Jenna Bush Hager Ribs ‘Bewildered’ Dad With Beyoncé Meme

Jenna Bush Hager noticed an uncanny parallel between Beyoncé at Sunday’s Grammy Awards and her dad George W. Bush at Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

The Today host was joined by guest host and Saturday Night Live star Ego Nwodim on Monday, where they discussed the meme-ification of Beyoncé’s shocked look following her win for Best Country album. The Cowboy Carter singer’s reaction sparked a wave of memes online, just like a certain former president has been known to do.

“I was happy because my dad also made some facial expressions at the inauguration,” Bush Hager noted.

“He didn’t do anything and [Beyoncé] didn’t do anything, they just looked surprised or delighted,” she continued, bringing up a side by side of Bush and Beyoncé, with the similar look of “bewilderment,” as Nwodim called it.

Bush Hager has long been aware of her father’s ability to “go viral for basically anything,” she’d said previously on Today. Even though she felt like a proud “stage mom” watching her father at the inauguration last month since he was so “well behaved” as to not draw too much attention, she noted he still didn’t escape internet notoriety.

“I mean, he raised his eyebrows and went viral,” she joked.

At Trump’s previous inauguration, Bush went viral for struggling with his rain poncho, as his TV-host daughter also mentioned during her segment. “Eight years ago there was a poncho—he couldn’t figure out a poncho and it became a thing,” she said, explaining that she didn’t have to worry over her mother Laura Bush, as she’s “so lovely” in public.

But while Beyoncé, who made Grammy history by becoming the first Black artist to win Best Country Album before also winning Album of the Year for the first time, and George W. Bush may have been “bewildered for different reasons,” as Bush Hager put it, they are apparently equally capable of going viral.