Blonde Trump aide is dark horse to be next press secretary... but her mascara-streaked meltdowns and hours locked in an office with 'TikTok Jack' mean White House staff are desperate for the president not to do it

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Bill Pulte, the powerful Trump aide, pushed her name to the President over dinner at Mar-a-Lago this past weekend, a source close to Trump told the Daily Mail.

By PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER and ROSS IBBETSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Published: 01:53 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 01:53 GMT, 11 November 2026

Donald Trump is being urged to make a former campaign aide his next press secretary, but ex-colleagues say she had a rocky time the last time she worked for him.

Caroline Sunshine broke down in tears on the President's 2024 campaign, vanished for hours and locked herself in her office, sometimes with her boyfriend, and was not invited to join the White House team after Trump won re-election, former colleagues have told the Daily Mail.

Now Sunshine, 31, has emerged as a dark horse to replace Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, who managed just five days in the job after succeeding Karoline Leavitt.

Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director and powerful Trump aide, pushed her name to the President over dinner at Mar-a-Lago this past weekend, a source close to Trump told the Daily Mail.

The dinner came days after Sunshine demanded Susie Wiles's resignation live on Fox News, barely 24 hours before the chief of staff dramatically quit.

Describing Sunshine's previous tenure working for the President, one former colleague said: 'Breakdowns in the bathroom, breakdowns in her office, kind of walking around the office with mascara running down her face, and something was obviously wrong, but no one really knew what or how or what was going on.'

The press secretary vacancy has sparked open lobbying at Mar-a-Lago, much of it through intermediaries, the source close to the president said.

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