Posted on 08/22/2023 2:21:18 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Joe Biden was greeted by angry protesters Monday when he finally visited Maui to tour the catastrophic damage caused by the devastating Hawaiian wildfires that killed at least 114 people, with 1,000 people missing.
Several dozen residents heckled the octogenarian’s motorcade when he departed the Kapalua Airport en route to Lahaina, which went up in flames on Aug. 8.
“As he drove toward downtown Lahaina, Biden passed signs that said ‘NO COMMENT,’ ‘REALLY $7?,’ ‘ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS,’ and ‘FJB,’ as well as at least two flags promoting the 2024 candidacy of former President Donald Trump,” the New York Post reported.
Other protesters unleashed their pent-up anger over Biden’s delayed response by chanting, “Go home, Joe!”
According to Hawaii News Now, Maui residents lined the streets with signs that read, “He’s too late” and “He should’ve been here much earlier.”
Local resident Dennis Mullen was furious, telling the Post there have been few supply deliveries to the airport hosting the presidential helicopter.
“Where has the president been?” he said. “Any number of military aircraft, planes and helicopters could have flown in here. To leave a town that was just devastated shut down was just ridiculous.”
Mullen added: “On the west side of Maui, where neighborhoods had burned down, there was desperate need and no one came to help.”
The hostility Biden is facing from Maui residents is unusual since Hawaii has been a blue state for the past 60 years.
However, the resentment is understandable, given the president’s delayed, apathetic reaction to the deadly wildfires.
Biden blithely remained on vacation in Delaware as flames engulfed Maui.
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Looks like Jill is having fun. She is stuck with him. She deserves every diaper change coming to her.
Would love to see Hirono go there and get the same treatment.
hm... my guess is, Ted Cruz is off the hook now when Texas froze. Wasn’t that FJB’s first climate change event?
It is a tragedy that all those people died, and the idiots will still keep on voting democrat. Same as San Francisco, Chicago and New York. When will they learn? Never. Stupid morons should not be allowed to vote. Gavin Newscum ruined San Francisco and now he’s running for president. Heaven help us.
People in Maui may have woken up on Biden but not the large part of the state unaffected by the fires. Dems will forever win in HI.
A few years ago we had a 500 year flood in our small town.
Mobile homes floated away along with brand new homes, bridges, etc.
When FEMA finally came in we anxiously waited for help with clean up and sanitation.
FEMA reps arrived and stayed for weeks (probably at a hefty per diem), but they only set up little tables in the hardware store and passed out brochures and helped fill out endless forms.
When the FEMA checks finally arrived, it was $700 per family, most of whom lost everything they owned.
No loss of life here though, very grateful for that.
God help the folks of Lahaina.
A can of Spam for every Hawaiian who switches their vote from DemRAT.
MANSIONS OF THE LORD
Since 1775, over 5 MILLION of us have paid the ultimate price for the America the Founders toiled to leave us and we’re now THROWING IT AWAY?
WHY DON’T WE JUST PISS ON THEIR GRAVES?
https://youtu.be/_WDrbbtaO0E
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