President Biden offered a stony-hearted “No comment” Sunday when asked about the mounting death toll in the catastrophic Maui wildfire — the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century — after sunning himself on a beach near his Delaware home.
The 80-year-old commander-in-chief gave the unsympathetic non-answer as the death toll climbed to 96 late Sunday.
“After a couple hours on the Rehoboth beach, @potus was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii,” Bloomberg reporter Justin Sink wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
“‘No comment,’ he said before heading home,” added the White House correspondent, who also posted a photo of Biden, 80, lounging with a group of people in the distance.
Biden again avoided reporters returning to Washington on Monday morning.
After the president’s Marine One helicopter landed, he walked across the White House lawn to the Oval Office without approaching the press to give a statement on the tragedy, as US leaders often do.
