismissive of the idea of running for president. 
 
 In an interview with Bloomberg Media’s David Rubenstein, Winfrey said that she “never considered the question, even the possibility. I just thought, ‘Oh. Oh.'” 
 
 Rubenstein then referred to Trump’s election, as he is the first figure to ascend to the presidency with no government and military experience. 
 
 Winfrey said, “I thought, ‘I don’t have the experience. I don’t know enough.’ And now I am thinking, ‘Oh.'” 
 
 It is unclear just how serious she was. 
 
 Winfrey did get involved in the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, holding fundraisers for his candidacy and, in 2007 and 2008, appearing at rallies in Iowa, South Carolina and California. One study showed that Winfrey’s endorsement of Obama generated a “statistically and qualitatively significant increase” in votes for him in the Democratic primary. 
 
 Winfrey backed Hillary Clinton in the most recent presidential election, but she did not campaign for her.
– An #Oprah2020 hashtag popped up on Twitter Wednesday, and it wasn't spurred by some random liberal pipe dream, but by the person the Daily Beast describes as our "national darling." In an interview with Carlyle Group CEO David Rubenstein for his Bloomberg Television talk show, Winfrey said she'd never seriously considered a run because she has no government experience. But then Donald Trump came along and moved into the Oval Office, a fact that Winfrey says has made her rethink her original assessment. "I thought, 'Oh gee, I don't have the experience, I don't know enough.' … And now I'm thinking—oh," she told Rubenstein, who added "it's clear" that a resume packed with government know-how is no longer required for the job. Variety reports that what wasn't clear was Oprah's seriousness on the matter, though it notes she was an active participant in Barack Obama's two presidential runs, taking part in fundraisers and rallies. She was also a Hillary Clinton supporter, though she said in October she didn't make more noise on that front because she didn't think anyone would hear her over all of the "disgusting vitriol," per the Huffington Post. (Oprah recently shared why she never had kids.)