Department of Defense assistant Dana White tweeted Saturday that her boss, Defense Secretary James Mattis, had “joined staff in serving breakfast” at the White House on Friday morning.

The tweet included a picture of Mattis wearing a suit and tie standing in the “back of the house” with kitchen staff.

#SecDef Mattis joined staff in serving breakfast at the @WhiteHouse mess yesterday. pic.twitter.com/tyn5JsYgVS — Dana W. White – DoD (@ChiefPentSpox) May 26, 2018

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders retweeted White’s tweet with the caption that she was one of the “lucky ones” to see Mattis helping out, adding that the defense secretary had “assured me they hadn’t let him help cook.”

“Such a great surprise to start the morning with Sec. Mattis,” Sanders wrote.

I was one of the lucky ones to see him yesterday morning! He assured me they hadn’t let him help cook. Such a great surprise to start the morning with Sec. Mattis. https://t.co/19VG7uZEpx — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) May 26, 2018

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