{"id":559947,"date":"2026-03-23T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:37:10","slug":"trump-postpones-iran-strikes-on-nuclear-power-plants-trump-says-talks-over-strait-of-hormuz-reopening-progressing-mohammad-bagher-qalibaf-labels-talks-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559947\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones Iran strikes on nuclear power plants; Trump says talks over Strait of Hormuz reopening progressing; Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf labels talks \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stately home, with its stone facade and white columned entrance, is just a few kilometres from the site of the meeting, also attended by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney-General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump tours Graceland.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/01368149d0d48492ee8f8722b0c4d9dfe5f59c84.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>US President Donald Trump tours Graceland.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s side trip to a top tourist attraction \u2013 which has at times ranked as the second most-visited private home in the US after the White House. It opened as a museum and tourist attraction in 1982 as a tribute to Presley, the singer and actor who died in 1977 at age 42.<\/p>\n<p>Graceland temporarily closed down so Trump could take a brief private tour, including examining an Army helmet scrawled with Presley\u2019s initials. He also scoped out a bread warmer in the kitchen and traipsed through the den known as \u201cthe Jungle Room\u201d because of its green shag carpet, Polynesian-style furniture and indoor rock waterfall.<\/p>\n<p>Trump marvelled at Presley\u2019s gold-plated Social Security card, suggesting authorities might want to bring back that style of card. Later, peering at Presley\u2019s gold phone, the president offered, \u201cI would like to hear some of those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump holds up replica of an Elvis Presley guitar after signing it.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/36bf6a0a76e1a576c06b9f1df34d754a000d2c97.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Donald Trump holds up replica of an Elvis Presley guitar after signing it.AP<\/p>\n<p>He was handed a guitar to sign by a Graceland guide who pulled on gloves to handle special objects. The instrument was a replica of one used by Presley during his famous Aloha From Hawaii concert in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>After being told that Elvis had not actually played the guitar he\u2019d signed, Trump grew reflective. \u201cCould I have taken him in a fight?\u201d he asked of Elvis, whom he lamented having never met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho else would be more famous than Elvis?\u201d he offered with a grin, when it was suggested that visitors could one day come to glimpse his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stately home, with its stone facade and white columned entrance, is just a few kilometres from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-559947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}