“I just wanted to say how he was so present with so many, like one after one afte– hundr– he spoke with, like, hundreds of people and hugged them and kissed their cheek and heard what we all had to say, and there were really–,” one of the Maui residents who spoke with President Joe Biden during his visit to the devastated island said to a local news crew. “Since this happened there haven’t been that many smiles in one place on this island and it was profoundly touching.”
Joe didn’t throw paper towels. Joe didn’t joke with a homeowner about a boat laying in your backyard after a hurricane. And he didn’t tell the survivors of wildfires to rake the forest. It seems Joe knows how to relate to people.