President Donald Trump was captured on video “smiling” Sunday after an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter dropped a shockingly "offensive” and false remark about former First Lady Michelle Obama during the UFC event at the White House, CNN reported.

Mixed martial artist Joshua Hokit, 28, defeated his opponent Derrick Lewis Sunday night at the White House UFC bout, and after his victory, shouted an inflammatory and false claim targeting the former first lady.

“Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?” Hokit said, eliciting both cheers and boos from the crowd, CNN reported.

Hokit’s remarks also elicited a response from Trump, who was seated in the first row at the event.

“In a brief moment captured on camera, Trump, seated first row at the ‘Octagon,’ appeared to show a half-smile seconds after the false remark, which has previously circulated online,” wrote CNN’s Alejandra Jaramillo.

Back in February, Trump faced rare bipartisan outrage after posting a video on his social media platform Truth Social that briefly depicted former President Barack Obama and the first lady as primates in the jungle. The blowback was so fierce that Trump – who denied being aware that the segment of the video he posted included the racist depiction – ultimately deleted the post.

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough highlighted new reporting about the inner workings of President Donald Trump's White House that will likely become the subjects of criminal prosecutions.

New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller proposed suspending habeas corpus to speed up mass deportations, and both he and Vice President JD Vance pushed the president to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota, and the "Morning Joe" host said those actions were plainly unconstitutional.

"This was after they had already gunned down two innocent Americans for doing just that, for protesting, and yet they're still talking about enacting the Insurrection Act," Scarborough said. "They're still talking about suspending habeas corpus through this entire period. You know, maybe it's just the lawyer in me, but excerpts from this book are reading – whether you look at Todd Blanche trying to cover up one of the biggest pedophile rings in the history of America, or you have the vice president and Stephen Miller talking about habeas corpus, suspending habeas corpus, and the Insurrection Act."

"That sure does look like a place where a lot of lawyers in the future are going to start discovery in their investigations, whether it is with a Democratic Congress, whether it is with prosecutors, because the president may try to pardon a lot of people," Scarborough added. "He's not going to be able to pardon the entire government, and these just seem to be clearly illegal acts or a conspiracy to commit illegal acts."

White House insiders are already scrambling to deflect previous revelations that came from their forthcoming book, "Regime Change," which hits the shelves June 23, and Scarborough said this would raise the temperature even further.

"No wonder, and I know you've heard this, like I've heard this," Scarborough said, "no wonder the White House is melting down over this book because there's so many people who are exposed who are going to have to hold up their right hand at some point and take an oath and tell everybody what happened behind those closed doors, because even the glimpse we're getting from this book is ugly."

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Liberal commentator David Pakman ridiculed Vice President JD Vance in a video published Sunday over a recent Fox News interview with Jesse Watters, calling it an "embarrassment" that exposed Vance's inability to carry the Republican torch after President Donald Trump leaves office.

Vance was asked by Watters to comment on the recent Democratic Senate nominations of Texas state Rep. James Talarico and Graham Platner in Maine. Before uttering a word, Vance belted out a loud laugh, one that Pakman described as “completely disingenuous.”

“JD Vance glitched out on Fox News. I think this Fox News interview is an example of why Donald Trump suspects JD Vance can't do it,” Pakman said on his podcast to his more than 3.6 million subscribers on YouTube.

“Yes, it's an embarrassment to JD himself, [and] it's a reminder of his total lack of charisma, gravitas and ability to communicate effectively. If you're Trump and you're thinking of your heir apparent – who's going to replace you – you don't like to see this.”

Pakman imitated Vance’s laugh, and sarcastically quipped that he “should start laughing like that.”

“He's genuinely terrible at this!” Pakman said.