Trump aide Steven Cheung melts down as MSNBC host questions president's mental health

Top White House aide Steven Cheung didn't hold back his raging response when he caught wind of Lawrence O'Donnell's psychological assessment of President Donald Trump, according to the Daily Beast.

O'Donnell wondered aloud on his MSNBC show whether Trump's mental health was suffering because he was unable to answer whether it was the president's duty to uphold the Constitution.

“Every high school student in America is supposed to know the answer to that question, which is one word: 'Yes,'" O’Donnell said. “But Donald Trump’s answer was ‘I don’t know’—which could be a sign of mental illness or could be a sign of early-stage dementia."

O'Donnell continued, "In Donald Trump’s case, stupidity is the most innocent explanation for his ‘I don’t know.' But during mental health month, we have a right to consider other possibilities.”

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In a statement to the Daily Beast, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung raged that O'Donnell was “clearly suffering from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain.”

Cheung then changed the subject to former President Joe Biden.

“President Trump aced his cognitive test, meanwhile Joe Biden’s handlers refused to allow him to take one out of fear of what was apparent to the entire world—his mind was severely in decline and lacked the intelligence to lead the country,” Cheung said. “People like Lawrence are complicit in the coverup to hide Biden’s condition, and he knows he’ll have to live the rest of his life reconciling the fact he helped deceive the American people.”

Daily Beast reporter Tom Sanders wrote, "Cheung has made a habit of accusing anyone who criticizes the president of having 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'—including The Daily Beast Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles, whom he called a 'piece of s---' who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome in an unhinged rant."

On the Daily Beast Podcast, Coles ridiculed Cheung's "recycled insults."

“I wanna recommend, as my medical diagnosis for Steven Cheung, that he buy a thesaurus,” she said. “Get a little more creative.”

Read the Daily Beast story here.