Minutes before President Trump tweeted in defense of his mental fitness this morning, Fox & Friends slammed the media coverage of, well, his mental fitness.

The Fox & Friends hosts knocked anti-Trump bias in the media before Pete Hegseth said, “Now they’re all psychologists who can diagnose the mental health of the President.”

They showed clips of a few people raising the question of Trump’s mental fitness, including on The View.

“Either he’s mentally unfit and totally incompetent,” Hegseth said, “or he’s the mastermind of the greatest collusion of all time and an absolute genius. The media can’t decide which one they want, and they go with the convenient narrative of the moment.”

And in case there was any ambiguity, this chyron ran during the segment:

This segment was airing around 7:10 am ET, minutes before…

Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence….. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star….. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

Watch above, via Fox News.

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