Elvis Presley’s brother on if the King would have endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

During his quick life, the patriotic Elvis Presley took the workplace of the US President very critically.

When dwelling at Graceland, the King famously watched a number of TVs broadcasting completely different channels concurrently after listening to LBJ did it within the White House.

Concerned about hippy and drug tradition, he organised a gathering with Richard Nixon within the Oval Office to supply his assist. And shortly earlier than his premature dying at simply 42, he phoned up Jimmy Carter whereas excessive on barbiturates to request a presidential pardon for a neighborhood sheriff.

Had he not died in 1977, Elvis would have turned 90 in January and presumably would have been endorsing a presidential candidate. During his administration, Donald Trump posthumously awarded The King the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But what would Elvis have made from him and would he have endorsed him?

In an unique new interview from the very stage the place the star carried out each Las Vegas residency present, we requested his bodyguard, confidant and step-brother, David Stanley.

David, who now lives and works full-time on the Westgate Casino Hotel as an Elvis ambassador and historian, instructed us the King would have endorsed Trump’s insurance policies regardless of the previous president’s controversial character.

The 68-year-old mentioned: “Personally, the Elvis I knew would like Donald Trump’s action [but] might be a little freaked out about the way he depicts himself. But as far as conservative, America First, money in our pocket instead of somebody else’s, independent from the needs of oil, lack of war.. I mean, I think Elvis would have said, ‘Ditto!’

“He’d have thought [Trump] was crazy. He’d have gone to see him… ‘I want to talk to him!’ But I think people say, in America, ‘If you like Donald Trump, you’re an atheist, you’re Satan.’ I personally like Donald Trump. I think he’s out there, but the proof is in his pudding.

So, as a gun-toting white working-class Southerner, would Elvis have called himself a Republican?

David added: “He’s have probably been a Democrat when Kennedy was president. I don’t know, because he didn’t talk a whole lot about that. Now, when he met Nixon, he began to loosen up and talk about, ‘I’m a Republican because we keep more of our money, we’re more independent, we’re not as dependent on the country’.

“But he would have hated to see what’s going on today. Back then, Nixon and the opponent could argue, you know, nowadays [they’re like] ‘I hate you. You’re Hitler!’ or ‘You’re Communist!’ He wouldn’t have liked that at all.”

My Brother Elvis: An Evening with David Stanley, which features a tour of the backstage the place The King carried out, is held month-to-month at Westgate, Las Vegas, and tickets could be booked right here.