Fox News Panel Gets Tense After Guest Says Obama Has ‘Mommy Issues’: It’s the Holidays, You’re ‘Better’ Than That

‘Tis the season…to bring up mommy issues?

Wednesday on America’s Newsroom, panelist Brad Blakeman — an ex-assistant to former President George W. Bush — went off on President Barack Obama over a comment he made Monday night saying that the U.S. is plagued by, among other things, “mommy issues.” Although Obama didn’t directly mention President Donald Trump, Blakeman believes that Trump was indeed the target of Obama’s remark. And he was — we’re quoting here — “outraged by it.”

“We had first biracial president who missed a great opportunity to bring this country together because of who and what he was — half-white and half-black,” Blakeman said. “If anybody has mommy issues it’s the president. I never heard him talk about his mom, President Obama. And to allege racism and mommy issues — and he was talking about the president — is beyond the pale.”

Fill-in co-host Jon Scott followed up with a question and a tone that suggested he couldn’t quite believe what he’d just heard.

“You think that the president — the former president, I should say, did not — well, did not mention his mother deliberately?!”

“I’m just saying…I never heard him talk about his mother,” Blakeman said. “Ever in a public forum…if somebody has mommy issues, perhaps he should look at himself.”

Tension ensued.

“I’m just gonna say, into the holiday season, you’re much better than that,” former Obama advisor Robert Wolf said.

“Let’s leave moms out of it,” co-host Sandra Smith added.

Watch above, via Fox News.