Caroline Sunshine attends a celebration for Teen Vogue on Oct. 2, 2015, in California. (mpi27/MediaPunch/IPX/AP)After the Internet learned that Caroline Sunshine, a former actor best known for her role on the Disney Channel show “Shake it Up,” had recently joined the White House as a press assistant, the reaction was unsurprisingly knee-jerk. The 22-year-old former White House intern is no stranger to politics or the swamp, a point the White House emphasized in a statement amid all the hullabaloo over her hiring. “Caroline Sunshine was a White House intern. So when two slots opened up in the White House press shop, Sunshine applied and got the job.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2018 18:21 UTC