Oprah for US president? Speech fuels talk

New York

COULD Oprah Winfrey run for president and beat Donald Trump? Hollywood, liberals and fans are abuzz with speculation that the billionaire chat show queen is harbouring White House ambitions after delivering an impassioned Golden Globes speech over the weekend.

Ms Winfrey had barely heralded a "new day" following a sexual harassment watershed, before calls snowballed for one of America's most famous women, a self-made tycoon born into poverty, to run for the highest office in the free world.