Ex-Trump Spox Caroline Sunshine Slams President’s Election Fraud Speech for Surprising Reason

A former White House staffer critiqued President Donald Trump‘s election fraud speech — but not for the reason you might think.

Caroline Sunshine, a one-time Disney actress who worked as a Trump press aide in 2018, argued that the national address didn’t make for “great TV.”

Trump’s speech has been widely lambasted, with many critics slamming the president’s claims of foreign influence on America’s elections as “dangerous.”

Sunshine gave her critique of Trump’s Thursday night speech during an appearance on CNN’s The Story Is with Elex Michaelson:

CAROLINE SUNSHINE: Boring.

ELEX MICHAELSON: Boring? That’s your reaction. And as somebody who’s a communications aide, who’s helped President Trump prepare for events and craft what he’s going to say, why do you think it was boring and sort of what was your other main takeaways from this?

SUNSHINE: You know, I look at President Trump, I think the way that he sees himself, which is the producer in chief, you know, and he’s about creating great television.

And I think tonight he committed the cardinal sin of TV, which is don’t be boring. I think that —

MICHAELSON: What made it boring to you?

SUNSHINE: Well, I would have preferred, what would have been a great TV moment, was, ‘Good evening to the American people. I’ve just received word that we’ve been victorious in Iran. We’re going home.’

That would have been a great moment. But instead, there wasn’t really anything in the speech, I think, that created great TV. I think it’s great that we’re getting declassified information about foreign interference in an election.

However, I think that the real interference that occurred in the 2020 election, happened with, you know, big tech and some of the most powerful media apparatuses in our country, suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.

I’m thinking of people like Mark Zuckerberg at Meta who suppressed that story, and now he’s at, you know, the UFC fight.

And Meta gets to put their name on a ballroom. So I think if we want to see real election interference and we wanted to see really good TV, I would have loved to hear Mark Zuckerberg be called out instead of getting an invite to the people’s house.

Watch above via CNN.

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