The year is 2020 and Oprah Winfrey is president

By Natalie Reilly
Updated January 20 2018 - 1:53am, first published 1:47am

Oprah Winfrey broke new ground in 2018 at the Golden Globes, when she delivered a stirring acceptance speech that was part sermon, part battle cry and part State of the Union address. Calls for her to run as the next US president were initially dismissed, (mainly by old white men, unable to grasp her power) before an official campaign was mounted in the spring of 2019.