WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, the 45th president entertained the grandson of the 10th.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted a private reception for the White House Historical Association’s Presidential Sites Summit, which brought a number of presidential descendants into town.
Sources tell The Post that Trump gave a special shout-out to 93-year-old Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., whose grandfather, President John Tyler, was the nation’s 10th president. Press wasn’t invited to cover the event.
The elder Tyler was born in 1790, a year after President George Washington came into office. He was 63 when his son Lyon Tyler Sr. was born, with a second, much younger wife. Lyon Tyler Sr. also took a young second wife, which is how the grandson of a president who took office before the Civil War is still alive today.
Trump also surprised his guests by telling them they could go peek into the Oval Office.
“He invited everyone and the social aides escorted people in groups with music playing from military bands along the way,” one guest told The Post. “It was all very beautiful,” the source added, noting that “no photos” were allowed.
At the reception, first lady Melania Trump also spoke.
Earlier this week she planted an Eisenhower Oak sapling as part of the four-day conference. She was joined by Mary Jean Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Emory Gatchell, Jr., the fifth generation grandson of President James Monroe – on the White House’s South Lawn. She was replacing a tree blown down in March by a fierce D.C. wind storm.