(CNN) Donald Trump likes pictures. Visuals. Maps.

And one map in particular: This county-by-county one, which he tweeted out to his 70+ million followers last fall:

On Tuesday, speaking to the National Association of Counties, Trump returned, again, to that map.

"Oh I love those beautiful red areas that middle of the map," Trump told the assembled audience. "A little blue here, a little blue there, and everything else ... everything else is bright red."

You can see why Trump loves that map so, so much. There is, as he says, lots and lots of red on it and very little blue -- evidence of the fact that in the 2016 election, Trump won 2,626 counties to Hillary Clinton's 487, according to The Associated Press

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