As House of Cards returns we look at how Frank Underwood’s sound bites hold up against Trump’s – and more importantly, if you can tell them apart

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.