Biden once more compares devastating Maui blaze to kitchen hearth in his residence

President Biden on Wednesday once more in contrast the catastrophic Maui wildfire to a small kitchen hearth at his Delaware residence, regardless of being broadly blasted on social media for having instructed the identical story final week.

Speaking on the White House about his administration’s response to the devastating wildfire, Mr. Biden once more sought to console Maui residents by speaking about his kitchen hearth.

The president mentioned he might sympathize with those that’ve misplaced every thing within the wildfire as a result of his kitchen as soon as caught on hearth practically 20 years in the past.

“Lighting struck my house. We had to be out of that house for about seven months of repairs because so much damage was done to the house and half the house collapsed. You know, and you wonder what’s going to happen,” Mr. Biden mentioned.

Though saying “half the house collapsed” was a brand new twist, it was just about an identical to the identical story Mr. Biden instructed final week whereas in Maui to satisfy with wildfire victims.

“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” Mr. Biden mentioned. “Years ago, now 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ … Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home. Not a lake, a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the … air condition ducts.”

“To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat,” he continued.

Critics blasted the president on social media after the remarks, with many calling it tone-deaf to match the minor residence hearth to huge wildfires which have killed greater than 115 folks with 338 extra lacking.

Some additionally questioned whether or not or not the story was true. An Associated Press story in 2004 described the incident as “a small fire … contained to the kitchen” that was “under control in 20 minutes.”

“Joe Biden is lying about his kitchen fire … again,” conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote on X, the social-media website previously generally known as Twitter, after Mr. Biden’s remarks Wednesday.

“Joe Biden just compared what people are going through with the hurricane and the Maui wildfires … to the small kitchen fire he had 20 years ago! This time he claims that his house almost collapsed. What the hell is wrong with him?!?,” one other Twitter consumer wrote.