Fox News host Jesse Watters hammered FEMA officials who reportedly splurged on Maui luxury hotels in the devastating wake of the Lahaina wildfire that turned the city into a mass graveyard.
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“The government is disrespecting us once again. FEMA has turned the Hawaii tragedy into a vacation. According to a report and photos obtained by the Daily Mail, FEMA officials booked themselves into 5-star luxury Hawaiian resorts, where they relaxed at cocktail bars, 45 minutes away from Lahaina,” he stated on X.
“They’re shacking up beachfront at hotels that go for $1,000+ a night, filled with all the luxuries you could imagine. While they live in luxury, FEMA’s administrator, Deanne Criswell, is complaining they don’t have enough money and need more taxpayer cash,” Watters noted, pointing out the brazen hypocrisy of it all.
The Daily Mail reported, “FEMA teams have checked in at three five-star hotels, the Fairmont Kea Lani, Four Seasons, and the Grand Wailea Astoria where past guests include members of Hollywood’s elite.”
The conservative host pummeled FEMA and the Biden administration for its lack of empathy and apparent corruption once again when it comes to the wildfire victims on Maui.
The government is disrespecting us once again. FEMA has turned the Hawaii tragedy into a vacation. According to a report and photos obtained by the Daily Mail, FEMA officials booked themselves into 5-star luxury Hawaiian resorts, where they relaxed at cocktail bars, 45 minutes… http://pic.twitter.com/9qyUv7PIOZ
— Jesse Watters () August 23, 2023
“Fire raged through Maui, Hawaii, leaving 115 dead, 850 Americans missing, hundreds of which are kids, for what’s the deadliest wildfire in US history in over a century,” Watters sadly stated on his Fox News show Tuesday.
“They’re shacking up at the Maui Four Seasons, beachfront of course. Rooms there are $1,000 a night. The presidential suite goes for $29,000 a night. We sure hope they’re not staying there,” he quipped.
Watters was far from finished.
“Hopefully, FEMA officials aren’t getting spa treatments like the $225 one at the Lomi Mohala Massage. We pray they’re not poolside sipping Laurent-Perrier champagne since there’s nothing to celebrate. The Mai Tai at the Maui Four Seasons is $32, gratuity not included,” he pointed out.
.@JoeBiden’s FEMA employees in Maui are staying at the Four Season’s Hotel. The victims in the Maui fires are staying in gyms, tents, and budget hotels. The emperor has no clothes.
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) August 23, 2023
“Now we have boots on the ground there on the island. … It’s not just the Four Seasons. FEMA agents are also posting up at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui, where rooms range there from $1,300 to $4,500 a night. Scuba, surf, and paddle lessons are not complimentary. Neither are the Sunset Pilates classes,” Watters continued.
He snarked, “Do you have to stay limber to hold the leash of your cadaver dog?”
FEMA could have gotten rooms at a quarter of the cost which the Fox News host said his team had verified. They could have stayed at the Days Inn where they would have gotten an ocean-front view for $250 a night.
And Watters’ team also thought they spied FEMA workers getting in some golf while Lahaina smolders and bodies await discovery including an unknown number of children under the rubble.
Maui Mayor refuses to tell press how many children are missing, bizarre showdown triggers outragehttps://t.co/PwJWhADyv5
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) August 22, 2023
Lahaina residents have slammed FEMA over an extremely slow response to the catastrophe. Thousands are homeless and the families of those presumed dead are waiting in agony to find out the fate of their loved ones. There are rumors that FEMA has actively blocked volunteers from delivering aid to the disaster zone.
Meanwhile, President Biden is crowing over each household getting a ridiculous one-time stipend of $700 when they have lost everything. Adding insult to injury, the president stopped by long enough to do a photo-op and compare the worst wildfire in 100 years, costing an estimated $5 billion, to a kitchen fire.
Biden pours salt in the wounds of fire-ravaged Maui residentshttps://t.co/cqMKapm0En
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) August 22, 2023
Rage is building fast over FEMA and the Biden administration’s botching of relief efforts on Maui while they act as if they are on vacation:
This makes my skin crawl! Doesn’t FEMA have tents? ️
— Democrats are a threat to AMERICA (@drdrjojo) August 23, 2023
As a Hawaii resident, I can confirm those are not only some of the nicest resorts on Maui, but they are all needlessly FAR from Lahaina. Plenty of nice rooms in Honokowai and Kaanapali, only 5 minutes up the road from Lahaina.
Pic I took at Grand Wailea, where FEMA’s staying: pic.twitter.com/gfgO8w2Qhz
— Jason Haver (@PretzelLogic) August 23, 2023
Biden’s FEMA staying at 5-star luxury resorts paid by taxpayers.
— Samantha Tango (@LStargazer54) August 23, 2023
Your tax dollars “hard at work” living in 5 Star Hotels. Dems go 1st class on your dime.
— R T (@RDog861) August 23, 2023
This goes way more beyond disrespect – it is complete corruption from the top down!!
— RandomObserver (@RandomO12804434) August 23, 2023
DESPICABLE!
— Shelley Matheny (@ShelleyMatheny) August 23, 2023
Every year I get closer and closer to turning into my dad screaming at the TV.
— Lady Maga (@LadyMAGA7) August 23, 2023
It’s getting very close to a “let them eat cake” moment in this country, how did that turn out for the French Monarchy?
— Zok56 (@Zok561Zok56) August 23, 2023
I want to know the conditions where the cadaver dogs are staying. They have their paws on the ground searching for victims.
— Ginger the Trail Pup (@trail_pup) August 23, 2023
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