Ben Carson described the apocalypse at a DC holiday party

For one night, Americans did something crazy and listened to Ben Carson.

Some may choose to discuss what they're looking forward to doing with friends and family over the holidays, but not Ben Carson, the Washington Post reports.

Speaking with Deana Bass, his acting chief of staff, at a Capitol Hill holiday party, the head of Housing and Urban Development asked her, "Did you know that if North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon into our exosphere, it could take out our entire electrical grid?"

She shook her head, prompting Carson to further describe what he thought a complete lack of power would do to the nation.

"What's that movie where there's complete lawlessness and anarchy for one night a year?" he said. "'The Purge'! It will be like 'The Purge' all the time."

For those unfamiliar with the film the neurosurgeon was referencing, it's the first installment in what would become a franchise of horror movies that all take place in a world where crime gets completely legalized for one night of the year in America.

Ironically, President Trump inadvertently tried to lift his 2020 campaign slogan from the tagline for "The Purge: Election Year": "Keep America Great."

It wouldn't be the last film Carson would bring up that evening as a crowd started to encircle him, his pop culture-infused critique of America's crumbling social structure apparently garnering people's interest.

"There's never been a time in the history of the world where a society became divided like this and did well," he continued. "And we don't really have a reason to be fighting each other. There was a movie some years ago, a Will Smith movie called 'Independence Day.'"

The former neurosurgeon with no government experience, who somehow oversees an agency with a budget of about $40 billion, proceeded to regale event attendees at the Monocle restaurant by reportedly describing how people realized their conflicts were nothing in comparison to the threat posed by an armada of landmark-hating aliens prior to Jeff Goldblum and the star of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” stepping in.

Carson felt that if humanity could realize what was truly at stake, foes such as Palestinians and Jews or the United States and Russia could be "like best friends."