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 birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania 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 backed 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 the eyes of Scranton,' Biden said. 

Trump, he said, 'learned very different lessons.' 

President Joe Biden returned to his birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania Tuesday to tell workers why they should trust his economic policies over those of former President Donald Trump 

'He learned the best way to get rich is inherit it,' the president said. 'Not a bad way,' he added, as audience members laughed. 

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

Trump has never voluntarily released his tax returns when running for office or as president, though 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 tax for 10 of the previous 15 years due to losing so much money from his business dealings. 

'He learned that telling people "you're fired" was something to laugh about,' Biden continued, using Trump's famous Apprentice line. 

'I guess 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 handed you anything.' 

'You paid your taxes. You made sure that being told "you're fired" wasn't entertainment it was a nightmare that people worried about,' he said. 

'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

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

President Joe Biden paid a visit to his childhood home after his speech in Scranton Tuesday

Rolling over his words a bit, Biden noted that 'all I knew about the people like Trump who looked down on us ... they wouldn't welcome us in our homes or their clubs.' 

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

The president reiterated his promise never to hike taxes for Americans making less than $400,000 annually. 

'If Trump's stock in the Truth Social, his company, dropped any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his. It's possible.'

Biden then repeated a joke he's been telling at his closed-door fundraisers.

'You know, I've already been delivering real results in a fiscally responsible way. But I know not everyone's feeling it,' he began. 'Just the other day a defeated looking guy 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 to laughs.