If you caught the speech by Argentinian president Javier Milei to the United Nations last week and found it particularly inspiring, you might want to thank Aaron Sorkin.
Milei appears to have lifted big chunks of dialogue from The West Wing for his first address to the General Assembly. The heavily quoted elements of the speech were not exactly word-for-word with an episode from the show’s fourth season—specifically the 15th episode, where President Jed Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, spoke with his staff—but they were remarkably close.
