President Barack Obama tried to impersonate Kevin Spacey’s smarmy House of Cards character Frank Underwood in a belated April Fools’ Day clip and was…not that good at it.
The footage is part of a video posted on the White House’s YouTube page on April 2 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the West Wing Week video series, which covers the presidency.
“Hello, everybody,” Obama says, attempting a Southern accent and staring at the camera amid a backdrop of a painting of President Abraham Lincoln. “This is not Frank Underwood. This is Barack Obama. Happy April Fools’ Day. Frank learned it from me.”