Biden is back in his rented $18MILLION Lake Tahoe mansion after his awkward Hawaii visit with nothing on his schedule, as Nevada and California contend with flood damage from tropical storm Hilary

President Joe Biden was back on vacation in Lake Tahoe on Tuesday after his long day trip to Maui, where he sympathized with wildfire victims by dredging up his own family tragedy and talking about a decades-old kitchen fire at his home.

The president continued his nine-day stay at the $18 million home of billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer after complaints that the rent could violate local housing law.

He left Monday morning to visit wildfire victims and communities affected by the historic blaze after facing backlash for his earlier “no comment” on the matter while vacationing at his Delaware beach house.

The White House did not list any public events on Biden’s Tuesday schedule, and his vacation rental is in a private community, keeping him out of sight. Pool reporters traveling with the president to Hawaii and back left the president’s motorcade early Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. in Nevada.

Biden’s visit to Hawaii was designed to demonstrate federal determination to rebuild the city after the fires that burned parts of historic Lahaina.

But he ended up making meandering comments talking about a kitchen fire he once experienced.

He also mangled the name of Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii (he called it “Schantz”), and again invoked the deaths of his wife Nelia and daughter Naomi in 1972.

He also made an odd “hot ground” joke while commenting on the chunky boots of a rescue dog named Dexter.

“That’s hot ground, man,” Biden said.

“Years ago, fifteen years ago now, when I was doing Meet The Press in Washington, it was a sunny Sunday and lightning struck a small lake outside our house at home — not a lake, but a pond,” Biden said, recalling the fire event.

He said the spark went through the wires and into the heating pipes and into the kitchen.

Long story short, I’m almost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat.

“But all kidding aside – I was watching the firefighters, the way they reacted.”

It’s an anecdote Biden often tells in times of tragedy. The fire service arrived on scene with a lot of smoke development, but was able to contain the flames.

“Fortunately, we caught it pretty early,” said George Lamborn, Chief of the Cranston Heights Fire Department at the time.

‘Within 20 minutes the fire was under control.’

Biden faced mounting pressure to visit Maui’s devastation as the death toll approached 114 and hundreds were still missing.

Now he’s vacationing in Nevada after Tropical Storm Hilary swept through Southern California, drenching parts of both states. It brought record-breaking rainfall and flooded normally parched locations like Death Valley. Thousands are without power.

In the state where Biden enjoys family time with first lady Jill Biden and son Hunter, officials fear “exceedingly rare” high flood risks in the Mojave Desert.