Joe Scarborough briefly lost his cool and dropped an F-bomb on live television Thursday before quickly attempting to censor himself.

The veteran television host became angry 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 “THIRSTY BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” – like Trump simply “defining the crime of sedition.”

“What I’m saying, and what I will say unequivocally, is that it was a wildly inappropriate thing for the 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 about the threat this poses to our national security and what it means to our institutions. We have to raise the bar in Congress. This is out of control.”

Scarborough could barely contain himself after watching the clip.

“He lies so cute. I mean, it’s so easy for him to lie,” Scarborough said as he sat next to his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski.

“These people are lying through their teeth,” he said, before quickly recovering. “These people lie through their teeth.”

Brzezinski was shocked by Scarborough's outburst.
Brzezinski was shocked by Scarborough’s outburst.

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Brzezinski screamed and tried to insist that Scarborough “didn’t say it.”

“It was only half,” he added.

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), one of the Democratic veterans in the video, criticized Johnson on Friday for his “petty” response to Trump’s violent reaction to the video.

“Another jaw-dropping response from our House Speaker, who continues to disappoint me with his inability to lead the entire House. What he basically said is, ‘I wouldn’t have said that,'” the former US Air Force officer said in an interview with CNN’s “News Central.”

“The problem is that this president says things and then he means them. That’s why it’s very difficult for him to realize that,” he added. “And then to say, as you mentioned, something as inaccurate as the fact that we’re asking people to disobey orders, we’re actually asking people to make sure they don’t obey illegal orders.”