Biden on Tuesday traveled to New York and New Jersey to tour areas struck by deadly flooding from Tropical Storm Ida, but he received a hostile reception from many North Jersey residents.
Biden landed at JFK airport in New York at 10:55 a.m. and traveled first to Manville, NJ, where he blamed global warming for the flooding last week that killed at least 50 in the Northeast, 13 of them in New York City.
In New Jersey, a man in Manville shouted “resign, you tyrant!” as Biden toured a devastated neighborhood.
A pool report indicated the heckler was standing with a Trump flag in his front yard as he shouted at Biden. It was unclear to reporters if Biden could hear the man.
Other pro-Trump protesters had greeted Biden’s motorcade along its route through North Jersey.
A boy was photographed giving the president a middle finger as he drove by and one person held a US flag-turned-protest banner that said “F— Biden And F— You for voting For Him.”
Biden delivered remarks during a listening session with officials.
“For decades, scientists have warned of extreme weather and it would be more extreme and climate change was here, and we’re living through it now. We don’t have any more time,” Biden said during a briefing with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.
“I’ve been on the telephone or on the road an awful lot between California, Idaho, New Orleans — excuse not New Orleans, Louisiana, but in New Orleans — Mississippi, and, you know, here. I mean, every part of the country, every part of the country is getting hit by extreme weather, and we’re now living in real time what the country’s gonna look like,” Biden added.
“We can’t turn it back very much, but we can prevent it from getting worse.”
Biden, who approved disaster declarations for parts of New Jersey and New York, will on Tuesday afternoon visit Queens, where 13 people died after Ida’s torrential rains produced flash floods that poured into basement apartments, trapping the residents.
In Manville, residents dealt not only with catastrophic flooding but explosions caused by gas leaks that leveled a banquet hall.
The president is expected to arrive in Queens around 3:55 p.m. and deliver remarks with Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) about his administration’s response to Ida before leaving JFK Airport for Washington, DC, at 6 p.m.
Angry Woodside residents ripped into other Democrats as they surveyed flood damage — including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Mayor Bill de Blasio — for not doing enough to warn New Yorkers about preparing for the approaching storm and then blaming climate change.
“There was absolutely no warning. I wasn’t expecting water from my own drain to be the one that’s going to kill me,” Danette Rivera. 47, told The Post on Monday as she stood outside her Woodside home.
Biden last Friday toured parts of Louisiana, where Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm and where thousands are still without power amid the devastation.
He took the opportunity to tout his infrastructure package that also includes programs to curb climate change.
“Hurricane Ida is another reminder that we need to be prepared for the next hurricane and superstorms that are going to come, and they’re going to come more frequently and more ferociously,” Biden said last Friday.