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

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

The presidential motorcade stopped at 2446 N. Washington Avenue in Scranton’s Green Ridge neighborhood to visit the home he frequented over the years.

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

The 81-year-old president left Scranton at the age of 10 to head 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 stayed behind, as there was a Biden-Harris sign on the front lawn and a sign that read “Scranton loves Joe!”

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

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

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

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

During Tuesday’s visit to the home, the president left the home holding hands and surrounded by several neighborhood children.

Earlier, Biden slammed former President Donald Trump, who will again be his opponent in the general election, in a speech focused on economic policy and taxes.

Biden told voters in key swing state Pennsylvania “where you come from matters.”

And characterized Trump, his 2024 Republican rival, as a man who both squandered his own money and supported policies to help the wealthy, 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 the eyes of Scranton,” 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 a bad way,” he added, as the audience laughed.

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

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

While the home’s longtime owner died in December, a Biden-Harris sign remained outside, along with a sign identifying it as 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 the eyes of Scranton,” Biden said

Trump never voluntarily released his tax returns when he ran for office or became president 2020 New York Times report found that he paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Trump also paid no federal income taxes for ten of the previous fifteen years because he had lost so much money through his business dealings.

“He learned that there was something to telling people you’re fired,” Biden continued, using Trump’s famous Apprentice line.

“I think that’s how 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 paid your taxes. “You made sure that the announcement that you were fired was not entertainment, but a nightmare that people were worried about,” he said.

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

Biden looked over his words a bit, noting that “the only thing I knew about people like Trump looking down on us … they wouldn’t welcome us into our homes or into their clubs.”

Biden then made a few comments about Trump’s current financial problems.

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

“If Trump’s stock in Truth Social, his company, fell even further, he might do better under my tax plan than his. It is possible.’

Biden then repeated a joke he told during his closed-door fundraisers.

“You know, I’ve already gotten real results in a fiscally responsible way. But I know not everyone feels this,” he began. ‘The other day a defeated-looking man 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 said, laughing.