If you go back and actually look at those struggle MS Paint charts he posted earlier, all of this shit sort of makes sense now. He doesn't understand that we use latitude/longitude to accurately describe exact locations on the globe. So if you look at the dumb shit he made, it is really an attempt to create a system for latitude/longitude just done by an actual imbecile.
LA is indeed approximately 2500 miles from Hawaii but because he doesn't understand how depicting a spherical object on a flat map works in terms of scale etc. he is forced by his own stupidity to claim that ATL is 500 miles in distance (which he bizarrely claims is elevation for some reason) from LA.
The actual distance (2,000+ miles) doesn't fit the fucked up scale he created.
The 500 miles thing really bothered me because surely no actual adult believes people live in space but it all makes sense if you turn off your brain and rely on MS paint and stupidity. I am sure he believes Greenland is larger than the continent of Africa as well because that is how it is depicted on a Mercator map.