President Joe Biden flew to Maui and spoke to survivors nearly two weeks after devastating wildfires killed at least 114.
in his first visit to Maui after the wildfires made a couple of jokes that came off to many as tone deaf amid the death and devastation.historic city that almost entirely burned downIn doing so, the president specifically pointed out that it threatened his classic car, and said he was ‘kidding’.
‘I don’t want to compare difficulties but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home,’ he said on Monday, wearing a lei that Hawaiians give as a symbol of Aloha.supports HTML5 video Biden said the incident happened 15 years ago in Washington, DC, when lighting struck a pond outside his home.
‘It hit a wire and came underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning duct. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette,’ he said with a chuckle. ‘And my cat.’He commended the firefighters who ‘ran into the flames, saved my wife, saved my family. Not a joke.’‘Being out of our home for the better part of a year is difficult,’ he concluded. ‘I can only image what it’s like to lose your home.’from wildfires that began August 8.
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