Biden decides to monitor deadly US winter storms from warmer climes this week

Frigid temperatures and blizzards all across America in the last few days have been deadly:

The death toll from the historic blizzard across the U.S. climbed to 65 on Tuesday as record snowfall blocked roads, hindering rescue operations, officials said.

Confirming seven additional deaths in Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the storm was “probably worse than anything that this city has seen in over 50 years.”

At a Zoom news conference later Tuesday, Brown said another body had been recovered. By the end of the afternoon, Erie County’s medical examiner had confirmed three additional deaths, raising the storm-related death toll to 32 for the county, which recorded the vast majority of New York’s 34 deaths.

In addition, there’s been a huge problem with canceled flights, but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg would like everybody to know that he’s all over it:

“What we’re seeing is something beyond what can be attributed to the weather.”

With Southwest Airlines canceling 60% of their flights both today and tomorrow, @SecretaryPete weighs in on the holiday travel nightmare and shares what he wants passengers to know. pic.twitter.com/R2f0PsgMQe

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) December 28, 2022

Where’s President Biden in all this? Let’s just say the president and his family are quite comfortable:

.@POTUS and the Bidens have landed in St. Croix for vacation. pic.twitter.com/SukAQQsjrY

— Akayla Gardner (@gardnerakayla) December 28, 2022

President Biden left the White House Tuesday night for a tropical vacation in St. Croix to ring in the New Year — as much of the country deals with extreme cold and snowfall that has killed at least 65 people and canceled 10,000 flights since Christmas Eve.

The 80-year-old commander-in-chief will bask in the Caribbean sun near an in-ground pool at a three-bedroom beachfront villa with sweeping views on the largest of the US Virgin Islands.

Meanwhile, travel chaos, widespread power outages and rising deaths caused by single-digit weather continue across the Midwest and East Coast, but especially in western New York, where at least 32 people died in Buffalo’s Erie County amid more than 4 feet of snow.

It’s unclear who owns the vacation property or whether Biden will be paying for his stay, though he has a long record of staying for free at the houses of wealthy Democratic donors.

Is Biden going to scold his rich friends for not paying their “fair share” while staying with them? Don’t bet on it. Meanwhile, people are noticing a double standard when it comes to Biden and a certain US senator from Texas:

I’m so old I remember when flying to a tropical destination while people were freezing to death was frowned upon. https://t.co/fKkB1UUjr3

— Brittany (@bccover) December 28, 2022

Surely the media will give wall-to-wall scandal coverage of this like they did to Cruz. And like they’d do to DeSantis if he was this tone-deaf.

If not, why not? https://t.co/J98OZjcgoI

— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) December 28, 2022

While people are literally dying in their cars from a winter storm here stateside, Biden takes his family to the sunny and warm Virgin Islands. Gosh, I remember a certain Senator getting absolutely torn down for a mere trip to Cancun when his state was having issues. https://t.co/lkdFSyZys0

— Kristi (@TheyCallMeNans) December 28, 2022

One thing’s for sure: The media’s not going to dig into this story like they did when Sen. Cruz went to Cancun.

The press treated Ted Cruz, a senator with no role in state-level emergency response, going to Cancun for a day during an ice storm as a national scandal.

Biden heads to St. Croix during a blizzard that has killed 50+ people and the press just snap pictures with no comment. https://t.co/zBvRIWRU8O

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 28, 2022

Not sure how this is any different than when Ted Cruz went to Mexico.

Remember liberals losing their minds over that?

And Cruz had FAR less power to help struggling Americans than Biden does.

Again, the Left's hypocrisy is staggering. https://t.co/ZR9amtNsD3

— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 28, 2022

Close your eyes and imagine the media reaction if Trump had taken a long Caribbean vacation during a deadly winter storm while spouting gibberish about 'global warming'. https://t.co/SqBN6RRbA1

— Jim Daws (@RightNowJimDaws) December 28, 2022

Can you only imagine?

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Sen. Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun shows journalists can really dig into a story when they want to

That one time AOC thread-shamed Ted Cruz for going to Cancún during a winter storm comes back to BITE her in the arse in a HUGE way