President Donald Trump used a scene from the television drama “The West Wing” to justify the U.S. military’s renewed strikes on Iran.
The Republican president shared the clip on Truth Social on Tuesday, the same day U.S. forces carried out a fresh round of strikes targeting Iranian air defense systems, ground control facilities and radar sites. U.S. Central Command described the operation as “a proportional response” after a U.S. helicopter was downed in the Strait of Hormuz.
The 90-second clip, taken from Season 1 of “The West Wing,” shows a fictional president, portrayed by Martin Sheen, meeting with military advisers to debate how to respond after Syria shot down an American aircraft.
In the scene, Sheen’s character challenges the logic of proportional retaliation, arguing that adversaries anticipate such measured responses.
“You kill an American, any American, we don’t come back with a proportionate response,” he says, striking the table. “We come back with total disaster.”
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