Former Disney Channel star is the White House's latest bigly hire

In case you were wondering about the kind of top-tier talent the Donald Trump White House is interested in bringing in to lead the country through a particularly tough time, don't worry because its latest hire is a... oh, uh... a former Disney Channel star.

Ok.

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Breaking his Fox News precedent, Trump is bringing Caroline Sunshine on as a press assistant in the White House. Sunshine is best known to people under the age of 20 as European exchange student Tinka Hessenheffer on Disney's Zendaya-and-Bella-Thorne-starring series Shake It Up, which ran from 2010 to 2013.

Feel free to make all the jokes you need to about a star from a show called Shake It Up becoming part of a White House that is often loves shaking things up.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

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So, yeah, it's a unique pick but quite out of left field as appears at first blush: Sunshine actually has a background in politics! It's a short background, yes, and mostly features the word "intern" but compared to some of the other hires Trump has made, her experience makes her a seasoned veteran.

Sunshine is something of a Young Republican stalwart, with a White House spokesperson bragging to CNN that she's interned for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), as well as for the College Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party.

Capping it all off, she's a known entity to the White House where she recently interned.

Fans of the show and people like myself who have watched a handful of clips on YouTube in the last hour or so will notice that, in the Shake It Upuniverse, Tinka and her brother Gunther seem to be of a German background, though their country is apparently never named on the show and thus they're just vaguely European.

But she's probably not Russia, which is good for Trump!

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Since the end of Shake It Up's run, Sunshine has cropped up in a few projects, including a small role in the intriguingly titled Lifetime movie Mommy I Didn't Do It, but she's mostly been focused on college and all that interning work.

And now she's off on a new adventure of several months in the White House before she takes her turn through the revolving door of people chased off by a tweet-happy, burn-it-all-down president.

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