Meet Poet Amanda Gorman From the 2021 Inauguration
Get to Know Amanda Gorman, the Young Poet Who Stunned at the 2021 Inauguration
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She was just a performer at the most recent inauguration, but Gorman already has her eyes on a bigger prize: being sworn in as president herself! "This is a long, long, faraway goal, but 2036 I am running for office to be president of the United States," she told The New York Times in 2017. "So you can put that in your iCloud calendar."
As of 2021, it looks like she's still planning on that goal! She posed with the Clintons at the inauguration, and Hillary Clinton tweeted the photo, captioning it, "Wasn't @TheAmandaGorman's poem just stunning? She's promised to run for president in 2036 and I for one can't wait."