Scranton Joe tells his hometown why the U.S. should FIRE Mar-a-Lago Don: Biden condemns Trump’s Apprentice lines as he rips rival for inheriting wealth and tanking Truth Social stock
- President Joe Biden returned to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday
- “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 argued
- He ridiculed former President Donald Trump for his financial troubles and said Trump’s slogan, You’re Fired, was “not entertainment, it was a nightmare.”
President Joe Biden returned to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to tell workers why they should trust his economic policies over those of former President Donald Trump.
Biden told voters “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.”
President Joe Biden returned to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to tell workers why they should trust his economic policies over those of former President Donald Trump
“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
“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.
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
President Joe Biden visited his parents’ home on Tuesday after his speech in Scranton
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.