Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden, whose interactions with children have roiled social media over the years, suggested the children in the audience should speak to him about getting ice cream “because daddy owes you.”

Many social media users used the word “creepy” to describe Biden’s latest foray into addressing children.

“I want to say one thing to your children: I know some really great ice cream places around here, and daddy owes you,” Biden said. “Okay? So, talk to me afterwards.”

Creepy Uncle Joe Biden tells kids visiting White House he knows where to get ice cream: 'Daddy owes you' pic.twitter.com/LBccs26u2a

— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) August 17, 2023

Creepy Joe Biden tells children in the audience "I know some really great ice cream places around here, and daddy owes you ok? So talk to me afterwards." pic.twitter.com/ATHB22C7Nl

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 16, 2023

PEAK CRINGE: Biden tells kids "daddy owes you" ice cream…

Why do parents allow their children around this creep?? pic.twitter.com/PpXcOma9w0

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 16, 2023

Joe Biden:

“I wanna say one thing to your children: I know some really great ice cream places around here, and daddy owes you. Talk to me afterwards.”

Creepy Joe is back!pic.twitter.com/kOPVYA5mLo

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 16, 2023

Keep Biden away from your children!

BIDEN: "I wanna say one thing to your children. I know some really great ice cream places around here and daddy owes you, so talk to me afterwards."

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— Ryan Cunningham (@rycunni) August 16, 2023

In July, Biden was labeled “creepy” by his critics after he nibbled on a small child before he departed Finland.

In June, the White House released a video insisting that Americans’ children collectively belonged to the nation instead of their parents. The video sparked fierce responses from Elon Musk and a host of conservatives.

The video featured the White House lit up in rainbow colors as President Biden intoned, “These are our kids. These are our neighbors. Not somebody else’s kids. They’re all our kids.”

“Our children are the kite strings that hold our national ambitions aloft,” Biden continued. “It matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country. LGBTQ Americans, especially children: You’re loved, you’re heard, and this administration has your back.”

Musk, the SpaceX chief and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, had a succinct and harsh response to the Biden administration’s claim: “You are the government. They are NOT your kids.”

Biden had insisted that the nation’s children belong to someone other than their parents before. In April, honoring the White House’s Teacher of the Year, Biden quoted her saying, “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.”

“No such thing as someone else’s child,” Biden repeated. “Our nation’s children are all our children. As I often say, you teachers hold the kite strings that lift our national ambitions aloft. You really do.”

“By the way, I’d sit on the stand and it’d get hot. I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again,” Biden claimed in 2019.

This can’t be real life…

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— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019

Biden’s children-related policies have also earned criticism from the Right. In June 2023, Biden signed a “historic” executive order ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to increase the capacity of Americans (including children) who identified as transgender to obtain sex-change surgeries.

The order specifically charged HHS to “work with states to promote expanded access to gender-affirming care.” That was included under the section “safeguarding healthcare and preventing LGBTQI+ Youth Suicide.”

Maui’s Emergency Management Agency chief said that officials did not activate the island’s emergency sirens as wildfires blazed toward Lahaina because they feared the signal would cause residents to run toward the fire.

Chief Herman Andaya spoke during a press conference Wednesday and defended his decision not to use Maui’s emergency sirens, and instead send out alerts through text messages, radio, and TV. Andaya said the emergency sirens are usually used for tsunami warnings, which tell Hawaiians to seek higher ground, but that would’ve been toward the fire. 

“Had we sounded the siren that night, we’re afraid that people would have gotten mauka [toward the mountains] and if that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire,” the emergency chief said, according to The New York Post. 

“I should also note that there are no sirens mauka, or on the mountainside, where the fire was spreading down,” Andaya added. “So even if we sounded the siren, we would not have saved those people out there on the mountainside.”

During the press conference, a reporter cited mourning survivors who say that their family members could’ve survived if the emergency sirens had alerted them to the fast-moving fire. Hawaii Governor Josh Green, who was also at the press conference, defended Andaya after the reporter’s questions and said he also would’ve expected a tsunami if he heard the sirens. 

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said last week that her office will conduct a “comprehensive review” of the decisions made by officials before, during, and after the wildfires.

The death toll from the wildfires that raged last week has now hit 111 and includes children, but only 38% of the burn area has been searched and over 1,000 people are likely still missing, according to the governor. Video footage shows that some of the many fires that burned on the island likely started from downed power lines.  

Footage captured by a security camera at the Maui Bird Conservation Center last Monday showed the moment a power line sparked a blaze in the woods. The conservation center where the footage was taken from is in the small rural town of Makawao, just over 30 miles from where a massive fire turned much of the historic city of Lahaina to ash. 

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The Makawao fire was the first of multiple fires reported on the island last week. Prior to the fires, Maui faced strong winds from a hurricane hundreds of miles offshore. While the Makawao blaze didn’t reach Lahaina, it was one of the many fires sparked on the island last Monday and Tuesday that eventually reached the town of 13,000.