It’s safe to say that the “no comment” by Joe Biden regarding the destruction and devastation on Maui polled VERY badly.

We knew that almost instantly because of the way Team Biden then started tweeting/posting from Joe’s account, claiming that he was “laser-focused” on Maui – and here’s a one-time payment of $700 per household to prove it! Now, $700 isn’t nothing, but if you are a family with children and you’ve lost your home and all your possessions, is it anything?

The Biden administration’s Maui response has been truly terrible, especially considering how they love marketing Joe as some kind of empathy guru because his family has gone through so many personal tragedies. The problem is that Joe has worn out the empathy card as he’s continued to lie about the circumstances of his legitimate personal losses, and continues to demonstrate that he has no empathy for anyone who doesn’t have the last name Biden until the poll numbers come back. So the administration tried to have kindly Grandpa Joe say a few words about Maui while he was doing an event in Milwaukee, but Joe apparently forgot where the fires were.

Biden seemed to grasp for the name of Maui during a brief detour Tuesday from prepared remarks loaded into teleprompters for his speech in Milwaukee, Wisc. — referring to it as “the one where you see on television all of the time.”

“I apologize because I try very hard to keep my speeches between 15 and 18 minutes, but I got to talk a little bit about Hawaii,” Biden said as he began a speech that was supposed to tout his own economic policies.”

“The Army helicopters helped fire suppression efforts on the Big Island because there’s still some burning on the Big Island — not the one that, not the one where you see on television all the time,” he said, mixing up Hawaii, known as the Big Island, and Maui.”

Biden said he intends to travel eventually to tour the damage on Maui but that he’s not prepared to set a date.”

“My wife Jill and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can,” he said. “That’s what I’ve been talking to the governor about. I don’t want to get in the way. I’ve been to too many disaster areas. But I want to go make sure we got everything they need. Want to be sure we don’t disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts.”

BIDEN: "I've been to too many disaster areas"

What about East Palestine, Ohio? pic.twitter.com/iNNFxCXKL9

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 15, 2023

The polling must still be bad, because the very next day, the administration announced that Joe and Jill would be going to Maui next Monday. This set off the locals, who are struggling with survival and loss.

With pressure mounting for him to visit and discuss the federal government’s response to the Maui wildfires, Biden announced Wednesday that he would visit the devastated island come Monday, much to the dissatisfaction of some island residents.”

“I don’t want him here,” Jay Awan, of Lahaina, told The Post Wednesday. “He’s just coming to Maui to look good in front of the cameras.”

Awan, 45, a cook and tiki carver, said nothing would be gained from the 80-year-old president’s visit, as his town, a once-popular resort area, has been “burned to the ground.”

Peter Friedgen, another Lahaina resident, agreed with the sentiment, adding that he “don’t care if the president comes.”

The 66-year-old guitarist said he lost everything in the fire except for his instrument, which he strum while waiting on the outskirts of the charred city for officials to come.”

“It’s a waiting game now for someone to show up — the government, insurers,” he said. “I’ve just been down the beach, waiting for people to get into town.”

Kristi Bowman, 60, an accountant who lived in the city, said that she does want Biden to visit, but only to help relay the devastation with the rest of the world and verbalize the federal government’s commitment to helping the island.”

“We haven’t had federal support,” Bowman said. “We’ve had local support, not federal.”

Bowman slammed FEMA for its strict bureaucracy that was causing tension on the island, with the accountant seeing a recent claim filed on behalf of clients who lost their home get immediately rejected.”

“I filed an application for somebody for disaster funding and it already got denied, saying they didn’t have proof from the insurance company over how much their losses were — but there’s no possible way to get that information right now.”

She also scoffed at reports that Biden promised to deliver $700 one-time relief grants per household to those impacted by the fires.”

With the residents’ frustration, Biden faces an uphill battle to ease the people of West Maui, and his recent gaffes have not helped.”

The anger and frustration is also mounting against local officials, who are trying to defend the decision to NOT sound off any of the sirens.
https://twitter.com/Truthpole/status/1692239780489437392
And one of the reasons that the anger is swelling on the ground is directly related to the growing dread that many of the missing and presumed dead are children.

Hawaii state Rep. Elle Cochran told the Wall Street Journal she fears the final tally could be several hundred dead — with a large portion likely kids.”

Several schools in and around Lahaina were scheduled to open for the fall semester on Tuesday last week, when the wildfire started raging, but classes were canceled due to a power outage.”

That meant many kids were likely home alone, or with grandparents, while their parents went to work.”

“Our parents work one, two, three jobs just to get by and they can’t afford to take a day off,” Jessica Sill, a kindergarten teacher at King Kamehameha III Elementary School, told the WSJ.”

“Without school, there was nowhere for [children] to go that day.”

King Kamehameha III Elementary School was located on Front Street in Lahaina, and is now burned to the ground.

It is in the middle of all of this that Joe Biden will now be showing up on Monday, but in order to try and backfill some of that missing empathy quotient, his staff filmed him giving a statement (so much the better to edit you, my dear, said the big bad wolf) and then promptly pushed it out to “Good Morning America” on ABC where the obedient little media lemmings put it on the air this morning.

Gotta love that teleprompter read and the multiple angle cuts to get an approximately 80 second statement from Joe Biden out there. Sadly, Biden doesn’t even remember what he said now, as he proved when the press got close enough to ask him a question.

"Can you tell us about your Hawaii trip, sir?"

BIDEN: "No" pic.twitter.com/ok4wrelK0q

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 17, 2023

Oh dear Lord. The look on Karine Jean-Pierre’s face. She’s going to be drinking in her office later – hopefully she remembers to switch back to her own Twitter/X account before posting anything.

A question like “can you tell us about your Hawaii trip, sir” is a softball. Why can’t Biden simply say, “I am going to look at the devastation and assure the people of Maui that we are standing with them”? Because his brain is Swiss cheese, that’s why. He reads the words off the teleprompter, they come out of his mouth, and they leave the brain. A president that wasn’t in the grip of senility would be able to think on his feet and give a basic anodyne response that DOESN’T START WITH THE WORDS “NO, NOT NOW.”

What’s the over-under on him bringing Beau’s death up when he’s standing in front of the people of Lahaina who have lost homes and possibly children to this wildfire?

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