{"id":2008261,"date":"2023-08-22T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-in-desperate-attempt-to-be-relatable-with-exaggerated-story-about-losing-his-home\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:16:55","slug":"biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-in-desperate-attempt-to-be-relatable-with-exaggerated-story-about-losing-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-in-desperate-attempt-to-be-relatable-with-exaggerated-story-about-losing-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s insensitive remarks mock Maui wildfire victims, using an exaggerated tale to appear relatable."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-in-desperate-attempt-to-be-relatable-with-exaggerated-story-about-losing-his-home%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=2008261&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>When Your Loony Grandpa Turns Thanksgiving Dinner into a Harebrained Anecdote, It&#8217;s Endearing. When the President \u200cDoes It, Not So Much.<\/h2>\n<p>And for \u2063anyone who\u2019s been remotely following President Joe Biden\u2019s exploits\u200c over the past several years, you already\u200b know where this is \u2063going.<\/p>\n<p>Biden finally mustered the effort to\u200d show his face in Hawaii weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-in-desperate-attempt-to-be-relatable-with-exaggerated-story-about-losing-his-home\/\" title=\"Biden's insensitive remarks mock Maui wildfire victims, using an exaggerated tale to appear relatable.\">devastating wildfires effectively razed<\/a> the beachfront town of Lahaina, claiming \u2064over a hundred lives.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the\u200b sort of effort you\u2019d expect from a\u200d college student procrastinating on a term paper \u2014 not POTUS following \u200csuch a deadly\u2064 tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, some \u200bway,\u2062 Biden actually made things worse when he did arrive by insultingly trying to turn these tragedies \u200binto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-kicks-off-maui-trip-making-cracking-jokes-people-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grandpa Joe Story Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden says \u201cJill and I have a little\u2062 sense of what it\u2019s like to lose a home\u201d and then tells the\u200b story of when lightning \u200dstruck his house in \u200d2004 and says \u201cI almost lost my \u201967 corvette and my cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to \u200ca report from the time, the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ignores-hawaii-senators-question-looks-completely-out-of-it-as-he-shuffles-off-stage\/\" title=\"Biden disregards Hawaii Senator's query, appears disoriented while leaving stage.\">lighting strike caused \u201c<\/a>a \u2062small fire\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V8IBfoZuEW\">pic.twitter.com\/V8IBfoZuEW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg\u2064 Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1693783604411703663?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As Biden addressed the scores of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/protesters-wait-outside-west-maui-airport-send-biden-brutal-message-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unhappy local Hawaiians<\/a>, the president, perhaps in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-hochul-fails-to-insert-denser-housing-into-suburbs-through-state-budget\/\" title=\"NY Gov. Hochul Fails to Insert Denser Housing into Suburbs Through State Budget\">ill-advised attempt<\/a> \u200cto seem relatable, dredged up an old incident from his past.<\/p>\n<p>It would\u2019ve been a perfectly \u2063relatable and human \u200bmoment for Biden \u2014 if only the story were remotely as\u2063 harrowing as \u200che made it out to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t\u2063 want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it\u2019s like to lose \u2064a home,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>(If Biden were actually trying \u200bto empathize, \u2062perhaps he could, you know, offer up more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-offers-maui-fire-survivors-one-time-pittance-day-200-million-announced-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$700 to Hawaiian families<\/a> the same day he sent $200 million \u2063in military aid to Ukraine.)<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old president continued: \u200d\u201cYears ago, now,\u200b 15 years ago, I was in Washington, doing \u2018Meet the Press,\u2019 \u200bit was a sunny Sunday.\u200b And lightning struck at \u200bhome, on a little lake that\u2019s outside of our home. Not a lake, a big pond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd hit a wire, and came \u2062up underneath our home, into\u2063 the heating ducts, air \u200dconditioning duct. 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 \u200dalmost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette, \u200dand\u200c my\u200c cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s at this point that the president begins to \u2064veer\u200d off into an elderly tangent about a fire station from his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>If this near-catastrophic incident sounds at all familiar\u200c to you, it\u2019s because Biden\u2062 dredged up this exact \u2064incident back \u200cin 2022,\u200b according to \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/watch-biden-again-adds-fuel-to-story-about-lightning-sparking-fire-at-his-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington \u200dExaminer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Biden\u200d shared this same anecdote while addressing \u200cresidents of Colorado who, coincidentally, were grappling with \u200dthe\u200d aftermath of fires in early\u2062 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This would \u2063all be\u2062 fine and great if Biden\u2019s story was anywhere near true.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u200cExaminer noted, even back then, \u2062over a year and a half ago, this\u200b lightning story was bunk.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a 2004 Associated\u200c Press report, the\u2063 Examiner called out the fact that this \u200cpotentially disastrous fire was a relatively\u200d simple problem that was resolved within 20\u2064 minutes \u200band largely contained to just the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>In other words,\u2064 it\u2019s literally nothing like the abject horror \u200band devastation that people on Maui face.<\/p>\n<p>Look,\u2063 there\u2019s a time to empathize and there\u2019s a time to sympathize.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Biden isn\u2019t that he doesn\u2019t know when to do what.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Biden is that he flat-out stinks at empathizing <em>and <\/em>sympathizing.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/maui-fire-survivor-puts-biden-blast-kind-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire treatment<\/a> \u2062 of the people of Hawaii\u200c has made that painfully, abundantly clear.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-desperate-attempt-relatable-exaggerated-story-losing-home\/\">Biden Insults Maui Wildfire Victims in Desperate Attempt to Be Relatable with Exaggerated Story About Losing His Home<\/a> appeared first on \u200c <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>paying attention, it&#8217;s concerning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2008262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}