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Trump visits Graceland, wonders if he could take Elvis Presley in a fight

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Call it a blue-suede victory lap.

Fresh off a crime crackdown briefing in Memphis, President Donald Trump took a detour straight into American legend — the hallowed halls of Graceland, home of the one and only Elvis Presley.

“This is a part of history,” Trump said as he soaked in the King’s estate. “Elvis is history and I think it was great.”

The visit came after a roundtable with the Memphis Safe Task Force, where Trump touted a dramatic drop in violent crime — “way, way down” over just five months. Naturally, he couldn’t resist tying it all back to the King.

“Elvis would be very happy about that, right? I love Elvis … you know they all say, did you know Elvis. So, I knew Frank Sinatra, I knew most of ’em. Unfortunately, I never met Elvis — and that would be one I would’ve like a lot.”

Classic Trump: part stats, part showbiz nostalgia.

Inside Graceland, the president got the VIP treatment — a private walk through Presley’s famously over-the-top digs, from military memorabilia to gold-plated oddities. Trump, who’s long blasted Elvis tunes at rallies, didn’t hold back the admiration.

“I think his music is incredible. I understood his life — his life was complicated … but he was terrific, and he was born with a voice that he never lost.”

Notably, Trump’s own 2018 decision to award Presley the Presidential Medal of Freedom still ruffles feathers among the usual critics, who tried — and failed — to turn even Elvis into a culture war flashpoint. But inside Graceland, the vibe was pure Americana, not woke revisionism.

Things took a more Trumpian turn in the legendary Jungle Room. After being handed a replica of Elvis’s guitar from the 1973 “Aloha from Hawaii” concert, Trump called it a “great honor” — then carefully tested the marker before signing it. No smudges on this legacy piece.

Learning that Presley was a black belt in karate, Trump quipped: “Could I have taken him in a fight?”

As Trump wrapped up his visit and quite literally “left the building,” he summed it up in his signature style: “It was really nice … it’s beyond music. So, I found it very interesting.”

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