President Donald Trump took a detour to Graceland on Monday. Trump took the side trip to Elvis Presley’s home while in Memphis for an event on crime.

Before Trump visited Graceland on Monday, it had been 20 years since a sitting U.S. president toured the famous home of the King of Rock and Roll. The last visit occurred in June 2006 when President George W.

Elvis Presley's Graceland estate plays a surprising role in Hulu’s "Paradise," blending Memphis history with a post-apocalypse future.

On March 19, 1957 a 22-year-old Elvis Presley put down $1,000 to buy the 13.8 acre estate he would name Graceland.

I’m going to see Graceland after this, I think. Is that right?” Mr Trump said during a meeting of the Memphis Safe Task Force. “I love Elvis.” Mr Trump’s side trip to a top tourist attraction — which has at times ranked as the second most-visited private home in the US after the White House — is a stark contrast to the domestic and international issues on which the president gave updates at the beginning of his remarks in Memphis.