President Joe Biden always makes everything about him.
The trip to Maui to view the devastation caused by the wildfire was no different.
There are 114 confirmed dead and 850 missing. They might never find some of those missing people.
Why did Biden bring up the death of his first wife and daughter? I don’t get it:
BIDEN: “— America’s deadly wildfire — deadliest wildfire in over a century. And Jill and I have — what’s left — walked front — wat was left of it, we’ve surveyed the damage from the air as well. The devastation is overwhelming. To date, 114 dead. Hundreds of people unaccounted for. I remember when I got the call, my first wife and daughter, I was a young senator and I got a call in Washington, I hadn’t been sworn in yet, I wasn’t old enough. And I was hiring staff in the Capitol, at Teddy Kennedy’s office, and I got a phone call saying, from my fire department, the young first responder kind of panicked, you got to come home, there’s been an accident. I said, what happened? He said, your wife, she’s dead, come home, come home. A tractor trailer had broadsided her and killed her in a car accident, along with my little daughter. And I remember all the way down from Washington to home wondering what a lot of people here are wondering: What about my two boys?”
I mean, I guess what he’s hinting at, but come on:
Many people on Maui right now don’t know what happened to their loved ones, or are grappling with news of the deaths of close friends and family. “I know the feeling as many of the people in this town, in this community, that hollow feeling in your chest like you’re being sucked into a black hole, wondering will I ever get by this?” Biden said.
Then Biden talks about losing a home in a fire.
Except…he did not lose a home:
<blockquote“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense — Jill and I — what it’s like to lose a home,” Biden told the Lahaina residents, whose historic town was destroyed on Aug. 8 in wildfires that killed at least 114 people.
“Years ago now — 15 years ago — I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday and lightning struck at home on a little lake that is outside of our home — not on a lake, a big pond,” Biden said.
“And it hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, air conditioning ducts. And to make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat.”
Biden added that firefighters who responded “ran into flames to save my wife and save my family. Not a joke.”
At the time of Biden’s small home fire, local fire chief George Lamborn told the Associated Press, “Luckily, we got it pretty early. The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”The AP reported that it was a “small fire that was contained to the kitchen” and that Jill Biden reported it to the emergency services.The news wire did not report that she was trapped inside the home and said no one was injured.
But Maui residents are not happy with Biden. He’s been insensitive since the beginning, and they let him know how they felt:
PERSON: “After thirteen days. He’s finally here. Thanks for nothing. F*ck you. F*ck you.”
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