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• Joe Scarborough, one-half of MS NOW’s Morning Joe hosting duo, dropped an F-bomb during a broadcast on Friday, Nov. 21

• The explicit language came as Scarborough was calling out House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans for defending President Donald Trump

• Trump has suggested that Democratic lawmakers could be jailed or even executed over a video in which they tell members of the military and the intelligence community that they “must refuse illegal orders”

Joe Scarborough, one-half of MS NOW’s Morning Joe hosting duo, dropped an F-bomb while ranting about House Speaker Mike Johnson during a live broadcast on Friday.

Scarborough’s F-bomb, which was dropped at 6:18 a.m. on Nov. 21, according to The Daily Beast, came as he called out Johnson and other Republicans for their defense of President Donald Trump‘s recent Truth Social posts. In the posts, Trump calls a group of Democratic lawmakers “traitors” who should be “put on trial” in response to them sharing a video urging the military and intelligence communities to defy any illegal orders from the president.

Scarborough aired a clip of Johnson defending the president and then declared, “[Johnson] lies so pretty. I mean, it’s so easy for him to lie,” noting that he had to clutch his pearls.

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“You know, it was very rude of those press members to be standing all around,” Scarborough continued, at one point putting on a slight accent. “He had a fainting couch. It was beautiful. Beautiful pink satin fainting couch with all the frills. He was going to just flop over, I tell you, he was so shocked and stunned.”

It was then that Scarborough dropped the F-bomb when he said, “These people are lying through their f— teeth — these people are lying through their teeth.”

Mika Brzezinski quickly said, “He didn’t say it. It was just half.” Scarborough later added that “Mike Johnson knows that this is all about what military men and women need to do to uphold their sacred oath, and that is not commit illegal actions.”

The video in question, which went out earlier this week, features Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Reps. Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan and Jason Crow — all of whom have served in the military or the intelligence community.

As seen in a clip from her press conference show during the Morning Joe segment, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the video “could inspire chaos and it could incite violence.”

Johnson, meanwhile, was caught by reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday, where he said that Trump was simply “defining the crime of sedition” in his posts.

“I don’t — that is a factual statement, but obviously attorneys have to parse the language and determine that,” he said in a clip that aired during the segment. “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.”

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“I mean, 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,” Johnson continued. “This is out of control and wildly inappropriate.”

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