Kevin Spacey threw down the gauntlet on the Trump presidency saying, that House of Cards has better writers when he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Colbert quizzed Spacey about where they get their ideas from and the star of House of Cards made it clear that they don't look to real events for inspiration it's just a strange thing that happens.

'At some point between when we’ve shot the season and before it drops there are three or four or five things that we have dealt with on the show happen that end up happening in the real world.’ Explains Spacey. ‘And we go, everyone’s going to assume that we stole it from the headlines but in fact, we did it first.’

‘I have to say in all honesty, I think we’ve never been more relevant. I do believe we have better writers. I have to say, it’s been very entertaining.'

You can watch the clip below. It’s worth it just for Spacey’s impression of Christopher Walken.

Spacey has a bit of form when it comes to impressions. He’s previously done a very convincing Christopher Walken at the AFI awards. He also does a bit of bonus Jack Nicholson which is made even more fun because Jack Nicholson is in the room.

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