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 went back 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 pay a visit to the home where he's visited periodically over the years. 

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

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

The longtime owner of the three-story house, Anne Kearns, passed away 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 nominee visited the house on Election Day of 2020 and scrawled on an interior wall, 'From this house to the White House with the grace of God.' 

President Joe Biden is photographed outside his childhood home Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania 

President Joe Biden (left) holds the hands of several neighborhood kids as he departs his childhood residence Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania 

President Joe Biden walks with a group of kids 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, spending several years living in the N. Washington St. home owned by his maternal grandparents, until age 10 

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

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

Biden told voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania '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.' 

'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. 

Biden holds hands with children in front of the home in Scranton where he lived until he was 10

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

While the longtime owner of the home died in December a Biden-Harris sign remained outside along with a sign saying 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 the eyes of Scranton,' Biden said

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. 

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