The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable -- like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest.

Brando wanted to highlight how Indians were badly portrayed by Hollywood -- as he made an Italian mobster movie, which surely didn't lead to any ethnic stereotyping whatsoever.

For the last 10 years, awards shows have predictably erupted in melodramatic celebrity proclamations against the horrors of Donald Trump. This year, the leftists were already upset that there wasn't enough celebrity shrieking at the Golden Globes. But they were delighted by the Grammy Awards.

That Democrat rag The Washington Post tweeted this: "Politics are often treated like radioactive material on Grammy night, writes Post pop music critic Chris Richards. But on Sunday, something changed. The world outside had finally become too loud to........

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