Film lovers all slapped their foreheads on Tuesday as President Donald Trump belched out an odd tweet, even by his own standards. In it he warned that Democratic governors going over his head to take emergency coronavirus measures couldn’t fool him, because he watches TCM.

In a bizarre statement, Trump warned that Mutiny on the Bounty is one of his favorite films—because “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.”

Of course, whether you’re watching the 1935 Clark Gable–Charles Laughton version, the 1962 Marlon Brando–Trevor Howard version, or the 1984 Mel Gibson–Anthony Hopkins version, this is a frankly baffling take on the story of Mutiny on the Bounty. For added confusion, Trump paradoxically concluded, “Too easy!”

Some backup, in case you’re unfamiliar with this based-on-a-true-story tale: In 1787, celebrated British naturalist Sir Joseph Banks commissioned a Royal Navy vessel to sail to Tahiti, acquire breadfruit plants (a crop that wasn’t particularly tasty but was cheap to grow and rich in nutrients), and bring them to the West Indies.

The captain of the HMS Bounty at the time was one William Bligh, a brilliant navigator who served under Captain James Cook—but who also, by all accounts, was an arrogant, nasty, paranoid, freakishly obsessive, and brutal man, during a time when the British navy was notorious for impressing people into service against their will and using corporal punishment to keep them in line.

For the trip to Tahiti, Bligh hired one Fletcher Christian as master’s mate. Christian later led a mutiny against Bligh, a rebellion that came in response to the captain’s management style, which was one of near-sadistic cruelty. (The 1984 movie also implies that Hopkins’s Bligh is super jealous of hunky Gibson. Good movie!)