Jenna Bush Hager didn’t hold back when sharing what her father, former President George W. Bush, 79, really thinks about Today with Jenna & Friends.

Bush Hager, 43, admitted on Wednesday that she had asked Bush to appear on her show, but she said he refused, telling her, “‘I don’t watch your dumb show.’”

Today co-host Carson Daly kicked off the conversation by asking the former first daughter to “shine some light’ on Bush’s Monday appearance on Peyton and Eli Manning’s podcast, ManningCast.

“Was he fully aware of the exposure he was getting on that?” he asked.

Bush Hager explained, “he did it from the comfort of his own art studio” since the interview with the former NFL brothers was via Zoom.

But she added that she was “surprised as anyone to see him” on the show since “he said he wa

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