President Donald Trump‘s handling of former President Joe Biden‘s recent prostate cancer diagnosis has vacillated between expressing sympathy over the seriousness of the illness and calling for transparency surrounding his predecessor’s tenure.

CNN erupted into chaos during a live panel discussion following Joe Biden's announcement and the fiery segment quickly escalated into a shouting match

Oncologist and former Biden advisor Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel said on MSNBC that the former president most likely had prostate cancer years before the news dropped.

President Trump has said that those around Biden "knew he was cognitively impaired" and "took over the autopen."

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer last week, his office said in a statement on Sunday. The news came after it was revealed that a "small nodule" was detected during a "routine physical exam," a spokesperson for the former president told ABC News on May 13.

But Trump has defended his onetime opponent following the shock announcement that Biden has a very aggressive form of prostate cancer. Trump is claiming that a shadowy cabal of White House advisors took advantage of Biden’s cognitive decline for their own benefit, the Daily Mail reported.

In a rare sympathetic message on Tuesday, Trump defended his predecessor and suggested that it was Biden’s staffers—not the former president—who wanted “open borders.” He claimed that Biden’s staffers used the “autopen” to exploit the presidency.

Based upon revelations in Jake Trapper’s book Original Sin, there can be no question that Republicans and a few others, including myself, were justified in sounding the alarm about Biden’s