Donald Trump has confessed to playing matchmaker for Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson, and even hosting the couple at his Mar-a-Lago home.

It may come as a surprise that the US president had a hand in their marriage, given that the pair first met when Lisa Marie was just seven years old and Michael was 16, after her father Elvis took her backstage to meet the Jackson 5.

While they stayed in touch over the years, it wasn’t until 1992 that they rekindled their friendship, speaking on the phone regularly.

Michael reportedly proposed during one of these calls, despite Lisa Marie already being married to Danny Keough.

She filed for divorce and eloped with Michael just 20 days later in 1994.

Trump claims to have spent time with the couple at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida towards the end of 1993.

He said they had separate bedrooms but were “holding hands and talking until the wee hours”.

The estate also served as part of their honeymoon, where they spent seven nights locked away in a luxury apartment.

The couple also spent time at Trump Tower in New York, where Michael had been living.

A source told the New York Post in 1994 that they would hold hands, kiss and cuddle, stare into each other’s eyes and look out at the stars together.

Despite their public displays of affection, rumours circulated about whether they were having s** or not.

During an awkward 1995 interview with Diane Sawyer, Lisa Marie exclaimed: “Do we have s**?”

before both she and Michael yelled: “Yes!

Yes!

Yes!”

Just a month later, Michael released a raunchy music video for You Are Not Alone, featuring the couple writhing on the floor in the n^de in a desert temple.

Their romance only lasted a year, and they separated in December 1995, with Lisa citing “irreconcilable differences”.

She has since named her marriage to Michael as the “biggest mistake of her life”, but the couple remained friends and attempted to reconcile through the late 90s.

Trump was particularly close with Michael, who would come over and play video games with his son Eric at their New York home.

Trump also claimed to know “the real story” of Jackson’s death, stating that the singer lost all self-esteem due to “bad, bad, bad surgery”.

He added that Michael was an “unbelievably talented guy” who lost his confidence and even his talent due to the surgeries done on him.

Trump’s close relationship with Michael has been documented in his son Donald Trump Jr’s book Triggered: How The Left Thrives On Hate And Wants To Silence Us, where he recounts how his father saw how much Michael enjoyed playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with them on Nintendo and told him he could take the game home.

While Donald Trump’s involvement in Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson’s relationship may come as a surprise, it is clear that the couple had a strong bond, despite their short-lived marriage.

Their public displays of affection may have sparked rumours, but their friendship endured until Michael’s untimely death in 2009.