Jenna Bush Hager joined the rest of America in watching President Trump’s inauguration Monday (Jan. 20), but most of her attention was focused on her father, former POTUS George W. Bush.
Scarlett Johansson, who is guest hosting on Today With Jenna & Friends this week, asked Bush Hager if the inauguration felt like a “family affair.”
“You know when you’re watching your kid’s holiday concert, you don’t really, if you’re honest, you don’t really care about the whole scene, you’re just zooming in on your kid?” she responded. “That’s a little bit about how we watch an inauguration in my family. I’m like, ‘What’s happening with my parents?’”
She added that her father “goes viral for basically anything” he does during public appearances. “I mean, he raised his eyebrows and went viral. He actually was very well behaved,” she said.
Johansson admitted she has a similar experience watching her husband Colin Jost do Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.
“We have a thing in our [family], even before the update, I’m sort of holding my breath,” she admitted. “I know everything that went into it and everyone else is enjoying it and I’m kind of like…”
“Like a stage mom,” Bush Hager added. She agreed that she feels “a little” like a stage mom when it comes to her parents, but not when it comes to her mother.
“Not for my mom, because she’s so lovely and I know she’ll be fine. But my dad, eight years ago there was a poncho— he couldn’t figure out a poncho and it became a thing,” she recalled, referring to a viral moment from President Trump’s previous inauguration where Bush struggled with his rain poncho.
She also pointed to a recent video of President Barack Obama and Bush that went viral. “He and President Obama had this exchange where somebody was like, ‘Are you gonna behave?’ to him, and you just hear President Obama go, ‘Nope!’” she told Johansson.
Johansson will be joining Bush Hager on Today With Jenna & Friends all week. More celebrity guest hosts are expected to be announced this week, so stay tuned!
Today with Jenna & Friends airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
