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. Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui were left devastated by the destruction of fires.

ā€œAfter a couple hours on the Rehoboth beach,ā€ Biden ā€œwas 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, ā€œNo commentā€ to the reporter’s question.

The president’s comment was reportedly seen from lip readers, though he was not heard, according to the White House press pool report.

ā€œWow. What a scumbag,ā€ conservative political commentator Matt Walsh wrote in a post.

Conservative author and commentator, Katie Pavlich commented on Sink’s post by saying, ā€œWow. What a nice guy.ā€

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ā€œPut Americans first!ā€ Richard Grenell, the former acting director of National Intelligence, wrote.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1690895075059126272

ā€œIn Maui: 93 (& counting) Americans are dead,ā€ former candidate for Arizona governor in 2022, Kari Lake wrote. ā€œ1,000 are missing. One of the most beautiful places on earth has been reduced to cinders.ā€

Lake pointed out how in Delaware, Biden couldn’t ā€œbe bothered to care.ā€

ā€œPutting 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.