Biden slammed for heartless ‘no comment’ response to Maui wildfire, as death toll mounts

President Biden provided a stony-hearted “no remark” Sunday when requested concerning the mounting demise toll in the catastrophic Maui wildfire – the deadliest US wildfire in additional than a century – after sunning himself on a seashore close to his Delaware house.

The commander-in-chief gave the unsympathetic non-answer because the demise toll climbed to 96 late Sunday.

“After a pair hours on the Rehoboth seashore, @potus was requested concerning the rising demise toll in Hawaii,” Bloomberg reporter Justin Sink wrote on X, the social media website previously often known as Twitter.

“‘No remark,’ he mentioned earlier than heading house,” added the White Home correspondent, who additionally posted a photograph of Biden, 80, lounging with a gaggle of individuals within the distance.

The grim tally — which is predicted to rise as search and rescue operations frantically proceed — made the inferno Hawaii’s worst pure catastrophe.

It’s also now the deadliest US wildfire since 1918, when 453 individuals died within the Cloquet fireplace in Minnesota and Wisconsin, in response to knowledge from the Nationwide Fireplace Safety Affiliation.

Throughout a motorbike trip earlier Sunday, Biden gave an analogous unfeeling reply when requested concerning the tragedy.

“We’re it,” he mentioned.

Biden final week declared a significant catastrophe on Maui, pledging that the federal response will make sure that “anybody who’s misplaced a beloved one, or whose house has been broken or destroyed, goes to get assist instantly.”  

However the president’s tepid responses Sunday garnered fast backlash, with some evaluating them to his response to the poisonous spill unleashed by a practice derailment close to East Palestine in Ohio earlier this 12 months.

“Biden doesn’t give AF [a f–k] concerning the struggling individuals of Maui,” tweeted Monica Crowley, former US Treasury Division assistant secretary for public affairs through the Trump administration.

“Or the struggling individuals of East Palestine, Ohio. Or the struggling individuals in border cities. Or the struggling individuals anyplace in America,” she added.

Republican Kari Lake, who misplaced her 2022 bid to be Arizona’s governor, additionally ripped the commander-in-chief.

“One of the vital lovely locations on earth has been diminished to cinders. In Delaware: @JoeBiden can’t be bothered to care. Placing America First means getting this joker out of the White Home,” Lake wrote on X.

The president “rode his bike to the seashore whereas the individuals of Lahaina, Hawaii dug by way of the ashes of their shattered neighborhood. And Nero fiddled whereas Rome burned,” she added.

Stephen Miller, an editor at conservative outlet The Spectator, tweeted that Biden “simply got here again from a 14-day seashore trip. Spent 4 days in DC, now could be again on the seashore and has no remark for wildfires that worn out complete communities. Simply unimaginable stuff.”

One other livid commentator in contrast Biden’s response to the conflict in Ukraine.

“Biden in a nutshell. East Palestine: No remark. Maui: No remark. Ukraine: ship them one other 24 billion,” the X user wrote.

The Submit has reached out to the White Home for remark.