Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville was criticized after he attempted to defend President Donald Trump on Newsmax from accusations that his presidency is more like a “dictatorship”—and he fumbled it badly.

Tuberville was aggressively defending Trump’s recent executive order banning transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. Titled the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order,” it marks the fourth executive action targeting transgender individuals since he took office on January 20.