President Joe Biden was silent on Twitter about the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, until the day before former President Donald Trump was set to arrive.
After the train wreck on February 3, that prompted the evacuation of residents of the town due to toxic chemical exposure, Biden was silent about it on his official presidential Twitter account @POTUS until February 21 — the day before Trump was to arrive, according to a review of the account.
His first tweet on the disaster also came after he made a surprise visit across the world to Ukraine, to mark the Ukraine war’s one year mark this week.
His top aides on a conference call boasted about how logistically difficult the trip was, and how much it meant to the president to visit Ukraine and stand next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I reaffirmed my commitment to making sure they have everything they need,” he tweeted as part of a thread.
Biden also tweeted as part of the thread, “I want affected residents to know that we’ve got your back. And as I said to your govs, they’ll have every resource that they need.”
