Biden sparks outrage by comparing Hawaiian blaze that killed at least 114 to a KITCHEN fire at his house after making tone-deaf 'hot ground' joke to rescuer: Greeted by furious residents on arrival

  • 11 months ago
Furious Hawaiians greeted Joe Biden with expletive-ridden chants and loud boos on Monday as he visited the island of Maui 13 days after deadly wildfires begun. The president and his wife Jill landed on Maui to be met with screams of 'F*** you!' as his motorcade passed. Some were seen waving Trump 2024 flags. The 80-year-old only compounded the anger by using a speech at a charred sacred Banyan tree to speak about his own loss - that of his wife and baby daughter in 1972 - and then reference his own experience of a house fire, at his Delaware home in 2004. His home in Wilmington was struck by lightning, causing a small fire to spark - but it did not spread outside the kitchen. Biden then made a clumsy joke while greeting rescue teams, asking a dog handler whether his boots were reinforced and noting: 'Hot ground.'

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