For the second day in a row, NBC’s Peter Alexander and Yahoo’s Hunter Walker asked questions from the far-left in Wednesday’s White House press briefing, insinuating to Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that people should be concerned that President Trump is behaving like a mentally ill authoritarian.

Alexander kicked things off part way through the tense briefing, smugly informing Sanders that he had “a couple of questions,” all of which he’d “try to make these simple.”

Following a brief retort from Sanders, Alexander first asked if Donald Trump Jr. committed treason by attending the now-infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer. Sanders responded that it was “a ridiculous accusation,” but Alexander’s craziest question came moments later.

Alexander seemed to be channeling CNN’s Brian Stelter when he wondered:

If I can ask you, after the tweet about nuclear threats — the nuclear button tweet threat. Should Americans be concerned about the president's mental fitness? That he appears to speak so lightly about threats regarding a nuclear button?

Sanders replied that the American people shouldn’t be worried that Trump is mentally ill, but instead “be concerned about the mental fitness” of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un because of his “repeated threats” and increased missile tests.

For the briefing’s final exchange, Walker chose to ask this one day after his golf questions that included an allusion to the infamous white box truck:

In the last day or so, we've seen President Trump attack the press, the Justice Department and now his former ally Steve Bannon. By attacking critics and key institutions in our democracy, isn't the President engaging in authoritarian behavior?

The White House Press Secretary wasn’t appear startled by this asinine assertion in the same week as the anti-regime protests in Iran, but Sanders nonetheless told Walker that Trump isn’t a dictator.

Instead, she argued that Trump “is simply responding often to the news of the day” and the country is in “a dangerous place” if Trump “can't respond aggressively to an individual like the leader of North Korea that continues to threaten Americans.”

Walker hit back by comparing Trump to the murderous North Korean leader: “But when the President calls for critics to be fired from their jobs, that's not the President of North Korea.”

So classy. Torpedoing the media’s credibility and appearance of neutrality, one day at a time.

Here’s the relevant transcript from January 3's White House press briefing