Trending Now: Trump visits Graceland, wonders if he could have ‘taken’ Elvis ‘in a fight’ – Fans React

Key Points

• President Donald Trump wondered if he could have “taken” Elvis Presley “in a fight” during a visit to Graceland.

• Trump was the second sitting president to visit the Memphis estate, following George W. Bush in 2006.

• Graceland is the second-most visited house in the U.S.

President Donald Trump had an important question about Elvis Presley during his Graceland visit.

During a stop at Graceland while in Memphis, Tenn. to join the Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable, the president wondered if he would be able to take Elvis in a fight. While signing a replica of a guitar Elvis used for the 1973 “Aloha from Hawaii” concert, Trump learned that the King of Rock & Roll had multiple blackbelts in karate.

After asking if he indeed was “really good,” Trump wondered, “Could I have taken him in a fight?”

“I don’t know? You might,” one of the employees at Graceland said. “I think he would’ve been respectful enough to let you win,” another chimed in off-camera.

The president is clearly a fan of the “Hound Dog” singer. “He’s got so many, there’s very few I don’t like,” Trump also said of Presley’s songs during his visit. “He did nothing bad.”

Trump honored Elvis posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his first term in 2018. He had never crossed paths with the rock star, who died at Graceland in 1977 at 42.

Despite his admiration for the singer, the March 23 visit marked his first time visiting Graceland.

“I’ve never been here before, this is my first time, I’m a big fan of Elvis! Who isn’t?” Trump said.

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Trump’s trip to Graceland was the second made by a sitting president. President George W. Bush went to the famous home in 2006 with the prime minister of Japan.

Elvis, meanwhile, met President Richard Nixon in 1970 at the White House.

Elvis bought Graceland in 1959 for $102,500. After he died in 1977, he left the estate to his father, Vernon. After Vernon’s death two years later, the “Suspicious Minds” singer’s ex-wife Priscilla Presley was left as the trustee.

“After Elvis passed, it went on for about three years until the attorneys brought me in and said, ‘Priscilla, we’re going to have to sell Graceland. We have no money. We’re not bringing any money in,’ ” Priscilla told PEOPLE in 2025. “I just looked at them, and I said, ‘That’ll never happen, ever.’ Then, I left.”

Priscilla was introduced to Morgan Maxfield, who made his money constructing gas stations at freeway exits, through a mutual friend. The two worked together with the goal of opening up the estate to the public. Maxfield died in a plane crash before he could see the final product.

“Thank God I was able to fulfill what he had said about making sure I get the right people, the right attorneys, the right bank. It was a trip, but it was a trip worthwhile,” added Priscilla.

The house opened to the public in 1982. Elvis, along with his parents Vernon and Gladys Presley, his grandmother Minnie Mae Presley, his daughter Lisa Marie Presley, and his grandson Benjamin Keough are buried in Graceland’s Meditation Garden.

It is the second-most visited home in the United States with 650,000 visitors annually. As for the most-visited home in the country? The White House.

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