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“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday did not hold back, using the word “stupid” four times in a rant about the Pentagon’s decision to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for appearing in a video urging service members not to follow illegal orders.

“How stupid do you have to — like, I have Republicans saying, ‘I can't believe how dumb we are.’ We continue to throw a fit over the president's right to issue illegal orders, and we're putting military heroes from the Democratic Party constantly on television, thereby branding the Democratic Party as a party of veterans, of CIA agents, of all the things that Republicans don't want Americans to know about the Democratic Party,” Scarborough said.

Show co-host Willie Geist pointed out that Kelly “not only has a long career of service in the United States Navy, but also has been to space four times.”

“He's an airman and an astronaut, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth … is calling Mark Kelly seditious for telling people in his military to defy illegal orders. Is that the ground he wants to stand on?”

“No, it's not, and it's not the ground the Republicans want to stand on. They're making fools of themselves, pretending the American people are so stupid they don't see the word ‘illegal’ in that video,” said Scarborough. “And let me tell you, we're talking about a president who, going back to 2016, said in a debate when the moderators said ‘Donald Trump, you can't order your troops to do that. That's illegal.’ His quote was, ‘they will do what I tell them to do. They will not disobey me.’

Scarborough then made a reference to Trump asking his advisors to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters “in the legs” during his first term, but leaders told him they could not.

“He fired all of those people who told him ‘no,’ Scarborough said. “And of course, now, he's saying he wants to use American cities as training grounds for the military, which is illegal.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski said Democrats’ video and the Trump administration’s reaction to it is “highlighting the problem” the nation is facing with a lawless president. But Scarborough was too busy slamming the White House over its PR fumble.

“There has to be somebody in the White House that understands how stupid this is, because a lot of Republicans understand how stupid this is. That Pete Hegseth is going up against a war hero and an astronaut for simply telling troops the most basic of things. This is basic civics, and that is follow lawful orders. Don't follow illegal orders. … and then Donald Trump saying he should be lynched.”