It wasn’t just funny nicknames for Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. The nicknames extended to the older generation as well. On a “Today” show appearance in 2012 while Jenna Bush Hager was pregnant with her first baby and her parents’ first grandchild, she referred to George W. Bush as “Popsicle.” As the two talked about what it was that he wanted his grandchildren to call him, George W. jokingly said they wanted them to call him, “sir.” He almost got a version of that nickname to catch on, in a way — years later, he revealed that his grandkids call him “el jefe,” which means “the boss” in Spanish.
Laura Bush is not called anything so basic as “Grandma” or “Granny.” Instead, she’s called “Mimi Maxwell.” It’s a name that Jenna proposed when she was first pregnant, and it seems as though it stuck. It’s unclear where the name originated, but it’s hard not to love its uniqueness.
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