The map -- in case you can't tell -- is meant to be a county-by-county rendering of the 2016 election. Upon closer inspection, the map turned out to have several mistakes in it -- but its overall point is accurate, as far as it goes. Trump won 2,626 counties to Hillary Clinton's 487 in the last presidential election, according to the Associated Press.
But the map is also quite misleading.
Why? Simple: What it shows is that Trump won more landmass than Clinton, which isn't all that revealing. Lots and lots of those red counties have tiny populations -- a fact you wouldn't know by simply looking at that sea of red.
