[Reality-TV-Fanatics] NBC Dumps Oprah “Future President” Tweet; Says It Was Based On A “Joke”

 

  So why dump the tweet? LOL

NBC Dumps Oprah "Future President" Tweet; Says It Was Based On A "Joke"

by Dominic Patten

January 8, 2018 8:10am

Oprah Winfrey may or may not be running for President in 2020 but NBC is not backing her, the network made awkwardly clear this morning amidst post-Golden Globes political blowback.

"The tweet was sent out by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the live broadcast," a spokesperson for the Comcast-owned network said this morning of the social media post proclaiming the media mogul as "our future president" early in last night's awards show. "It is in reference to a joke made during the opening monologue and not meant to be a political statement.  We have since removed the tweet."

Well, yes, the past home of the Donald Trump fronted Celebrity Apprentice have dropped the tweet but here's a screengrab of it anyway:

Host Seth Meyers in his often-sputtering monologue delivered the "joke" in question with a reference to what may or may not have caused our current POTUS to get off reality TV and into the political arena.

"In 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents' Dinner," the Late Night host told the black attired crowd at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday. "Jokes about how he was unqualified to be president. Some have said that night convinced him to run," Meyers added. "So if that's true, I just want to say: Oprah, you will never be president! You do not have what it takes!"

As Meyers uttered that punch line, the camera went to Winfrey reacting with laughter in the audience. Soon after the tweet in question appeared. Oddly, on a night when he was clearly on his phone, there wasn't a tweet from President Trump about the matter or the Globes themselves.

Accepting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement ward later in the evening, Winfrey gave a stirring speech that certainly lit up social media and more with hopes that she would actually pursue a White House bid against Trump or another Republican. However, Oprah hasn't tipped her intentions for high office either way – despite NBC's now shuttered and clumsy endorsement of sorts.

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