Tom Hanks has been inside the White House more times than Donal Trump at this point. The man is a frequent visitor, guest, and lover of history — he’s our guy!

But Tom recently shared one of his best memories of the White House during WNYC’s “Sooo Many White Guys” podcast. It was during George W. Bush’s presidency and he and his wife Rita Wilson were in town for the dedication of the National World War II Memorial in 2004 and his family were given a personal tour.

“I hear my wife say in the hallway, ‘Well hello, Mr. President!’ and I heard George W. Bush say, ‘Well hi, who are you?’” Tom shared. “My wife said ‘I’m Rita Hanks, Tom’s wife.’ And she only busts the ‘Hanks’ version of her name when convenient. He said, ‘Well, of course, how are you?’ They started talking … so we get ushered back out into the main lobby with the president, and there he is, and he’s wearing his gym clothes!”

But that was just the beginning:

“We’re going to the Rose Garden to go into the Oval Office, and there was a dead black bird laying in the grass,” Hanks remembered. “And I swear to God, he picks up the bird with his bare hands, and says ‘That’s a shame. We get these all the time in the ranch!’ and threw the black bird into the bushes to get it out of sight and goes, ‘Ah, the crew’ll pick that up.’ The Hanks family has been dining out on that story for about a thousand years.”

Another part of Tom’s American charitable contributions, other than his films of course, is to send the White House press corps a new coffee maker, seeing as how the coffee the get in the press room ain’t so nice…

“It’s a longstanding joke,” he continued. “I was on a tour of it with my kids. I went back to the press room, and I saw their coffee area, this sad little old Mr. Coffee, drip, percolator kind of thing, and I said, ‘Is this the only coffee machine you have here?’ And they said, ‘yes,’ so I said, ‘I’m going to send you a decent coffee machine.’” — and he did: a $2,200 espresso machine!

“The difference between this coffee machine and those previous coffee machines is two words: Social media. I gave those coffee machines before Instagram, email and Twitter and what have you, so I got a lot of credit just for making sure the White House press corps still had a source of the legal, addictive stimulant that is coffee.”

Now that’s how you treat the press, Mr. President!