President Joe Biden has sparked a backlash among some Hawaiian residents after making inappropriate comments during his visit to Maui following the devastating wildfires.
Biden was in Hawaii to assess damage from the Maui wildfires, which have killed at least 114 people. However, the final death toll is expected to rise to close to a thousand as more victims are identified.
During his speech, Biden cracked jokes and shared personal anecdotes, at one point drawing a comparison between the catastrophic wildfires and a minor kitchen fire at his home years ago. He mentioned with “humor” that he had almost lost his Corvette to this fire.
This was enough to cause one citizen to “crack down” and eviscerate the president for his weak and heartless response.
Citizen SNAPS at Joe Biden HOURS after he insulted the victims of the Maui wildfires by comparing the disaster to his little kitchen fire:
“There were children who were cremated in ASH, you fucking old king. VILE human being… You must step down.” pic.twitter.com/T5pTG46jEU
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 22, 2023
One local resident reacted by saying: “Hearing Biden talking about his house having a small fire,” before commenting: “Almost lost your cat and your Corvette? There were kids that turned to ash! You were an old king. You vile human being.”
But the unnamed man in the viral video wasn’t alone. Maui residents lit up for Biden on his arrival on the island on Monday.
🚨 Maui residents gave Joe Biden a warm welcome to Hawaii today.
“Here he comes after 13 days.”
“F*CK YOU”
pic.twitter.com/yJZgxKxL52
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 22, 2023
Biden in his visit had told a blatant lie about a 2004 fire that started in his kitchen after a lightning strike that was put out in about twenty minutes.
Biden says “Jill and I have a little bit of a sense of what it’s like to lose a house” and then tells the story of when lightning struck his house in 2004 and says, “I almost lost my ’67 Corvette and my cat.”
According to a report at the time, the lighting strike caused “a small fire… pic.twitter.com/V8IBfoZuEW
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 22, 2023
“I almost lost my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” he said, completely deaf to the suffering of the Hawaiians.
But even his obscenely cheerful tale was based on a fabrication. It was quickly brought under control, the Associated Press reports.
“Luckily, we got it pretty early,” the fire chief said at the time. “The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
Joe Biden thought he could twist a story about a small kitchen fire nearly two decades ago to link it to the loss of nearly a thousand people, now believed to be at least 480 dead.
But that wasn’t all Joe Biden said to bring the Maui wildfires on himself. He had to come up with his signature story of losing a wife and son in the early 1970s.
Biden begins his speech in Maui and immediately talks about the death of his first wife and daughter in 1972. pic.twitter.com/0jpKldveRW
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 21, 2023
As the late Andrew Breitbart would say, what a “ghoul.” According to local reports, hundreds of children are missing. That’s all Biden had to say about it in his remarks.
“Imagine being a parent wondering where your child is, where is he,” Biden said. “I remember it, like I said. You know, press reports of grandparents crying for lost neighbors while trying to be strong for those who survived. Of a woman handing out clothes to survivors who says she didn’t lose her home , but he lost his hometown.”
This was. Biden also told jokes. “Get your boots out here? This is hot ground, man,” he joked.
JUST IN: President Biden jokes about how hot the ground is in Maui after wildfire that killed hundreds.
“Get your boots out here? This is hot ground, man,” he joked.
Despite media reports of approximately 100 deaths from the fires, locals estimate that at least… pic.twitter.com/mRlVuN9kns
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 21, 2023
But despite the anger and heartbreak of Maui residents, Joe Biden was apparently sleeping through an event a day later.
Did Biden fall asleep in Maui? pic.twitter.com/IkMrmQ8sDf
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 22, 2023
Biden then took him back to Lake Tahoe for the rest of his vacation.
Biden completes his Maui flight and returns to Lake Tahoe for more vacation pic.twitter.com/ikbNX86DL4
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 22, 2023
If this were a Republican administration, Joe Biden would be lighting up the media, just like George Bush during Hurricane Katrina and Donald Trump during Hurricane Harvey. But none of these presidents joked or flinched as a grieving community shared their loss and misfortune.
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