The loops we see in Mars' apparent motion are illusory; Mars orbits the Sun in an ellipse without loops.

Venus also orbits the Sun; the "loops" we see in its apparent motion from Earth are that real orbit.

The illusory part of its motion is instead the longer-period path resulting from it following the
apparent, and also illusory, motion of the Sun around the Earth.

How can he be hilariously wrong... where he is exactly right?