Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is back in the news and it has nothing to do with housing. This time, the acclaimed neurosurgeon is talking foreign affairs. According to the Washington Post, the HUD secretary had a lot to say about the North Korea threat during the holiday season. 

"Did you know that if North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon into our exosphere, it could take out our entire electrical grid?" Carson reportedly asked his staff. When Carson's acting chief of staff Deana Bass said she was unaware, Carson followed up with a movie reference to further explain:

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

Carson also cited 90's summer blockbuster, "Independence Day" when explaining why politicians and rival nations need to come together.  

"There's never been a time in the history of the world where a society became divided like this and did well," Carson said during a restaurant party where reporters, nonprofit representatives and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was present. "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."

Carson launched into a lecture about how aliens showed humanity's quibbling to be small in the grand scheme of things, and that if only people could wake up to the fact, staving off the apocalypse is at stake, then Palestine and Israel, Russia and the United States would become "like the best of friends."

Apparently, Carson's preoccupation with dystopian narratives date back to 2014, when he posited there wouldn't even be a 2016 election if the Republicans didn't win back the Senate.  

Carson hasn't been much of a favorite; especially among residents affected by the national housing department he presides over; he once referred to poverty as a "state of mind" and refused to provide better options for low-income families. About a month ago, a court ruled that he had to deliver better housing access, citing an Obama administration era rule.

We're thinking Dr. Carson should have at least several seats or return to neurosurgery–like soon.