From Biden’s Potemkin Presidency to Trump’s Potemkin War

From Biden’s Potemkin Presidency to Trump’s Potemkin War

AI image that Trump posted to his social media accounts. In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America’s two most recent presidents. In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to deceive Catherine the Great about the condition of the peasants she ruled. “Potemkin Village,” according to Time magazine, …