{"id":2008222,"date":"2023-08-22T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-gaffe-filled-trip-to-hawaii-for-wildfires-fails-to-quiet-critics\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:46:03","slug":"bidens-gaffe-filled-trip-to-hawaii-for-wildfires-fails-to-quiet-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-gaffe-filled-trip-to-hawaii-for-wildfires-fails-to-quiet-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Hawaii trip fails to silence critics amid gaffes."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-gaffe-filled-trip-to-hawaii-for-wildfires-fails-to-quiet-critics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Joe Biden Faces\u200b Criticism for Response to Hawaii Wildfires<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden traveled to Hawaii Monday, two weeks after deadly wildfires broke \u200dout across multiple islands, destroying countless buildings and killing \u200cmore\u2064 than 100 people\u200c in \u200bthe process.<\/p>\n<p>When the fires\u2063 first started, Biden\u2063 was vacationing at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,\u2063 and he \u200chas been criticized for returning to the beach for a second weekend, traveling to Milwaukee, \u2064Wisconsin, and traveling to\u2064 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, for another private family vacation before stepping foot in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<h3>Criticism from Hawaiians and Political Opponents<\/h3>\n<p>And \u200cthough\u2063 the president and first lady Jill Biden spent hours \u2063Monday \u200din Lahaina, delivering remarks and \u2063visiting with\u2062 survivors and first\u200d responders, criticisms from\u200d both Biden&#8217;s political opponents and Hawaiians themselves persist.<\/p>\n<p>When the president travels \u200dto \u200cany state, it&#8217;s typical for gathered crowds to\u2062 be\u200c filled with both\u200d supporters and critics,\u2062 but scores of Hawaiians voiced their displeasure with the \u200bscope and speed of the president&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p>Video obtained by TMZ showed angry survivors \u2064flipping the bird and shouting obscenities\u200b at Biden&#8217;s motorcade when it passed Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wow, he&#8217;s finally here. 13 days,&#8221; one person can be \u200dheard shouting at the president. &#8220;Thanks for nothing. F*** \u200byou!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the timing of Biden&#8217;s visit, his administration has\u2064 received heavy\u200b criticism for\u2063 providing $700 one-time direct \u2063aid checks to Hawaiian households forced to evacuate. Critics say that, especially for families in Lahaina, a native Hawaiian heritage\u200c town that was totally \u2064destroyed by the \u2062fires, the payments won&#8217;t come\u2062 close to \u200dpaying for &#8220;immediate needs,&#8221; \u200das the\u2064 White House billed \u2063the checks, \u200blet alone beginning to rebuild \u200cdestroyed homes \u200dand businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of\u2064 protesters held signs\u2064 demanding more \u200baid outside of\u2062 various venues Biden visited Monday, \u2062and multiple Hawaiian politicians, including\u200d former Hawaii Democratic Rep. \u2064Tulsi Gabbard, called the payments &#8220;a slap in the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Unfortunately,\u2063 again, \u2063there is a trust \u200ddeficit because not only have people not shown up, but it was\u200d almost a slap in the\u2063 face\u200c of the people there when \u2062the\u2063 big announcement from FEMA was, &#8216;Hey, \u2064we are going to give \u2063you a one-time\u2063 payment of $700,'&#8221; Gabbard, who ran against Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said in a statement. &#8220;Anybody who has \u2062been\u2063 to Hawaii\u2063 knows that $700 does not go \u200cvery far\u200b at\u200d a time when so many have lost \u2062everything.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, Biden\u200d has approved more than $8 \u200bmillion in federal aid for\u2062 nearly 3,000 Hawaiian households since \u200cthe fires broke out in early August, but that figure has also \u200ccome \u200bunder scrutiny\u2063 when looked at side\u200c by side with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-gaffe-filled-trip-to-hawaii-for-wildfires-fails-to-quiet-critics\/\" title=\"Biden's Hawaii trip fails to silence critics amid gaffes.\">recent supplemental funding request<\/a> the president sent \u200bto Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Of the $40 billion the\u2064 Biden White House requested for\u200b the first quarter of the coming year,\u200b just \u2064$12 billion \u200cwould go to refilling the \u200bDepartment of Homeland Security&#8217;s \u200ddisaster relief\u2063 fund, compared \u2064to $24 billion for future aid for Ukraine. The roughly $4 billion \u200cremaining would \u2064be set aside for southern\u200d border operations and boosting wildland firefighter pay.<\/p>\n<p>The White House, and Biden himself, have maintained that the decision to wait to \u2063visit Hawaii came from a desire not \u2063to inhibit\u2064 the \u200ccleanup\u200b and recovery \u200deffort, as \u200cthe administration has stressed in past disaster responses. White House officials note that a presidential trip requires the shutting down of roads and commissioning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/51-lawmakers-warn-biden-immigration-order-could-make-border-crisis-catastrophic-overnight\/\" title=\"51 Lawmakers Warn Biden Immigration Order Could Make Border Crisis \u2018Catastrophic Overnight\u2019\">local law enforcement officials<\/a>,\u200c all of which\u2062 would \u200cbe\u200b critical to cleanup operations.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials also\u2063 note \u2063that Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator\u200d Deanne Criswell visited \u200cHawaii shortly after the fires came under control \u200band has been leading a\u200b &#8220;robust&#8221; federal\u2062 response, including \u200cholding daily\u200c briefings with \u2063Biden \u2064on\u2063 the recovery\u2064 efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Biden&#8217;s comments on Monday drew \u2064new ire from Republicans, specifically for mispronouncing\u200c the names \u2062of multiple Hawaiian \u2064lawmakers and\u2062 comparing\u2064 the\u2062 Hawaii blazes to a kitchen \u2063fire at his\u2064 home in Delaware.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to compare difficulties, \u2064but we have a\u2063 little sense, \u2062Jill and \u200bI, what it&#8217;s like \u2064to lose a home. Years\u200d ago \u2014\u200b now 15 years \u2063ago \u2014 I was\u2063 in\u200b Washington doing Meet the Press. It was a sunny\u200b Sunday, and lightning\u2063 struck at home on a little lake that\u2019s outside of our \u200chome \u2014 not a lake, a big pond \u2062\u2014 and hit a wire\u200c and came up \u2063underneath our home into the heating ducts,&#8221; the\u200c president stated. &#8220;To make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">long story short<\/a>, I\u200d almost lost my\u2062 wife,\u2064 my \u201867 Corvette, and my\u200d cat.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, \u200ba 2004\u200d local news story explained that the\u2064 event at Biden&#8217;s Delaware home was a &#8220;small fire&#8221; that was &#8220;contained&#8221; to the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily, we got it pretty early,&#8221; Cranston Heights Fire Company Chief \u200cGeorge Lamborn said at the time.\u200c &#8220;The fire was under control\u200d in 20 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mere hours \u2062after touching down, Biden \u2064was headed back to \u2064Lake Tahoe to resume his second weeklong vacation in the past month,&#8221;\u2064 Republican National Committee spokesman Jake Schneider said in\u200d a statement. &#8220;There\u2019s a reason furious\u200d Maui residents lined the road with signs accusing Biden of being &#8216;too\u2063 late&#8217; \u2014\u2062 because \u2064he was.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden visited Hawaii on Monday, two weeks after devastating wildfires ravaged multiple islands, claiming over 100 lives and countless structures. 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