Not long after Joe Biden compared the devastating Maui fire to his small kitchen fire in his house, Hawaiians condemned the comparison declaring they would “never vote for him again.”
As we reported, Biden claimed he knew what it is like losing a home as he recalled a small kitchen fire at his home 15 years ago in an apparent attempt to compare it to people who had lost everything due to the Maui fire.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” Biden said.
“Years ago, now 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the press’… Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake, a big pond.”
“It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the…air condition ducts,” Biden said.
“To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat,” he added.
“This is the most despicable thing this president has ever said,” a restaurant owner in Kihei, Maui, told The Daily Signal. “How do you compare almost losing your f* Corvette to the children burned in their f* homes, man?”
Meanwhile, other Hawaiians including a former teacher, Kristen Goodwin, described how she felt after such a comment on the Maui fire:
“There are no words in response to something like that. There’s a thousand people still missing on this island, business owners who want people to come back, and who is going to come to a secluded island with people still missing?
The community members have rallied together and have taken care of each other. It was several days before [the feds] came and helped. They shut down a road for no good reason except they didn’t want people trampling over [rescue and search] sites.
Nobody understands that unless they’re here.”
“I’m not voting for him again—that’s for sure. I’ll vote for Trump. I will never vote for him again,” she said of Biden.
Goodwin also slammed Biden’s initial response to the wildfires:
“The lack of connection, the lack of real emotion. Is Biden even there? The “no comment” situation—how dare he? He could have said “Thoughts and prayers,” at least.
Especially when it’s a historical fire, the largest fire in recent American history, and you said “no comment” then went back to bicycling for hours.
[His trip to Maui] just seemed like a photo op to me.”
As Joe Biden arrived in Maui after wildfires on Monday, one island resident clarified what they thought about the late presidential visit with a yard sign.
“Traitor Joe Must Go,” read the yard sign in front of one Maui home, a stark reminder to Biden that he isn’t following the Hawaiian people.
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