Joe Biden’s visit to Maui — almost two weeks after the fact — was already too little, too late.
Then he made it all about himself.
First, Biden emerged from an aerial tour of the devastation with a grin, then he botched the names of Hawaii’s delegation and mumbled through his boilerplate remarks before being guided away from the podium.
Then — while hundreds of people remain missing — Biden told a gathering of victims and survivors a completely made-up story about losing his own home to a fire.
“I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat,” he joked — except that story never happened. According to a 2004 AP report, it was a “small fire that was contained to the kitchen.”
Sadly, it wasn’t the first time Biden leveraged an untrue story to feign empathy with disaster victims.
Finally, mere hours after touching down, Biden was headed back to Lake Tahoe to resume his second weeklong vacation in the past month.
There’s a reason furious Maui residents lined the road with signs accusing Biden of being “too late” — because he was.
