President Trump said Tuesday he doesn't think Oprah Winfrey will run in 2020, but if she did, he'd beat her. 
 
 Mr. Trump, taking reporters' questions during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, addressed speculation that Oprah could run for president in 2020 after her lauded speech at the Golden Globes Sunday. 
 
 "Can you beat Oprah?" a reporter asked. 
 
 "I'd beat Oprah," the president said. "Oprah would be a lot of fun. I know her very well. ... I like Oprah. I don't think she's going to run. I don't think she's going to run." 
 
 The president also noted he has appeared on her show. 
 
 Mr. Trump has praised Oprah on Twitter in the past. 
 
 By the way, where is @Oprah? Good question. 4 years ago she strongly supported Obama--now she is silent. Anyway, who cares, I adore Oprah. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2012 
 
 Going back even further, when Mr. Trump first considered running for president in 2000, he mentioned that Winfrey would be an ideal running mate. 
 
 CBS News' Jillian Hughes contributed to this report. ||||| Story highlights Oprah Winfrey is "intrigued by the idea" of a presidential run, a friend said 
 
 President Donald Trump weighed in on Tuesday 
 
 Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would beat Oprah Winfrey in a potential 2020 presidential match-up, though he doesn't think she will end up running. 
 
 "Yeah, I'll beat Oprah," he told reporters in the the Cabinet Room during a meeting on immigration with members of Congress. 
 
 Winfrey is "intrigued by the idea" of a presidential bid, best friend and CBS "This Morning" co-anchor Gayle King said Tuesday, and is taking the idea seriously, per friends of the former talk show host. Her speech on the #MeToo movement at Sunday's Golden Globes propelled Winfrey to the forefront of political conversation on Monday, with the potential to disrupt the Democratic primary process and pose a strong challenge to Trump in 2020. 
 
 "Oprah will be a lot of fun," Trump said Tuesday, noting that he knows Winfrey "very well" and appeared with his family on one of the final episodes of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." 
 
 "I did one of her last shows. She had Donald Trump -- this is before politics -- her last week and she had Donald Trump and my family, it was very nice," the President said. 
 
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– Everybody's talking about the possibility of Oprah running for president, but the man currently in office doesn't think it will happen. "I don't think she's going to run," President Trump told reporters Tuesday, per CBS News. If she did, however, Trump said he'd win. "I'd beat Oprah," he said, before adding that he liked her and once appeared on her show with his family. "It was very nice." Trump does indeed apparently like Oprah, as CNN recounts. He told Larry King back in 1999 that she'd be the ideal running mate were he ever to run for president. "She's popular, she's brilliant, she's a wonderful woman," he said. "It would be a pretty good ticket." More recently, in 2012, he tweeted that "I adore Oprah." (Plenty of columnists have weighed in on why she shouldn't run.)