‘He Doesn’t Give A S***’: While Americans Face Deadly Cold Snap, Biden’s Off To The Sunny Virgin Islands

President Joe Biden and his wife Jill are being slammed for heading off on a New Year’s vacation to the Virgin Islands while Americans across the nation suffer freezing temperatures According to reports, at least 70 people were killed in the attack. This has prompted outrage on social networks.

The Bidens’ destination, the Caribbean island of St. Croix, is currently seeing temperatures well above 80 degrees and hosted the couple in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Since 2008, the Daily Mail reports that the Bidens have been to the Caribbean every year. noted. The president and first lady will depart Tuesday, before returning to Washington, D.C., in January 2.

“Joe and Jill are headed to sunny warm St. Croix, U.S., Virgin Islands for a little vacation, while people in Buffalo are freezing to death in their cars. He doesn’t give a s***!” One conservative critic dismissed the idea.

Additional comments are available. “Joe is in the warm Virgin Islands getting ready to celebrate New Year’s while Americans at home freeze to death,” “Buffalo citizens are freezing and dying while Joe Biden bikes in the Virgin Islands,” And “I remember a time when Presidents at least made an effort to feign compassion, leadership, sacrifice, etc. A time when optics mattered. Not this President. While half the country freezes, this a**hole runs off to the Virgin Islands.”

Temperatures dropped below freezing across the entire continental United States over the weekend in all states. At least 28 people were killed in Buffalo, New York by the massive snowfall and freezing temperatures.

While hundreds of flights across the country have been cancelled due to severe weather, the Bidens will fly on Air Force One. Thousands of flights scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday were canceled by Southwest Airlines; by midday EST  Tuesday, over 2,900 U.S. flights were canceled and another 2,400 others delayed, according to FlightAware.

Over 2,600 flights were cancelled in the U.S. on Thursday last week The New York Times reported.

In the first 589 days Biden served as president, he spent 234 days — roughly 40% — on vacation, the New York Post noted In August, 70% of his vacation time was spent in Delaware.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates defended Biden’s vacations, saying, “The presidency is a nonstop job that chief executives can do from anywhere in the world. Regardless of location, he has taken fewer vacation days than the modern norm. Being somewhere other than the White House is not the same thing as being on vacation.”

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