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White House Urges Chuck Lorre to Seek Psychiatric Help After Profanity-Laced Attack on Trump, First Lady
TV producer Chuck Lorre used a Hollywood charity gala to insult President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, prompting a sharp rebuke from the White House and criticism over a Hollywood double standard.
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle called on television producer Chuck Lorre to immediately seek psychiatric help after the sitcom creator delivered a profanity-laced speech attacking President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at a Los Angeles charity gala last Saturday.
Lorre, the creator of «The Big Bang Theory,» «Two and a Half Men» and «Mom,» was honored at the Project Angel Food Angel Awards after his foundation made what the charity described as a transformational contribution. Project Angel Food provides medically tailored meals to people facing critical and life-threatening illnesses.
During his acceptance speech, Lorre repeatedly turned to politics, telling the crowd that his «need to cause laughter» compelled him to do so. He called the president a «Russian asset» and joked about checking whether Trump had suffered a fatal heart attack. Regarding Melania Trump, he called the first lady «a surgically enhanced, cold-hearted Yugoslavian escort who clearly hates her husband.»
The White House responded in a statement to Fox News Digital. «Chuck Lorre should immediately seek psychiatric help to treat his severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain,» Ingle said.
Lorre also criticized Democrats, calling on the Democratic National Committee to «run from the suicidal insanity of the far-left woke culture in the coming election,» before taking aim at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his views on vaccines. He ended the speech by offering his own version of the Serenity Prayer, asking for «the courage to say Donald Trump is a Russian asset who traded teenagers with Jeffrey Epstein, and the wisdom to end on a cheap laugh.»
Film critic and Hollywood in Toto founder Christian Toto told Fox News Digital that Lorre's attack on the first lady highlights what he sees as a glaring double standard in Hollywood. «Generally speaking, we don't attack first ladies. It's just sort of an unspoken rule,» Toto said. «They weren't elected. They're just supporting their husbands, so by and large, even comedians won't go there. But when it comes to First Lady Melania Trump, they go there, they go there a lot.»
Toto added that comparing her to an escort is «obviously factually incorrect for the obvious, but also just cruel.» He said that for all the talk in Hollywood about trying to treat women better and the #MeToo movement, he found the remark «rather inappropriate, to say the least.»
Toto argued that Hollywood's reaction would be different if a conservative producer targeted a Democratic figure. «If Michelle Obama was the target of such a cruel attack, I think it would get a lot of attention. There might even be a call for him to apologize for his comments,» he said.
He also criticized celebrities for discussing political issues at charity or non-political events. «When you think about speaking at an event, it's almost like you're on a first date—you don't bring up abortion, you don't bring up gun control, you don't bring up all these sort of hot-button issues,» Toto said. «It just seems odd that you'd go really hard political, but the celebrities do it for two reasons. One, they can't help themselves and two, no one's going to critique them, no one is going to fact-check them. So, they can say whatever they want. So, it's a very indulgent process, but it shows no sign of stopping.»
Lorre's remarks come amid a broader debate over political rhetoric in entertainment, including recent calls by Melania Trump for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over what she described as hateful and violent rhetoric. Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Lorre but did not hear back.
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