- Russian disinformation produces fake video “showing” a grinning Joe Biden beating up Angela Merkel and David Cameron.
- July’s All-Star game telecast replaces play-by-play icon Vin Scully with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
- Russian MIGs buzz Marine One returning from Camp David, just to show they can.
- That preserved corpse of Lenin ? Mysteriously on display in the US Senate rotunda.
- On Circle Line cruises around Manhattan, Prime Minister Medvedev points out all the Russian skyscrapers, bridges, landmarks & marine life.
- Russians appear to withdraw military units from Crimea. “Just kidding,” Putin laughs the next day.
- Every day until January 19th, “soup of the day” at the White House Mess is borscht.
- Hourly shuttles connecting DC, New York and Boston operated entirely by Aeroflot.
- Slipped into new US Postal Service “National Parks” campaign: a colorful “Visit the Kremlin” stamp.
…and the NUMBER ONE VLADIMIR PUTIN PRANK to be COMPLETED by JANUARY 20, 2017:
- Fourth race at Hialeah features a strangely familiar jockey, riding shirtless.
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