President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign communications director, Caroline Sunshine, ripped the White House “information ecosystem,” which she claims is not warning him that his MAGA base is leaving because of his war in Iran.
“I think that there’s an information ecosystem around the president right now that is designed to keep opinions like mine out or demonize supporters like me as disloyal and not relevant to hear from. And that needs to change,” Sunshine told CNN’s Elex Michaelson early Saturday morning.
Despite volatile disruptions in global markets and rising fuel prices caused by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, neither Trump nor Iran has shown signs of the conflict slowing down.
“The president should go back to taking his own advice,” Sunshine told Michaelson.
“He was very clear, no new wars, and this is just a case of, ‘This isn’t what I ordered.’ It’s like being at a restaurant, and you go, ‘Oh, yeah, this isn’t what I ordered,’” she added. “Like, sorry. I ordered no new wars. Not ‘no new wars except the war with Iran,’ not ‘no new wars, except the war that everybody in Washington, D.C., has wanted for 30 years.’ I ordered no new wars.”
She also said Trump is not getting the “full picture of where his base is at.”
“I am the president’s base, and the base is leaving,” Sunshine warned.
Despite Sunshine’s stance, a poll taken by NBC News in early March shows that at least 90% of self-identified MAGA-aligned Republicans support Trump’s war.
“Who’s MAGA? Because what I’m hearing from everyone is, I’m a ‘three-time Trump voter, and I’m not MAGA anymore. I’m not. I’m now non-MAGA,’” Sunshine said. “MAGA, the base is leaving because they don’t agree with this conflict, and they don’t believe that this is what they voted for and they’re correct.”
