FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on Friday mocked President-elect Donald Trump
Donald TrumpFauci: U.S. political divide over masks led to half a million COVID-19 deaths Georgia bishop says state GOP's elections bill is an 'attempt to suppress the Black vote' Trump closer to legal jeopardy after court ruling on tax returns MORE’s call for expanded nuclear capabilities by predicting what all-out nuclear war could do to the electoral map.
"Here's what the electoral map would look like if only people who weren't burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted,” he tweeted.
The punchline: A map showing only Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii surviving. Silver’s tweet had nearly 3,000 retweets an hour after posting.
Here's what the electoral map would look like if only people who weren't burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted. pic.twitter.com/MsrkuOjZWi
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 23, 2016
Trump on Thursday tweeted that the U.S. "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016
And Friday morning, Trump told MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski off-air that he would be okay with a nuclear arms race, according to Brzezinski.
“Let it be an arms race, we will outmatch them at every pass … and outlast them all,” Brzezinski recalled the president-elect saying.
Jokes about the electoral map became a social media game late in the presidential campaign after FiveThirtyEight released a map predicting what the presidential election would look like if just men or just women voted.
The jokes have continued since Election Day, when even serious maps turned out to be wildly wrong. Recently, one media outlet pointed out that Trump would have beaten Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonTanden's path to confirmation looks increasingly untenable Democrats sought to impeach conservative populism instead of Trump Texas Democrats blame pandemic for 2020 electoral disappointment MORE in the popular vote by millions if California and New York weren't counted.
