First Family Secret Service Code Names Revealed for the Trumps, Bidens, Obamas and More

All eyes are always on the First Family.

So, needless to say, safety is of the utmost importance, and it's up to the U.S. Secret Service to make sure the president, first lady and their kids get from here to there and back again without incident. 

For nearly 80 years, U.S. presidents and their families have been given nicknames by the agency, monikers that theoretically embody their personalities. While the Secret Service first began using codes in 1945 for security reasons when electronic communication couldn’t be encrypted, they're still used today for clarity. 

“Over time, the protectees have almost taken on the persona of the call sign that they had selected,” former Secret Service special agent Jonathan Wackrow told CNN in 2020. “With former President Barack Obama, ‘Renegade’ is a great example: How he went against the establishment in some of the things that he had done, and like Barbara Bush, whose call sign was ‘Tranquility,’ embodied the tranquility and peacefulness in a time of war.”

This year the agency theoretically doesn't have to come up with new names, President-elect Donald Trump already having a moniker from his first administration ahead of his swearing-in on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States—four years after he lost his 2020 re-election bid to now-outgoing President Joe Biden.