Biden was scheduled to leave Thursday afternoon for a three-day trip to meet with Pope Francis and Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday met his first great-grandchild — and then pledged full aid to California firefighters battling a series of disastrous wildfires just miles to the west. The back-to-back trips to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Santa Monica fire hall were unscheduled detours on one of final trips of Biden’s presidency.

President Biden insisted in an interview published Wednesday that he could have beaten President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election. In a sit down with USA Today, Biden claimed that polls suggested he could have won a second term if he had not dropped out of the race amid concerns about his age following a shaky summer debate with Trump.

CNN’s Harry Enten said President Biden’s recent comments about possibly securing a victory in the last election against President-elect Trump if he had not dropped out are “flat-out bonkers” in a video posted to the social platform X on Wednesday.

Hunter Biden was originally notified his house was likely "burned to the ground," President Biden said, but now "it appears it may still be standing."

The action will provide federal funding assets to people who have been impacted by the group of wildfires ravaging Los Angeles County.

Wildfires in California have broken out and escalated significantly since President Joe Biden touched down in Los Angeles on Monday, where he had initially been set to travel to the Coachella Valley and designate a new national monument.