On Sunday, the 79th annual Tony Awards premiered on CBS, pushing the typical left-wing awards show narcissism that audiences have learned to avoid. Pop star Pink, who once mocked Charlie Kirk's funeral, served as the host and peppered her opening monologue with leftist shibboleths as she rattled off nominated plays. “This year, the worst parts of history began repeating itself, and we were given Ragtime and Liberation. This year, our country grew more divided than ever, and we were given Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). This year, our trans siblings started to lose even more rights, and we were given Cats: The Jellicle Ball," she said. P!nk says this year’s #TonyAwards lineup reflected “what the state of the world” is like today. “This year the worst parts of history began repeating itself, and we were given ‘Ragtime’ and ‘Liberation.’ This year our country grew more divided than ever, and we were given ‘Two… pic.twitter.com/y8Ov2EE7DP — Variety (@Variety) June 8, 2026 The trend of speaking in apocalyptic language about the state of the country and the world is a staple of awards shows when Trump is President. John Lithgow, who won Best Leading Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Roald Dahl in Giant, told the audience during his speech that Giant "is a play about cruelty in a cruel age, and it is an extraordinarily important play at this moment."  The most over-the-top political speech came from Ali Louis Bourzgui, winner of Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the vampire musical The Lost Boys. His rambling speech managed to toss together the words "queer," "trans," "Palestine," "colonizers," "Arab theater makers" and "vampires" in one big verbal blender. Ali Louis Bourzgui throws in every left-wing cause imaginable in his acceptance speech. pic.twitter.com/aC56ji8mCb — HollywoodClips (@awardshowclips) June 8, 2026 Liberation, by Bess Wohl won Best Play.  According to The New York Times, Liberation is a feminist play "about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio." Sounds fun! When accepting her award, Wohl delusionally said, "Thank you for believing that an ensemble play about women's lives belonged on Broadway."  Ensemble plays about women's lives have been on Broadway for decades, from Wendy Wasserstein's work in the late 1980s and 90s to popular musicals like Dreamgirls. In the last decade alone, Tony Award-winning works with female ensemble casts have included Six and Suffs, to name just a few. On what planet does Wohl imagine that plays about women are being kept from the stage? During the latter half of the ceremony, Pink told the audience: "The powers that be are closing in on the First Amendment. As the strongholds of free speech fall, I think it's important that Broadway stands strong and sticks to its values. Hell yeah! Soon, you may not be able to say what you believe." The left constantly imagines that their free speech is going to be suppressed when they spent most of the Biden Administration clamping down on the free speech of conservatives and Republicans. They project their behavior onto their opposition. "I think I'm scared of how free speech is slowly eroding before our eyes, but I'm encouraged, because I think Broadway is actually succeeding at the task of speaking truth to power, and I'm proud to be part of this community," actor Bobby Cannavale told Pink. The level of arrogance and imagined superiority in the New York theater world may actually beat out even Hollywood. Tourists buy Broadway tickets to hear actors sing, dance, and entertain. The Tony Awards remind audiences every year that these artists view everyone outside their bubble with contempt.