What is with this guy?
President Joe Biden, for the second time in less than two weeks, compared the devastation of a widespread natural disaster to that time his house was struck by lightning. Biden’s most recent comments came as he addressed the devastation wrought by Hurricane Idalia as well as the wildfires in Hawaii.
“I didn’t have anything like that, but lightning struck my house,” Biden said from the White House Wednesday. “We had to be out of that house for about seven months while it was repaired because so much damage was done to the house.”
“Half the house almost collapsed,” he tacked on for good measure.
Biden again compares his kitchen fire to the wildfires in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia. pic.twitter.com/7dUIm8KUDj
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) August 30, 2023
What actually happened was a small kitchen fire that happened in 2004. Here’s how the Associated Press covered it at the time:
Lightning struck the home of Sen. Joseph Biden, starting a…