SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President joe biden returned to his birthplace in Pennsylvania, making one last campaign stop Saturday for vice president Kamala Harris and again unleashed, offering the kind of unfiltered political sentiments that have become quite common in recent weeks.

Biden harshly criticized Harris’ rival, the former Republican president donald trumpand his supporters on political issues during a speech in Scranton, but later suggested that he had responded, literally, to fake “macho ones.”

“There is one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do. They want to have a giant tax cut for the rich,” Biden told the local chapter of the carpenters union. Then, apparently referencing people who support Trump, he added: “Now, I know some of you are tempted to think they’re sexist guys.”

“I’ll tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, we used to have some trouble breaking down the plot from time to time,” Biden continued. “These are the kind of guys you’d want to slap on the butt.”

During a rally Saturday night in North Carolina, Trump mocked Biden, asking the crowd, “I don’t even know, is he still around?”

Biden’s comment in Scranton drew laughter from the crowd. But it was another moment in which he went off-script politically, something that is now frequently happening to the president, even though he has played a decidedly limited role in promoting Harris, making few stops on the campaign trail to his former running mate.

Earlier this week, Biden caused a stir by responding to Racist comments at a recent Trump rally. made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

“The only trash I see floating around is his supporters,” Biden said in response.

White House press officials altered the official transcript of Biden’s comments, prompting objections from federal workers who transcribe what the president says for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained by The Associated Press.

And the reference to “garbage” followed Biden – during a recent stop at a campaign office in New Hampshire – Trump saying“We need to lock him up” before quickly amending his comments to note that he meant Democrats need to “lock him up politically.”

During Saturday’s remarks in Scranton, Biden also offered the traditional exhortations for attendees to vote, saying they should do so “for yourselves and your families, the people you grew up with, the people where you come from.”

“Don’t forget where you come from,” Biden thundered at one point to shouts and applause. “Don’t leave behind the people you grew up with.”

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Weissert reported from Washington.