Like any good dad, Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson likes to check in on his college kids when he can. But unlike any regular dad, he comes with lots of baggage — oodles of security, even his own eight-car motorcade.
Johnson recently recalled visiting his son when he was a freshman in California. His trip was unannounced. As he pulled up with his police entourage, Johnson joked, “You hear lots of toilets flush, and lots of doors slam. Eventually somebody peeks out and says, ‘Oh, your dad is here, now I understand.'”
His daughter, at another California school, got him to leave his security down the street. But the entourage still drew eyes.
“When I hit the campus, Yik Yak lit up,” said Johnson, referring to the anonymous college app.
He recalled the traffic on the site:
“Hey. There are two Secret Service agents on the campus, what up?”
“Obama must be here … Malia is here.”
Eventually, said Johnson, who bears a similarity to the president, “somebody figured it out. ‘It’s the fake Obama.'”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
