Biden faces backlash for dog boot joke in Maui: ‘Hot ground’

President Biden is facing brutal backlash for a quip about a Maui cadaver dog that went viral just hours into his disastrous visit to the site of the deadly wildfires — with critics blasting his ill-timed attempts at comic relief as “poor taste.”

“You guys catch the boots out here? That’s a hot ground, man,” Biden, 80, joked while petting a cadaver dog, Dexter, and chatting with first responders in Lahaina in a video shared by self-proclaimed “news breaker” Greg Price Monday evening.

The president, who owns two German Shepherds, turned to the media and gestured at the small boots attached to Dexter’s paws.

Last week, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green noted that recovery efforts in the worst-hit areas took time in part because the search dogs could only work for about 15 minutes at a time before their feet overheated.

Biden’s comment elicited smiles and laughs from the crowd, but quickly drew ire on social media, where the president is already catching heat for apparently making light of the devastating blazes after initially refusing to comment on the disaster for several days.

“Bro is sightseeing and trying to be comic relief for the tour. No sense of what has happened there at all,” a “homeschool dad” whose Twitter bio describes himself as a MAGA conservative wrote.

Another account blasted the hot ground remark as “poor taste,” while a third chimed in that the octogenarian reminded them of Mr. Burns from “The Simpsons.”

The Republican National Convention accused Biden of being “distracted” by the dog.

One user posted a graphic of the popular far-right rallying cry “F–k Joe Biden,” to which another replied “As a Lahaina resident, I second that.”

The historic enclave of Lahaina was decimated in the August 8 wildfires that killed at least 114 people and left over 800 still missing.

Also on Monday, Biden faced criticism for telling a room full of displaced Lahaina residents that he and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden “have a little sense” their grief and trauma due to a small kitchen fire at their Wilmington home almost 20 years ago.

“I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” he told the frustrated audience.

Biden has told several variations of the kitchen blaze story over the years.

On Monday, he described a dramatic scene in which first responders “ran into flames to save my wife and save my family. Not a joke.”

At the time of the incident, however, the local fire chief said the fire was “under control in 20 minutes.”

When Biden touched down in Maui earlier in the day, his motorcade was met with chants of “Go home, Joe!” from angry locals with signs that read “NO COMMENT” in reference to the commander in chief repeatedly declining to comment on the August 8 disaster.

A couple of protestors also waved 2024 campaign flags for Donald Trump.

“Any number of military aircraft, planes, and helicopters could have flown in here. To leave a town that was just devastated and shut down was just ridiculous. The runway wasn’t cratered,” western Maui resident Dennis Mullan, 58, told The Post of the federal government’s perceived lack of attention to the wildfire recovery.

Biden was also slammed for getting the full executive treatment – including an official podium and small table for his water bottle – during his brief remarks after landing.

Members of the president’s team were unimpressed by the backlash.

“He’s petting one of the dogs that’s working hard searching for remains so survivors who’ve lost loved ones can have closure,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates tweeted of the response to Biden’s interaction with Dexter.

“This criticism is classless and stupid,” he opined.

The Maui wildfires are the nation’s worst in over 100 years. As of Tuesday, many of the dead are feared to be children who were home after severe weather postponed the start date for local schools.