Jenna Bush Hager is exposing the household group chat.
The morning present host revealed that the textual content chain has been going off continuous since her dad, George W. Bush, attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday.
“You all already guessed what moment has been blowing up our family group chat,” Bush Hager, 43, stated on “Today” Tuesday. “Yeah, my dad went viral for these cutaway shots during yesterday’s broadcast. The internet’s obsessed with this little smile and goofy expression.”
Trump was sworn in on the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. Throughout the ceremony, the forty third president displayed a collection of foolish reactions. At one level, Bush, 78, was seen containing his laughter, elevating his eyebrows and winking.
Bush Hager assumes her dad “must have made eye contact with somebody,” and teased he isn’t the one one who ought to be held accountable for his conduct.
“You guys, you can’t just blame him because it looks like my dad was also seated next to a bad influence. Take a look at what former President Barack Obama had to say,” she stated earlier than a clip of the forty fourth president flashed on display screen.
“I just love how when they’re together, they become unusual friends,” she added.
Lip reader Jackie Gonzalez made a now-viral video revealing what she believed the 2 former presidents had been discussing in a single trade.
In keeping with Gonzalez, Obama greets Bush and tells him, “Good to see you. How can we stop what’s happening?”
Bush Hager, who was 20 when her father was first elected as Commander in Chief, went on to disclose what it’s like to observe her dad and mom attend presidential elections.
“You know when you’re watching your kid’s holiday concert or whatever and — if you’re honest — you don’t really care about the whole scene. You’re just zooming in right on your kid,” she stated.
“That’s a little bit about how we watch an inauguration in my family. I’m like, ‘What’s happening with the parents,’” Bush Hager defined on “Jenna & Friends.”
“He goes viral for basically anything. He didn’t do anything,” she stated. “I mean, that’s what his face looks like.”
Regardless of Obama’s quip, she felt that her father was “very well-behaved.”
Bush and former first woman Laura Bush had been additionally seated close to Invoice and Hillary Clinton.
After the inauguration, reporters requested Obama if he behaved in the course of the occasion. “Just barely,” Obama jokingly instructed a Washington Publish reporter.
Earlier within the day, the reporter shared one other clip of Obama and the Bushes. A staffer requested George if he was “going to behave” because the trio entered the rotunda. Obama rapidly answered for him, providing up a fast “nope.”
“They’re pals,” Bush Hager instructed her NBC viewers Tuesday. “I think it shows that even in divisive times, we have so much more that unites us. So let’s just pray for that.”
