Trump tweet: Tell the Dem Governors that "Mutiny On The Bounty" was one of my all time fave movies

[highplainsdem]

New tweet, about 20 minutes old:

Link to tweet

Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!

[mzmolly]

1. What a sick

POS.

[TheBlackAdder]

67. I bet you he never saw the whole thing. Other than skin flicks, he's never watched a movie.

[mzmolly]

68. Agree.

And as others have stated below, he likely didn't write the tweet in question.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I was going to guess "Triumph of the Will." NT

[Renew Deal]

3. This is why he thinks he can do whatever he wants

Because he thinks they need him.

[roamer65]

4. COVID-45.

[leftieNanner]

5. So he's planning to keel haul Cuomo?

[Croney]

6. He is insane.

[SoonerPride]

7. Cuomo responds: How funny. The Caine Mutiny is one of my favorite movies and you are Bogart.

you demented troll.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. He didn't write that...

[tanyev]

10. I don't think he has the attention span to watch a movie from beginning to end.

Unless it was all about him.

[Wellstone ruled]

22. That is for sure.

Hope Hicks? Scavino?

[LisaM]

29. Nope.

He wouldn't have put the title in quotes.

[Boomerproud]

39. Classic Stephen Miller.

Like-minded bullies.

[HotTeaBag]

44. Not a chance.

'Invigorating' is way above his vocabulary level.

Dead give away.

[panader0]

9. Donald Bligh?

[Sneederbunk]

45. He is about to be cast adrift.

[Iliyah]

11. Read here on the DU that they will use . . .

"money" for leverage. Again, t-rump/WH doesn't care for the health and well being of Americans. t-rump will also use recovered COVID-19 persons as props.

This is beyond destruction. t-rump is bent on destroying the USA and kill as many of it's citizens.

[mucifer]

12. How about the movie 1776? Revolution from the tyrant monarchy!

[lastlib]

32. Or the Grand Funk Railroad song--

[uponit7771]

13. Putin's Whore says wha?

[The Magistrate]

14. If Recollection Serves, Sir

The crew needed nothing from their Captain, and showed that plainly by casting the sadistic martinet off in a small boat, in circumstances which held no expectation he would survive....


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[FightingIrish]

15. Somebody ate his strawberries

[Efilroft Sul]

16. Who's trump kidding? "The Manchurian Candidate" is one of his favorite flicks.

[Blues Heron]

17. More like the Caine Mutiny psycho

twisted fuck

[cbdo2007]

18. Well..."All The President's Men" is one of our favorites. He could relate as an Impeached President.

To some of it at least

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. One guess who he identified most with...

Personally, I think it's the spiffy outfit. Maybe Rump should wear something like that at his next TV rally.

[fleur-de-lisa]

20. Umm, does the orange dipshit understand which character he is?

[JHB]

21. If Trump had been Capt. Bligh, the mutiny would have been entirely justified...

...and the Admiralty board would have convicted him for the loss. Assuming someone else had the navigational skills to get him back; left to his own devices, he'd have ended up fish-food.

[sop]

23. Does Mafia Don think he's threatening the Caporegime when they muscle in on his turf?

Or does the POS see himself as Captain Bligh having his mutinous crew flogged and keelhauled? Trump's mixed metaphors make my head hurt.

[JHB]

24. Last week it was "I'm not a shipping clerk" and states should sort it out themselves

Now, states sorting it out themselves is "mutiny".

[dalton99a]

35. +1.

[Paladin]

25. The sick, evil fuck.

Admitting that Captain Bligh is his poster boy.

We are WAY overdue for commencement of Article 25 removal procedures.

[Paladin]

38. And after the way the trump admin. treated Captain Crozier.

Threw him off the USS Roosevelt, for the sin of trying to protect his crew.

I want trump OUT---by whatever means necessary.

[brewens]

26. He couldn't tell you the name of the ship Bligh captained. :) n/t

[Solomon]

51. Lol

[TNNurse]

57. OK, that is really funny.

He does not understand he is Bligh.

[CatMor]

27. What a joke ...

does anyone really believe he watched that movie or wrote that tweet.

[JHB]

40. Sure. It came out when he was a teenager.

I'd bet the local theater was packed with kids from that military school he was sent to.

Although if you asked him now, he'd probably say it was Brando who played Bligh. Or maybe Bogart -- why not mix up movies as well?

[cayugafalls]

28. The "need so much" kind of spells it out. What is he planning on doing?

He has already shown that he is willing to let FEMA pirate already ordered PPE and put it into the Feds hands for distribution.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html

What is next? Welcome to the crazy train.

[Cracklin Charlie]

30. Is he comparing himself to Queeg?

Does he know how that worked out?

Dude, I think you might want to re-watch that one.

Edit: damn I’m stupid.

But he is reminding me of Captain Queeg more every day.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. My prediction? RUMP is unraveling before our eyes

and is going to do something unbelievably stupid (even by RUMP standards) shortly.

[eShirl]

33. It always comes back to him.

[redstatebluegirl]

34. I think the Caine Mutiny is more like it.

[GoCubsGo]

36. I'm sure they'll remember that when you're demanding to know who took the strawberries.

I seriously cannot believe this lunatic sack of shit is allowed to remain in office. "Captain Bligh" Trump needs to be keel-hauled, along with Moscow Mitch, John Roberts, and the rest of his toadies.

[Turbineguy]

37. Except

trump is not up to Bligh in "Men Against the Sea".

If he'd read the book he would have known that.

Trump is more like Fletcher Christian who's inability to cope with petty grievances condemned so many people around him.

[PCIntern]

41. One of the few popular books with two authors

Fail Safe is another...

[Aristus]

42. The sad thing about this comparison is that Bligh was an extraordinarily-gifted naval commander.

No one would call him the most likeable guy at sea, but the cultural depictions of Bligh as a bitter, middle-aged petty tyrant are the exact opposite of the real man.

He was only thirty-five at the time of the mutiny. And although he was a strict disciplinarian (one had to be, to command a ship in the Age of Sail), he avoided floggings whenever possible, preferring verbal reprimands.

He had highly-progressive views on the care of his men. He did everything possible to ensure their continued good health, having fresh fruit and vegetables well-stocked on board ship any time, in the era before refrigeration, it was possible.

The only reason his men mutinied is because they had gotten used to the lazy, slow-paced, idyllic life in Tahiti, where they had sailed in order to obtain breadfruit plants for the West Indies. After leaving Tahiti, they were slow to resume the day-to-day on-board life of discipline and hard work.

[HipChick]

43. He'll treat them like he did Puerto Rico..

Leave people to die..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

53. He's already left thousands to die. . . . nt

[morillon]

46. He is so self unaware that I continue to boggle

Like, when he watches these movies, he takes away something entirely different from what a normal person would. Even what a normal criminally inclined person would.

He's warped and illogical to the point that I think a lot of people can't quite believe ANYONE thinks that way.

[Azathoth]

47. Sounds like Stephen Miller is tweeting today

[Maru Kitteh]

48. People are dying and millions are without jobs, and it's a BIG GAME to him.

Just a fun little contest. An amusement. A funny little joke.

[shockey80]

50. Trump: I love being a sick sadistic asshole, perhaps the best ever.

History will remember as being the greatest ever because I say so. That's what that tweet said.

[Baclava]

49. If he watched Moby Dick would think he's the captain or the whale?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

52. Did he watch it to the end? Does he know what happened to Capt. Bligh?

[Adsos Letter]

54. Judgement at Nuremberg is one of mine. n/t

[crickets]

59. +1

[mr_lebowski]

55. Is this for real? It can't be, can it? (nt)

[underpants]

56. WwwwwwnAAAT?!?!

WwwwwhAAAAT?

I mean what the hell? Isn't he Bligh in this situation?

25th Amendment time.

[handmade34]

58. sick, sick little man

[edbermac]

60. I have a favorite movie too, Donald.

Link to tweet

[DavidDvorkin]

61. There's an upcoming series about the English Civil War that he might want to watch.

[WePurrsevere]

62. Trump Clearly Has No Idea What Happens in Mutiny on the Bounty (Vanity Fair)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/donald-trump-mutiny-on-the-bounty

The president cited the classic as one of his “all time favorite movies” while lashing out at Democratic governors—but doesn’t seem to get that Captain Bligh is the bad guy.

-snip-

Nevertheless, no version—no possible interpretation of Mutiny on the Bounty shows “the mutineers need[ing] so much from the Captain,” as Trump has suggested. When Christian and his men set Bligh adrift on an open boat, they are done with him and don’t give him a second thought. They return to Tahiti, pick up their women, then split for Pitcairn Island, a very real place with a population of about 50. Its people are descendants of Bounty mutineers. (Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s mostly speculative sequel novels suggest that life wasn’t exactly a holiday on the island, but at least the mutineers all died as free men, not subjected to Bligh’s brutality.)

-more at link-

[lunasun]

63. Bligh +crew deteriorated after he began handing out increasingly harsh punishments, criticism

and abuse. Is that what our states have to go through to get much needed items or is he saying hey throw a munity he is ready ? Sick sadist or punk ass chump I’m confused

[librechik]

64. did this idiot even watch the movie? Trump is Captain Bligh!

and he gets to be put off the boat and left in a lifeboat, presumably to die.

Big Fat Orange Panty Smear is right, though. We do need a mutiny right now...From Trump!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

65. I love this response

Link to tweet

?s=20

[highplainsdem]

69. LOL!

[KayF]

66. a classic

[rocktivity]

70. Perhaps he has that movie confused with The Caine Mutiny:

rocktivity