The backlash against the first-term mayor was swift — with many on social media blasting her as an embarrassment.
“FIRE THIS DUMBASS NOW,” one user raged on X, saying Bass was “going all Joe Biden, not knowing what she’s saying!”
“Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the Fire Department budget by millions of dollars madame mayor?” Sky News reporter David Blevins asked as Bass was getting off her flight.
Her redundant gaffe came as footage was going viral on social media of a stone-faced Bass refusing to answer questions when she finally returned to the US on Wednesday to find her city up in flames.
“This firestorm is the big one,” she added at one point.
Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been ripped as the most “incompetent politician in America” after she managed to botch a fire emergency information website address by pointlessly telling locals to just visit “URL” — even while admitting the deadly firestorm is “the big one.”
She addressed her absence during the late afternoon press conference, claiming she did her best to return and help.
“If you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL,” the flailing mayor said as she read from a script.
Bass made the blunder as she stumbled her way through a press conference Wednesday soon after returning to the US, having already faced scorching criticism for traveling to Ghana as the wildfires ravaged her city and for slashing the fire department’s budget.