Who said it: Donald Trump or Frank Underwood?

Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, left, and Donald Trump. Composite: Getty

The leader of the free world is a brazen narcissist, backed by a team of underlings who would literally walk over your face without a second thought if it got their boss four more years in the Oval Office.

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Excellent, but let me ask you this: was I just referring to Donald Trump or Frank Underwood? It’s hard to tell, isn’t it? True, Underwood is a fiction, the key protagonist of the TV drama House of Cards, while Trump is in charge of the world’s most terrifying military arsenal. But they have so much in common - a free and easy attitude towards the truth, an approach to ascending the greasy pole that defies the laws of gravity and a grasp of the basic moves of Niccolo Machiavelli’s philosophy.

To celebrate House of Cards’ fifth season, which starts this week, here’s a test to see if you can tell the Donald from our Frank.

1. Democracy is so overrated

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

2. The point is, you can never be too greedy

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

3. As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

4. I’ve always said that power is more important than money, but when it comes to elections, money gives power, well, a run for its money

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

5. A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

6. This country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. And if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

7. The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

8. One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

9. Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war

   1. Frank Underwood

   2. Donald Trump

10. You know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

11. For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

12. Friends make the worst enemies

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

13. My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

14. There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

15. I thought being president would be easier than my old life

    1. Frank Underwood

    2. Donald Trump

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:A, 7:A, 8:B, 9:B, 10:B, 11:A, 12:A, 13:B, 14:A, 15:B

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