'House of Cards' fans noticed something awfully familiar about that Putin-Trump meeting

Forget that handshake, today's drama was all about the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin sit-down that happened earlier today -- and it was something straight out of House of Cards, which the internet quickly noticed.

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Yeah, that's straight up life imitating art, right down to Putin having almost the exact same facial expression as Viktor Petrov, the president of Russia in the House of Cards universe, who seems as excited by a smiling Frank Underwood as Putin is by Trump.

It's hardly the first time the show and reality have blurred to the point of it being hard to tell which is which, like those Comey tweets or the NSA hacking report.

For full frame of reference, here's video of Trump and Putin's public comments, made just before they went behind closed doors.

And here is a GIF from the Petrov-Underwood handshake scene in House Of Cards.

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Time is just a flat circle, what's fake is real and what's real is fake and who even are we if not just numbers floating in the matrix, comrade?