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<\/p>\nWe all called for the President last week. Where was he, days after the apocalyptic Maui wildfires?<\/p>\n
Actually, we knew where he was: On the beach at his shore home in Delaware. Prepping for his next vacation in Lake Tahoe. Issuing a reptilian \u2018no comment\u2019 when asked about the thousand-plus people missing and the Pompeii-like damage and what his plan was.<\/p>\n
When was he going to visit?<\/p>\n
For what it\u2019s worth, I wrote an impassioned column imploring the president to go.<\/p>\n
Now I take it all back. The people of Maui have suffered enough.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden finally saw fit to interrupt his second vacation since the wildfires, to don his well-worn mantle as Empathizer-in-Chief, put his feet on the ground in Hawaii and comfort the survivors, 13 days after the fires.<\/p>\n
It did not go well.<\/p>\n
\u2018F**k you!\u2019 was the prevailing greeting to his motorcade.\u00a0Residents held unwelcoming signs: \u2018It\u2019s too late\u2019. \u2018Actions speak louder than words\u2019.<\/p>\n
Right they are.<\/p>\n
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We all called for the President last week.\u00a0Where was he, days after the apocalyptic Maui wildfires? I wrote an impassioned column imploring the president to go.\u00a0Now I take it all back. The people of Maui have suffered enough.<\/p>\n
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Joe Biden finally saw fit to interrupt his second vacation since the wildfires, to don his well-worn mantle as Empathizer-in-Chief and comfort the survivors, 13 days after the fires. It did not go well. \u2018F**k you!\u2019 was the prevailing greeting to his motorcade.<\/p>\n
Yet Joe Biden was not humbled. Joe Biden doesn\u2019t know shame. Instead he gave a meandering speech invoking, yet again, his own tragedies, dosed as usual with a soup\u00e7on of exaggeration.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t want to compare difficulties,\u2019 he said. Spoiler alert: He compared difficulties.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, he and Jill had suffered a kitchen fire while he was off doing a glamorous TV spot on \u2018Meet the Press\u2019. He almost lost his classic Corvette! Parked at his waterfront house!<\/p>\n
Would the people of Maui, living through the agonies of entire families burned to ashes in their homes, of a 14-year-old boy\u2019s body discovered alone and clutching his dead dog, care to hear those details?<\/p>\n
\u2018It was a sunny Sunday,\u2019 Biden said \u2014 oh my God, is there no one in this White House who can keep this president on-message? \u2014 \u2018and lightning struck at home on a little lake that\u2019s outside of our home \u2014 not a lake, a big pond \u2014 and hit a wire and came up underneath our home into our heating ducts, the air conditioning ducts.<\/p>\n
\u2018To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette, and my cat. But all kidding aside\u2019 \u2014 there\u2019s a joke in here? \u2014 \u2018I watched the firefighters, the way they responded\u2026 they ran into flames to save my wife and save my family\u2026 sometimes smoke is so thick\u2026 it was that thick inside the home.\u2019<\/p>\n
Not so, said the firefighters who responded. The Biden kitchen fire, according to the Cranston Heights Fire Company, was \u2018insignificant\u2019 and put out in just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
But hey \u2014 Joe Biden never lets facts get in the way of a good story. And no one\u2019s suffering can ever compare to his own.<\/p>\n
His speech to the people of Maui was disgusting. It was all about him. Note this line: ‘I give you my word, as a Biden.’<\/p>\n
As a Biden? How about as President of the United States?<\/p>\n
He had such a low bar to clear: Get on the ground, shake hands and offer hugs, look survivors in the eye and listen to their stories, and offer a clear plan of action.<\/p>\n
All he had to do was deliver a brief, locked-and-loaded speech and cede the stage to local heroes \u2014 take a page from George W. Bush\u2019s promise on the World Trade Center pile after 9\/11.<\/p>\n
But he can\u2019t do it. Joe Biden is fundamentally, constitutionally incapable of allowing others their grief. He literally claimed that he had \u2018a similar experience\u2019 to the Maui survivors.<\/p>\n
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He had such a low bar to clear: Get on the ground, shake hands, offer hugs – and a clear plan of action.\u00a0But he can\u2019t do it. Joe Biden is fundamentally, constitutionally incapable of allowing others their grief. (Pictured: Flames devastate\u00a0Lahaina, Hawaii, earlier this month).<\/p>\n
\u2018By the way,\u2019 he continued, \u2018for 36 years I was listed as the poorest man in Congress, so I didn\u2019t get there based on my income.\u2019<\/p>\n
Can you believe that was part of his speech to the survivors? How is it germane? Remotely relevant? Does Biden really want to invoke his family\u2019s suspicious riches?<\/p>\n
To quote Barack Obama: \u2018Don\u2019t underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f**k things up.\u2019<\/p>\n
Biden went on to perseverate over the loss of his first wife and infant daughter in a car crash \u2014 a tragedy he blamed on the other driver, who Biden infamously falsely accused of being drunk.<\/p>\n
\u2018So, I have a little bit of sense of what it\u2019s like.\u2019<\/p>\n
No, Mr. President, you do not.<\/p>\n
It was the same when he met with Gold Star families whose loved ones died in his botched Afghanistan withdrawal, repeatedly invoking his late son Beau, who he often claims died in Iraq. (Beau died of a brain tumor.)<\/p>\n
It was the same when he was caught checking his watch every single time one of those 13 flag-draped caskets were loaded off military planes at Dover.<\/p>\n
\u2018The most disrespectful thing I\u2019ve ever seen,\u2019 said Darin Hoover, father of fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover. \u2018They would release the salute and he looked down at his watch on every last one. All 13, he looked down at his watch.\u2019<\/p>\n
So now I know: Joe Biden should have stayed away from Maui. He should have sent thoughts and prayers and far more than a $700 check to each surviving family. He should have begged Barack Obama or another esteemed Hawaiian to go.<\/p>\n
The Rock would have done better. Jason Momoa. Hell, anyone but tone-deaf, crusty old Joe.<\/p>\n
Looking at a canine rescue and recovery dog with protective paw gear, Biden \u2018joked\u2019 to the press: \u2018You guys catch the boots out here? That\u2019s some hot ground, man.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ugh, that \u2018man\u2019. Joe\u2019s such a cool cat, don\u2019t you know, just one of us. Amtrak Joe. Watch out: He might beat you up in the parking lot after fourth period. Remember \u2018CornPop\u2019? The gang leader with a razor blade at the community pool back in 1962? The ‘bad dude’ Joe Biden beat back with a 6ft-long chain?<\/p>\n
Joe Biden, pathological fabulist, national embarrassment.<\/p>\n
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He should have stayed away from Maui. He should have sent thoughts and prayers and far more than a $700 check to each surviving family. He should have begged Barack Obama or another esteemed Hawaiian to go. The Rock would have done better. Hell, anyone but tone-deaf, crusty old Joe. (Pictured: Joe and Jill on the beach in Delaware earlier this month).<\/p>\n
Those canines, by the way, have only been able to work in short shifts because the ground in Lahaina remains sizzling hot. That\u2019s cause for alarm, not a comedy bit.<\/p>\n
How about that climate crisis, Mr. President?<\/p>\n
Speaking of \u2014 please, for the love of all that is sacred, stay away from Palm Springs and Los Angeles and any future disaster areas in general. The American people don\u2019t need to see their doddering, likely demented president wandering away from a podium, mouth slack and eyes vacant, needing to be guided, as we witnessed on Monday.<\/p>\n
This sad showing is a microcosm of the Biden presidency: No one\u2019s at the wheel. The whole world can see it. Is this who the Dems really want to prop up in 2024?<\/p>\n
And where\u2019s Jill Biden in all of this? Most wives would gently take their husband by the hand and say: \u2018Time\u2019s up. You did your best, but it\u2019s time to leave.\u2019<\/p>\n
Most wives would want to protect what\u2019s left of their husband\u2019s dignity. Legacy.<\/p>\n
Not so for the Bidens, now safely ensconced in an $18 million vacation home, out of sight.<\/p>\n
That is, after all, where their priorities lie: Grafting and grifting, all in the guise of national service. What this must look like to Maui’s homeless, whose only relief is that Joe Biden has left.<\/p>\n