Wednesday’s CNN Tonight had no chance of surpassing the hall of shame lunacy showcased the day before following the Trump rally calling out the President’s mental health. However, host Don Lemon briefly lashed out at people who called him out, spreading lies that critics should “know better” and not make “a political point” by saying Trump’s sanity is being questioned.

“Yeah and I think that, you know, when — when people criticize and say, oh, they are questioning the President's sanity and all that, they know better. They're just — they’re doing it just, you know, just because to make a political point of some sort,” Lemon whined in a segment with faux Republican Mike Murphy and The Atlantic’s James Fallows.

As a reminder, here’s a small snippet of what Lemon said about Trump on Tuesday:

He's unhinged, it's embarrassing and I don't mean for us, the media because he went after us, but for the country. This is who we elected President of the United States. A man who is so petty that he has to go after people who he deems to be his enemy, like an imaginary friend of a six-year-old. His speech was without thought, it was without reason, it was devoid of facts, it was devoid of wisdom. There was no gravitas. There was no sanity. He was like a child blaming a sibling on something else....A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning those business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable. A man backed into a corner it seems by circumstances beyond his control and beyond his understanding....This petty, this small, a person who's supposed to pull the country together?

Murphy was supposed to be Lemon’s Yes Man, but he didn’t go along as he argued that he doesn’t “believe the crazy Trump theory” but rather he’s just “a narcissist” with “an impulse control problem.”

This didn’t sit well with Lemon, who pushed back but also tried to not suggest Trump’s insane or mentally ill (as he did last night):

LEMON: Yeah, but you know, when someone says unfit or — MURPHY: — but it's his crazy rhetoric has been worse than his actions which have been more rational. LEMON: But that’s what you — you’re smart. You know that when someone says — when people say unfit they don't necessarily mean crazy. They just mean unfit for the job.

Fallows bolstered Lemon’s case about fitness by explaining that it means “being aware that every single second of your life, every utterance you put out, every word you say or don't say, every phrase has consequences around the world and in this country.”

The problem is that this wasn’t the only accusation Lemon and his rowdy leftist friends like Maria Cardona, Symone Sanders, Brian Stelter, and Rick Wilson tried to do on Tuesday (along with CNN colleague Ana Navarro).

As exhibited by the works of both this writer and Nicholas Fondacaro, CNN Tonight absolutely pushed the notion that Trump’s mental illness and instability have caused the American people to be “scared” about what might happen to them.

With that being an absurdly small Cliffnotes version of Tuesday night, Lemon then made the claim that those saying the President’s sanity has been questioned are partisans trying to score points. Lemon seemingly walked to Tuesday’s ledge throughout the show, but never went off.

While speaking to foreign policy expert David Rohde, Lemon stood up for former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper following his clicks-bonanza interview fretting about Trump’s mental stability:

DAVID ROHDE: Well, startling, frightening and everything else. He used another phrase, though, that — I don't — I don’t like the whole that he's crazy argument. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s being incredibly divisive for political reasons but something that Clapper said was that he’s — LEMON: Listen, listen. Before you go there, he did clarify and said he didn't mean crazy meaning mentally but he was just saying fit for office in his actions and whether he was prepared to do the job.

Here’s the relevant transcript from August 23's CNN Tonight with Don Lemon: