FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on Friday mocked President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests 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

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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 ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE in the popular vote by millions if California and New York weren't counted.