Psaki says binge-watching ‘The West Wing’ brought her back to politics

White House press secretary Jen Psaki says binge-watching “The West Wing” helped inspire her to get back into politics.

Psaki started watching the award-winning TV drama after leaving the Obama White House in 2011, feeling exhausted, she remarked during an appearance last week on actor Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast. 

“I’m working at this consulting firm and I started watching ‘The West Wing.’ And I don’t know what prompted me to watch it, but I watched, I binged, the entire thing,” Psaki said.

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“In a crazy way, it really brought me back to come back to politics and I ended up coming back and doing the 2012 campaign, and traveling with then-President Obama on his reelection,” Psaki added. “So I was basically gone for like six months, and then I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to go back, I’ve got to go back.'”

In the TV series, which ended in 2006, Rob Lowe, 57, played fictional Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn. 

WEST WING — SEASON 1 — Pictured: Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn — Photo by: Steve Schapiro/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

Psaki, 43, first began as deputy White House press secretary under Obama and was later elevated to the role that the character of Seaborn held in the series.

Psaki remarked that Lowe’s character of Seaborn was inspiring because of the character’s idealism in the show, which she called “the best of [what] Washington is.”

THE WEST WING — SEASON 3 — Pictured: (l-r) Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet, Janel Moloney as Donna Moss, Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, Martin Sheen as President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, John Spencer as Leo McGarry, Dule Hill as Charlie Hill, Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman, Allison Janney as Claudia Jean ‘C.J.’…