President Trump took visiting French President Macron to Mount Vernon, George Washington’s Virginia mansion, last year.

But Trump didn’t think much of the place.

Politico, offering previously unreported details of the visit, says that during a VIP guided tour of the property, “Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era,” but couldn’t understand why the first president didn’t name the place after himself.

“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

Trump’s tour guide was Mount Vernon president and CEO Doug Bradburn, Politico says, and he pointed out that “Washington did, after all, succeed in getting the nation’s capital named after him. Good point, Trump said with a laugh.”

Sources say Bradburn later described the experience as “truly bizarre.”

Politico says Bradburn has told several people that Macron and his wife “were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.”

Trump is famously disinterested in history, including presidential history, but — according to a source “familiar with the visit” — Trump did ask if Washington was “really rich.” (He really was, by 18th Century standards.)

“That is what Trump was really the most excited about,” the source said.

Trump “was less taken by Mount Vernon itself,” Politico says, which Washington expanded from a modest house to an 11,000 square foot mansion.

“The rooms, Trump said, were too small, the staircases too narrow, and he even spotted some unevenness in the floorboards, according to four sources briefed on his comments. He could have built the place better, he said, and for less money.”

Politico quotes “one person close to the White House” as saying that Trump’s base is not bothered by his lack of historical knowledge or perspective.

“His supporters don’t care, and if anything they enjoy the fact that the liberal snobs are upset” that he doesn’t know much history, this source said.

Yet Trump did find something to like at Mount Vernon, Politico notes: “the bed where Washington passed away from a throat infection in 1799.”

Trump looked it over and pronounced it “A good bed to die in.”