When word reached Biden about the deadly Maui fires that killed over 100 people and left 800 more missing, he didn’t rush to Air Force One and fly over the Pacific to the afflicted island.
Instead, the 46th president of the United States spent yet another day neglecting his oath of office on a Delaware beach vacation where he offered reporters “no comment” about the hundreds of fire victims. After a brief appearance at the White House, where he once again refused to speak with reporters about the catastrophe, Biden jetted off to lounge at Lake Tahoe.
The president eventually paused his elaborate stay in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to fly to Hawaii. When Biden finally arrived on the ravaged island two weeks after the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history started, he kicked off the somber visit by cracking several jokes about hot pavement and football.
Biden says to the Mayor of Maui County: “You look like you played defensive tackle for, I don’t know who, but somebody good” and then says the wildfires are a “national travedy.” pic.twitter.com/ZbQDx5ZW3i
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 21, 2023
Biden’s babbling only worsened when he turned a speech that was supposed to encourage the fire victims into a self-adulating spiel laced with lies.
Joe Biden finally travels to Hawaii, where over 100 people died, and says he knows how scary fires can be because his kitchen caught on fire nearly twenty years ago and his 1967 corvette, his cat
