If the Governors are Mutineers, then Trump is Captain Bligh

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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 14, 2020

     So IMPOTUS now has likened the governors in the Northeast (six Democrats and one Republican) and West Coast to the mutineers in the film “Mutiny On the Bounty.”  So if the governors are mutineers, then Trump must be Capt. Bligh, the authoritarian captain who was cruel to his men and didn’t care about their fate.

     So I found the following clip from the 1962 ”Mutiny on the Bounty” film starring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh.  The analogy to our current plight is strong. A sailor is ill because he drank sea water, Christian wants to give him a ladle of fresh water, Captain Bligh refuses to permit it even though Christian warns that the sailor might die without fresh water. Christian gives the sailor water — and the mutiny begins.

   And then there was the 1935 version which won an Oscar for Best Picture, starring Clark Gable as Christian and Charles Laughton as Bligh. In this scene, Christian accuses Bligh of corruption by   short-changing the men on supplies and threatening their health. Bligh then shows himself to be a cruel authoritarian.

      

   It didn’t end well for Captain Bligh. The mutineers ended up taking over the ship and sending Captain Bligh and his few remaining loyalists off in a lifeboat.

  If “Mutiny on the Bounty” was one of Trump’s all-time favorite movies, he obviously missed the point entirely.  I bet his hero in “Game of Thrones” was Ramsay Bolton.