• Jenna Bush Hager shared the code names that Secret Service had for her and her twin sister Barbara Bush, while while chatting with her co-host on TODAY.
  • Jenna and Barbara Bush were nineteen when their father, former President George Due west. Bush, first entered the White House.

The world knows them as the Bush twins. But to the Secret Service who were tasked with protecting the showtime daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush were given code names—and interesting ones at that.

While talking to her TODAY co-host Willie Geist, while Hoda Kotb is reportedly out with the flu, Bush-league Hager revealed the nicknames she and her twin sister were assigned past Secret Service.

"It's so funny, and I don't know where this is coming from, but when you have Cloak-and-dagger Service, y'all have a code name, and my sister'due south code proper noun was 'Turquoise' because her eyes are actually beautiful and turquoise,'' Bush-league Hager said on TODAY.

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But the TV host was non a fan of her Surreptitious Service nickname at the time: "Twinkle, which some people got confused with Tinkle."

Geist attempted to make Bush Hager feel ameliorate about the code proper noun, saying, "Twinkle means yous're a star, you're calorie-free, you're joy. Twinkle, twinkle fiddling star." But the 38-year-old was having none of it: "I hateful, would you rather Turquoise or Twinkle?"

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Of course the Bush twins were non the but ones with Hugger-mugger Service nicknames. President Bush and former Showtime Lady Laura Bush, also had their ain code names—Trailblazer and Tempo, respectively—and nonetheless retain Secret Service protection.

The mom-of-three also revealed that her parents, the Bushes, have their ain adorable nicknames for each other. "My parents go by Bushy. Bushy one and Bushy two," she shared, making one affair clear. "Nobody calls me Bushy."

Despite feeling like she got the short end of the stick in terms of lawmaking names, Bush Hager said that she has graduated to bigger and amend nicknames, like the ane her husband Henry Hager affectionately calls her: "Shiny."

Luckily, Bush Hager, who received Secret Service protection during her twenties while her father George Due west. Bush was President, no longer needs to go by "Twinkle."

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