Biden goes back to where he took baby steps: Scranton Joe, 81, visits the childhood home he left more than 70 years ago when he was just 10

President Joe Biden returned to his childhood home Tuesday during a campaign trip to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The presidential motorcade pulled up to 2446 N. Washington Avenue in Scranton’s Green Ridge neighborhood to visit the home he has visited periodically over the years.

Biden, his two brothers and his sister Valerie – who became a top political adviser – lived in the middle-class residence of his grandparents after his father fell on hard times.

The 81-year-old president left Scranton at age 10 to lead Delaware, the state he represented in the U.S. Senate for 36 years.

The three-story home’s longtime owner, Anne Kearns, died in December, but a Biden supporter remained as a Biden-Harris sign was on the front lawn as well as one that read ‘Scranton Loves Joe!’

The then-Democratic candidate visited the House on Election Day 2020 and wrote on an interior wall: ‘From this house to the White House by the grace of God.’

President Joe Biden (left) holds the hands of several neighborhood children as he leaves his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Tuesday

President Joe Biden walks with a group of children outside his childhood home Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania

President Joe Biden (second from right) poses for a photo with his siblings and mother. He lived in Scranton and spent several years in the N. Washington St. home owned by his grandparents until he was 10 years old.

During Tuesday’s trip to the house, the president left the residence holding hands and surrounded by several neighborhood children.

Earlier, Biden took a swipe at former President Donald Trump, who will be his re-election opponent, in a speech focusing on economic policy and taxes.

Biden told voters in key swing state Pennsylvania ‘where you come from matters’.

And characterized Trump, his Republican rival in 2024, as a man who both squandered his own money and supported policies to help the rich, not the working class.

‘When I look at the economy, I don’t see it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I see it through Scranton’s eyes,’ Biden said.

Trump, he said, ‘has learned very different lessons.’

“He learned that the best way to get rich is to inherit it,” the president said. “Not in a bad way,” he added as the crowd laughed.

“He learned that paying taxes is something that people who work for a living did, not him,” the president continued.

Children with signs greeted the presidential motorcade in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as President Joe Biden traveled to his childhood home in the key swing state

While the home’s longtime owner died in December, a Biden-Harris sign stood outside, along with a sign that said it was the president’s childhood home

‘When I look at the economy, I don’t see it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I see it through Scranton’s eyes,’ Biden said

Trump has never voluntarily released his tax returns when running for office or as president, although a New York Times report from 2020 found that he paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and in 2017. Trump also paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years due to losing so much money from his business connections.

“He learned that telling people ‘you’re fired’ was a laughing matter,” Biden continued, using Trump’s famous Apprentice line.

“I guess that’s the way you look at the world when you’re Park Avenue and Mar-a-Lago,” the president added.

Growing up in Scranton, Biden said, ‘nobody gave you anything.’

‘You have paid your taxes. You made sure that being told ‘you’re fired’ wasn’t entertainment, it was a nightmare that people cared about,” he said.

President Joe Biden’s motorcade passes under a sign for the President Biden Expressway in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Tuesday

Biden slightly glossed over his words, noting that “all I knew about the people like Trump who looked down on us … they wouldn’t welcome us into our homes or their clubs.”

Biden then made a few cracks about Trump’s current financial woes.

The president repeated his pledge to never raise taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 annually.

‘If Trump’s stock in Truth Social, his company, went any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his. Is it possible.’

Biden then repeated a joke he has told behind closed doors.

‘You know, I’ve already delivered real results in a financially responsible way. But I know that not everyone feels that way,’ he began. “The other day a guy who looks defeated came up to me and asked if I could help. He was drowning in debt.’

“I said, I’m sorry Donald, but I can’t help you,” the president laughed.