{"id":386766,"date":"2026-07-26T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:43:17","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-makes-stop-at-el-arroyo-after-austin-arrest-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386766\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager makes stop at El Arroyo after Austin arrest joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush Hager took to Instagram on Friday, sharing a slideshow of herself\u00a0posed in front of the Austin Tex-Mex establishment’s marquee, which read, “It’s National Tequila Day. Party like you’re the president’s daughter.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tongue-in-cheek phrase is a nod to Bush Hager’s arrest\u00a025 years ago\u00a0for attempting to order a margarita using another woman’s identification card.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Bush Hager was doubling down on not one but two jokes after mistaking where the night-turned-national-news event occurred last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The “Today” co-host did her own version of a viral social media trend in which people pretend to be interviewed for a dramatic documentary, writing that she was preparing for a hypothetical Netflix film about “that one time at El Arroyo when I was 19.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The comedic reference got one detail wrong: The incident\u00a0happened at the original Chuy’s on Barton Springs Road in May 2001, not El Arroyo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was not the first time El Arroyo embraced Bush Hager’s arrest. During a 2024 visit to Austin with former “Today” co-host Hoda Kotb, the restaurant displayed a message on its marquee referencing the incident.<\/p>\n

Bush Hager, who was then a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Texas, tried to order a margarita using another woman’s ID. Her twin sister, Barbara Bush, was also cited for underage alcohol possession after restaurant employees called Austin police.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chuy’s incident came about five weeks after Bush Hager was cited during an underage drinking enforcement operation at a Sixth Street bar, where undercover officers found her drinking beer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The back-to-back cases drew national attention as the media closely trailed the then-president’s twin daughters during the first several months of the George W. Bush administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bush Hager pleaded no contest in both cases, and a judge ordered her to complete community service, attend alcohol education classes and a\u00a0victim-impact panel. She also had to pay court costs and temporarily surrender her driver’s license.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bush Hager took to Instagram on Friday, sharing a slideshow of herself\u00a0posed in front of the Austin Tex-Mex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-386766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}