Ellen DeGeneres, honored in Washington DC this week with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, had a few things to say about who will be occupying The White House come January.

She’s hoping it’s not Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

‘If you’re a woman, you should be very, very scared of that, for many reasons,’ DeGeneres told Politco.com before the start of the event. ‘And obviously as a gay person he doesn’t believe in me having the same rights, so of course I’m not happy about that.’

DeGeneres is married to actress Portia de Rossi and is well aware that Romney is opposed to same-sex marriage. He is in favor of an amendment to the US constitution which would prevent marriages from being recognized on a federal level – even in states where they are legal.

‘I am certainly hoping our president stays put,’ she says of incumbent Barack Obama who is involved in a tight race with Romney.

But it is not just LGBT rights that concern DeGeneres about Romney. She also said that ‘as a woman who wants to have the choice to do what she wants to do with her own body,’ she’s especially concerned about Obama being reelected.