President Joe Biden received criticism after allegedly refusing to comment on the rising death toll from the Hawaii fires.
After spending the afternoon at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on Sunday, a reporter asked Biden about the rising death toll which had climbed to 96, Justin Sink, a reporter with Bloomberg News wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Hawaiiās Big Island and Maui were left devastated by the destruction of fires.
āAfter a couple hours on the Rehoboth beach,ā Biden āwas asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii,ā Sink wrote in his post with a photo of Biden lounging on a beach chair with a group of people.
Biden reportedly said, āNo commentā to the reporterās question.
The presidentās comment was reportedly seen from lip readers, though he was not heard, according to the White House press pool report.
āWow. What a scumbag,ā conservative political commentator Matt Walsh wrote in a post.
Conservative author and commentator, Katie Pavlich commented on Sinkās post by saying, āWow. What a nice guy.ā
āPut Americans first!ā Richard Grenell, the former acting director of National Intelligence, wrote.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1690895075059126272
āIn Maui: 93 (& counting) Americans are dead,ā former candidate for Arizona governor in 2022, Kari Lake wrote. ā1,000 are missing. One of the most beautiful places on earth has been reduced to cinders.ā
Lake pointed out how in Delaware, Biden couldnāt ābe bothered to care.ā
āPutting America First means getting this joker out of the White House,ā Lake said.
More than 1,000 people are said to be missing from the Hawaii wildfires, according to the New York Post.
