Obama Channels “House of Cards”‘ Frank Underwood
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Netflix(WASHINGTON) — President Obama channeled one of Washington’s most sinister figures on Thursday: ruthless House of Cards President Frank Underwood.
“Hello everybody. This is not Frank Underwood, this is Barack Obama,” Obama deadpanned in a West Wing Week video posted to YouTube Friday, aping Underwood’s trademark Southern drawl.
“Happy April Fool’s Day,” the president added, still in character. “Frank learned it from me.”
The video also included outtakes from past episodes of West Wing Week, the White House’s documentary web series, including footage of Obama making faces at the camera, grooving to some tunes on a couch in the Oval Office, rehearsing a swearing-in ceremony, posing for a presidential portrait — “I feel like the girl with the pearl earring” — and thanking Zach Galifianakis for the “really neat” Between Two Ferns interview.
The outtakes proves that even presidents get the giggles sometimes: “I’m feeling a little silly right now, so I gotta settle down,” the president says with a laugh, trying to compose himself. “Whew.”
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