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Hey, life’s a beach, man.
President Biden lounged Sunday on Rehoboth Beach while the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui was still smoking, with photos of the once-idyllic paradise showing a charred wasteland.
The grim images, the unfathomable loss of life, the haunting, sickening knowledge the news would only worsen as the days passed: It would have brought any stoic to tears.
But not beach bum Biden.
Ol’ Joe was busy relaxing in his lounge chair for hours getting some vitamin D and living out one of those cheesy “Beach life” mottos you see painted on driftwood.
When asked about the mounting death toll from the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century, he gave a cold, “No comment,” reported Bloomberg White House correspondent Justin Sink, who tweeted a picture of Biden relaxing on the sandy shore, looking like Chris Christie in his infamous 2017 Beachgate scandal.
At that point, a staggering 96 souls had been lost, with many more still unaccounted for.
On Biden’s return to Washington Monday, he avoided reporters altogether.
What kind of human doesn’t have a simple sympathetic sentiment to share? What kind of leader can’t spare a moment to offer a message of hope, sorrow, and support?
Joe Biden, that’s who. The same man often portrayed by our lapdog media as the patron saint of compassion: the Mother Teresa of the Beltway.
NBC News dubbed him our “consoler-in-chief,” Time said he is “unmatched as America’s grief counselor,” and the highbrow New York Review of Books called him “the designated mourner.”
Joe Biden, that’s who. The same man often portrayed by our lapdog media as the patron saint of compassion: the Mother Teresa of the Beltway.
A fawning 2021 opinion piece in the Washington Post on his COVID response said our “commander in grief” has a “superpower”: empathy.
Well, it seems he’s encountered some sort of kryptonite: his true self.
Considering his lifetime achievement of plagiarism and ridiculous lies including everything from claiming the other driver in his wife and daughter’s fatal accident was drunk and he supported gay marriage as far back as his high-school years, I don’t believe he was ever the good ol’ empathetic Uncle Joe sold to the country.
Back in 2020, Biden ran on being a healer, a uniter, a salve to our cracked nation. What a farce.
At 80, he’s clearly too old and too tired to keep up the charade of being decent.
Instead of addressing the traumatized people of Maui, the president put out a statement on social media: “As residents of Hawai’i mourn the loss of life and devastation taking place across their beautiful home, we mourn with them. Like I’ve said, not only our prayers are with those impacted — but every asset we have will be available to them.”
This type of dismissive, callous behavior is hardly isolated for Biden.