Defending Trump, Mike Huckabee gets the plot of Jaws horribly wrong

Looks like someone needs to re-watch ‘Jaws’.

In a ham-fisted attempt to extol the rough-and-ready virtues of Donald Trump, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee compared him to Quint from Steven Spielberg’s timeless classic, while in his poorly thought-out analogy, Hillary Clinton is the deadly shark.

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Except – spoiler alert – the shark eats Quint at the end of the movie.

“He’s vulgar, he’s salty, he might even get drunk… but hold on here, okay? He’s the guy who’s going to save your butt and save your family,” he told Megan Kelly on Fox News.

“And so at the end of the day, when he kills the shark, you’re happy about it. Now, Hillary is the shark. She’s gonna eat your boat.

“Do you vote for Captain Quint, who’s going to save your family, or do you vote for the shark?”

Following the remarks, Kelly then delights in explaining the plot of ‘Jaws’ to Huckabee.

“Governor, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Captain Quint got eaten by the shark at the end of that movie,” she says.

“But he died saving the other people,” retorts Huckabee.

Hmmm, more ‘died kicking and screaming’ than ‘saving the other people’, but as a soundbite, the former sounds pretty bad.

Robert Shaw’s ‘salty’ Quint not only fails to survive the shark hunt, he also doesn’t kill the shark, as Huckabee claims – Roy Schneider’s Chief Brody does using the trusty oxygen tanks and a rifle, as anyone with a decent grasp on a film analogy should know.