Self-proclaimed journalist Tucker Carlson created an internet firestorm less for his challenging enough interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin but more for his obsequious Potemkin tour of Moscow. Broadcast as a series of X shorts to publicize his new independent media venture, Carlson gasps in childlike wonder as he discovers the banalities of Russian daily life.

In his self-described attempt to debunk anti-Soviet-style propaganda, former Fox News host Carlson — estimated net worth: $30 million — goes to a grocery store and reveals he has not been to an American Aldi in this century.