While talking to survivors of the Maui Wildfires Monday, President Joe Biden told them he knew what it was like to lose his house because a small fire broke out in his Delaware home in 2004.
"I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home," Biden told the crowd. He said because of the fire—which firefighters called "insignificant"—he "almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat."
Biden is no stranger to making other people's tragedies about himself. Earlier that same day, he brought up his first wife and daughter, who died in a 1972 car crash, while giving remarks commemorating those who perished in the wildfires. The death toll of the fires sits at 115, with over 1,000 missing.
After 13 U.S. service members were killed in a terrorist bombing in Afghanistan, family members of the victims who met with Biden said he would not stop talking about his own son who died, Beau Biden. The president's son served in Iraq and died from cancer in 2015.
"It was more about his son. My son wasn’t mentioned," said Jim McCollum, the father of Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, one of the Americans who died in the ISIS bombing.