Amid the massive Signalgate chat leak controversy, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer Rauchet has found herself at the receiving end. It has now come to the fore that the staffers at the Pentagon have given her a brutal and shocking nickname due to her excessive involvement in Hegseth’s job.

Employees at the Pentagon have reportedly given Jennifer Rauchet, the wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a brutal nickname. According to Daily Mail, the Defense Department staff have their own nickname for their boss’s wife: ‘Yoko Ono’ and this is because she is frequently seen with her husband while he attempts to push US President Donald Trump’s agenda.

It was reported by the Daily Mail that several of her employees have taken to calling her “Yoko Ono” behind her back.Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth has recently found herself under scrutiny over her informal involvement in her embattled husband’s job overseeing the nearly three million-strong United States military.

Pete Hegseth’s wife faces heat

The name comes as Rauchet’s frequent appearances at the Pentagon have drawn criticism from several staffers after the Wall Street Journal reported that she attended sensitive meetings, including one with his British counterpart, John Healey. It was also reported by two sources that Rauchet attended a meeting between her husband and his foreign counterparts at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Heseth’s wife is causing concern among federal officials for her reportedly near-constant presence with her husband as he deals with sensitive military plans and has inappropriately brought her along to meetings with lawmakers and at least one foreign official, according to CNN. Ruachet has applied for security clearance, but the White House has refused to say if it was granted, CNN noted.