John Legend says he’ll throw his support behind virtually anyone who wins the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

“I’m looking forward to getting behind whoever wins the nomination. I think [he or she will] be imminently more qualified than the current president and will take us in a better direction,” the “All of Me” singer said Wednesday.

But Legend — whose 2008 song, “If You’re Out There,” was inspired by former President Obama’s White House bid — isn’t naming names when it comes to which potential 2020 candidate he hopes to back. “I’m not singling anybody out because we’re going to try to help whoever the nominee is,” he said.

When pressed by ITK on whether he really meant “whoever,” Legend replied with a chuckle, “I’m not going to say whoever, because who knows what the nomination process could lead to. We saw what happened with the GOP last time, and I’m thinking how many of them could’ve predicted that.”

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“But I’m going to assume that we’re going to nominate somebody who’s good on the issues, and progressive, and wants to take the country in a better direction. And if that’s the case, then we’ll get behind them,” the 38-year-old performer added.

He is a consistent critic of President Trump, tweeting in September that Trump "is only consistently loyal to white supremacists and Putin."

Legend was one of eight sets of winners being honored Wednesday at Smithsonian magazine’s American Ingenuity Awards at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The sixth annual awards celebrate the “pioneering nature of American intellectual achievement.”

While Legend was honored in the Performing Arts category, other winners included: film director Ava DuVernay; Sesame Workshop’s Sherrie Rollins Westin, Christine Ferraro, and Leslie Kimmelman; Apple chief design officer Jony Ive; #1000BlackGirlBooks creator Marley Dias; NASA scientist Natalie Batalha; neurosurgeon Gary Steinberg; and creator and director of Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin.

Also eyed at the star-studded ceremony: singer Josh Groban, Rep. Doris Matsui Doris Okada MatsuiDemocratic lawmaker calls telehealth expansion the 'silver lining' of pandemic The Hill's 12:30 Report: Delegates stage state-centric videos for the roll call Overnight Health Care: Obama leans into Trump criticism on coronavirus | CDC gives 3-month window for COVID-19 immunity MORE (D-Calif.), record producer Quincy Jones, actor David Oyelowo, Smithsonian magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Caruso and lobbyist Heather Podesta.