So, Uh, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy Dropped into the Grammys

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The foreign leader made a plea to Americans to share the truth about the war in Ukraine in a minute-long video appearance at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

In the middle of Sunday night’s 2022 Grammy Awards, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise appearance via a pre-taped video clip to ask Americans to speak up about the humanitarian crisis taking place in Ukraine. John Legend accompanied his message on the piano as well as a Ukrainian poet who, according to the telecast, had fled Ukraine “days ago.

While the Grammys’ buttoned-up show had just paid homage to Ukraine in the way the Oscars could only dream of, it still felt… off. And in a truly surreal tonal shift, mere moments later, Lady Gaga came onstage and started...scatting. Addressing a literal war that has the potential to become a global nuclear war in the midst of some of Hollywood’s most outlandish and glitzy events, where VIP attendees often walk away with gift bags, is always going to be incredibly awkward.

 

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Good. What's your point?

so it became a literal Nazi rally

Even if he is just a puppet, I can think of at least 15 better uses for his time than this.

Where was the representative of Yemen? Haiti? Women from Afghanistan? Just more white men getting preferential treatment. Fitting for the same night Louis C.K. won a Grammy...

shaboom So, Uh, that's good or no? What's the slant?

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