Lahaina Residents BLAST Biden For Pushing 'Build Back Better' In Maui After 115 Dead - 'There's No Better, There's No New'

A Maui resident speaking to reporters on Wednesday slammed Democrat incumbent President Joe Biden and called upon him to honor his promise to the people of Lahaina and help them rebuild their homes and community. But with a clarification: they don't want to 'build back better,' because there 'is no better.'

It would seem that based on reporting from Fox News, Biden's already spectacularly tone-deaf messaging in the Aloha State hit an even more sour note Monday at the Lahaina Civic Center. He told the gathered and grieving families "We're gonna build back better," apparently treating the somber and heartbreaking moment as a campaign stump with his well-trod campaign phrase. "We’re going to rebuild the way the people of Maui want to rebuild," he claimed.

Local resident Alicia Kalepa appeared to take issue with Biden's assertion that he would direct the island to be built back "better" in her comments to reporters.

"As far as building a 'better' community or 'better' homes than what we had — I unfortunately didn't like that," she told Hawaii News Now.

 "For Kapuna and for the Lahaina family, and for a lot of people that had lost what they had lost, there's no replacing that, there's no 'better,' there's no 'new.’" 

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Hawaii's Governor Josh Green (D-HI) echoed the sentiment in a video now being shared online.

Many commenters on social media shared a particularly dark view of Biden's statements. One commenter noted to RNC Research, "It’s all about the Elite and Rich driving out people and property ownership so they can rebuild back better as investors rebuilding Maui as a “Smart City”. It is a hazardous way the rich is doing what they want and getting what they want. As Biden would say Build back better"

As previously reported by DC Enquirer, the death toll from the catastrophic wildfire that engulfed the Maui beach town of Lahiana stands at 115 as of this report with over 1,000 missing, according to The New York Times. This has caused the backlash, both local and nationwide, against the Biden administration's handling of the situation to mount.

Biden generated a huge outcry of criticism when he seemed to allude to a minor kitchen fire by way of an almost joking non-comparison on Monday, according to The Daily Wire.

"I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home." Biden claimed.

"Years ago — now 15 years ago — I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that’s outside of our home — not a lake, a big pond — and hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts — the air conditioning ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat.”

The Associated Press confirmed the fire as "a small fire that was contained to the kitchen," at the Biden residence, perhaps one of the poorest false equivalencies ever uttered.