It’s really hard to mess up a Mediterranean vanity ambassadorship, but Kimberly Guilfoyle has managed to pull it off.
Guilfoyle – the former girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and a fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 campaign – announced that she is resigning from her post as US Ambassador to Greece. “I will be forever grateful to President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for entrusting me with the extraordinary privilege of representing the greatest country in the history of the world,” she wrote in a letter. long statement Announced his resignation.
“Although my time as Ambassador is coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end,” she said.
Shortly before the announcement, newly appointed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharias announced that Guilfoyle had been asked to resign from her post.
The decision comes amid a wave of reports of inappropriate conduct by Guilfoyle, including the bombshell report from wall street journal Allegations are that he solicited $100,000 from Trump donor Eric Detmers to pay off his American Express credit card debt before his Senate confirmation hearing in July 2025. magazine Show that Guilfoyle offered Deters $1 million in tax assistance and legal relief if confirmed for the ambassadorship.
“Dear, please I need you to do this for me today,” she wrote to daters, noting that “if you send the money to American Express the transfer will not show up anywhere.”
daters told magazine Guilfoyle promised that he would “ride or die for Trump, forever and ever”, but “she never lived up to anything.” When he informed Guilfoyle via text that he would not be giving her the money – assessing that it would probably upset his wife – she asked him if he would “stop putting all this stuff on paper” by discussing it over text.
It’s not like that. At the end of September, wall street journal informed On the strange relationship between Guilfoyle and 39-year-old lobbyist Christos Marafatsos. The construction company lobbyist, representing the Greek firm Ector Group, traveled frequently with Guilfoyle while she encouraged foreign contacts to work with the group. wall street journal is also informed Comments by Guilfoyle in Davos in January, in which he bragged about his ties to wealthy Greek businessmen, private jet travel and clout. “I’m going to make you a lot of money,” she reportedly told an American businessman, whose help she was requesting to secure a seat at a dinner hosted by Eric Trump.
In his resignation letter Guilfoyle rejected these reports. “These allegations are false and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity,” she wrote.
Trump on Monday told reporters The White House was “considering” removing Guilfoyle from office. “We’re not happy,” he said. Vice President J.D. Vance couple In a separate interview he said he did not like “selling access to another government official, certainly a high-level government official.”
On Tuesday, Trump maintained distance from Guilfoyle even after his resignation.
A reporter outside the White House asked the President, “On Guilfoyle, she was almost a member of your family. How surprised you were to learn of these allegations.”
Trump responded, “No, she was not a member of my family.” “I think she dated my son a long time ago.”
She may not have been entirely a family member, but Guilfoyle clearly learned a thing or two about self-dealing while dating Junior. After all, his departure would be little more than a blemish of accountability.