Donald Trump Jr. Calls for ‘Outrage’ Over Joe Biden’s St. Croix Trip

Donald Trump Jr. is lashing out at President Joe Biden for taking a “tropical trip” after a lethal winter storm sacked massive components of the nation.

In a tweet on Friday, Trump in contrast the supposed lack of ire over Biden’s household trip within the Caribbean to the backlash that Republican Senator Ted Cruz obtained after fleeing Texas for Cancun, Mexico, amid a lethal winter storm and widespread blackouts in his dwelling state in February 2021.

“The place is the outrage about Joe Biden happening a pleasant tropical trip whereas the nation suffers via a ‘polar vortex bomb cyclone?'” Trump tweeted. “Bear in mind what they did to Ted Cruz? A president can truly do one thing about these items {that a} senator cannot and but whole silence? WTF?”

Though Trump stated that Biden was vacationing “whereas” the bomb cyclone was occurring, the president truly departed for the U.S. Virgin Islands after the climate occasion had dissipated. Nevertheless, some storm-battered areas like Buffalo, New York, are persevering with to take care of the aftermath.

Regardless of his trip, the White Home disputes Trump’s suggestion that Biden is refusing “do one thing about these items,” insisting that the president is constant to work and monitor the state of affairs whereas he’s in St. Croix.

“Irrespective of the place the President is, he’s working,” a White Home spokesperson informed Newsweek in a press release this week. “The President will proceed to intently monitor updates and can stay in shut contact with workers over the New 12 months.”

Trump’s suggestion that Biden has obtained little or no criticism for taking his trip is fake. Quite a few distinguished conservatives, together with Cruz, have signaled their disapproval of the journey since Biden and his household left Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

“MASSIVE winter storms paralyzed the nation and Biden was taking a seashore trip within the Caribbean,” Republican Consultant Ronny Jackson of Texas tweeted on Wednesday. “The place was the media to demand he return to the White Home to work? Did anybody even discover he was gone?”

“The place is the media outrage over Joe Biden abandoning his nation throughout a historic blizzard to trip on a seashore in St. Croix?” tweeted conservative writer and self-proclaimed “alpha male” Nick Adams.

Former Republican Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee described Biden’s journey as proof that the president “would not give a rip what’s occurring to the American public” throughout a Fox Information interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday.

“I imply, he may have not less than stuffed up Air Power One with a bunch of individuals from Buffalo, New York, and brought them right down to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a while within the solar,” Huckabee stated. “That may have been good.”

Criticism of Biden’s journey didn’t come completely from conservatives. Progressive Democrat Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and congressional candidate, described the journey as “unacceptable” whereas evaluating it to Cruz’s 2021 tour.

“For those who have been (rightfully) outraged that Senator Ted Cruz went to Cancún whereas Texans froze to dying final yr, you ought to be outraged that President Biden went on trip whereas People froze to dying in Buffalo this previous week,” Turner tweeted on Thursday. “Each are unacceptable.”

Some additionally criticized Biden for leaving the White Home whereas there was uncertainty on the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of authorized standing of the Title 42 immigration coverage, which the Supreme Courtroom briefly prolonged simply after Biden departed.

“The place is @POTUS throughout this disaster?” Republican Consultant Jim Banks of Indiana tweeted earlier than the ruling was made on Tuesday. “Vacationing in St. Croix.”

Newsweek has reached out to the White Home for extra remark.