Joe Scarborough briefly lost his cool and dropped an F-bomb on live TV on Thursday before quickly attempting to censor himself.
The veteran television host got riled up after watching House Speaker Mike Johnson attempt to downplay Trump’s threat to hang Democratic veterans serving in Congress after they released a video calling on members of the military to disobey illegal orders.
Johnson said in a clip played on “Morning Joe” that he interpreted Trump’s messages ― in which the president wrote things like “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” ― as Trump simply “defining the crime of sedition.”
“What I’m saying, and what I will say unequivocally, is that was a wildly inappropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do, to encourage young troops to disobey orders,” Johnson said, ignoring the actual content of the Democrats’ message. “Think of what a threat that is to our national security, and what it means to our institutions. We have got to raise the bar in Congress. This is out of control.”
Scarborough could barely contain himself after watching the clip.
“He lies so pretty. I mean, it’s so easy for him to lie,” Scarborough said as he sat alongside his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski.
“These people are lying through their fuck— their teeth,” he said, before quickly catching himself. “These people are lying through their teeth.”
Brzezinski let out a yelp and tried to insist that Scarborough “didn’t say it.”
“It was just half,” she added.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), one of the Democratic veterans in the video, called out Johnson on Friday for his “mealymouthed” response to Trump’s violent reaction to the video.
“Yet another mealymouthed response from our speaker of the House, who continues to disappoint me with his inability to lead the entire House. What he’s basically said is, ‘I wouldn’t have said that,’” the former U.S. Air Force officer said in an interview with CNN’s “News Central.”
“The problem is, is this president says things, and then he means it. And so it’s really hard for him to kind of come across with that,” she added. “And then to say, as you mentioned, something as inaccurate as the fact that we are asking for people to disobey orders, we indeed are asking people to make sure that they don’t obey illegal orders.”