White House tells Chuck Lorre to ‘seek psychiatric help’ after gala speech on Trump

TV producer Chuck Lorre, creator of “The Big Bang Theory,” used an acceptance speech at a Los Angeles charity gala to mock President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.

Mr. Lorre, 73, was honored Sept. 26 at Project Angel Food’s Angel Awards with the Founders Angel Award, the charity’s highest honor and one it has given only once before in its 37-year history. The group, which prepares medically tailored meals for seriously ill Angelenos, says his foundation helped make possible its new kitchen, which it says tripled its annual meal-production capacity to more than 4.5 million meals.

Rather than deliver a conventional thank-you, Mr. Lorre told the crowd his profession obliged him to joke about the president, according to the Daily Beast. In his remarks, Mr. Lorre asserted that Mr. Trump is a “Russian asset” and joked that he checks CNN each morning to see whether the president has had a heart attack. He also compared the first lady unfavorably with Michelle Obama, characterizing Mrs. Trump as an escort who is “a surgically enhanced, cold-hearted Yugoslavian escort who clearly hates her husband.” He closed with a riff on the Serenity Prayer in which he alleged that Mr. Trump traded teenagers with Jeffrey Epstein. Those characterizations and allegations are Mr. Lorre’s own.

The remarks were not limited to Republicans. Mr. Lorre urged the Democratic National Committee to run from “the suicidal insanity of the far-left woke culture” ahead of the midterms, then joked that those workers would likely die of measles because Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told them not to get vaccinated.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle, responding to Fox News Digital, said Mr. Lorre “should immediately seek psychiatric help to treat his severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain.”