As you’ve probably heard by now, Kimberly Guilfoyle is no longer a member of the Trump administration, having been effectively fired from her post as U.S. ambassador to Greece by her ex-fiancée’s father, who told the press last week, “She wasn’t a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago.”
The harsh dismissal came on the heels of a series of damning stories about Guilfoyle’s conduct in Athens, which included promoting a Greek construction company whose top lobbyist was constantly by her side, accepting private jet rides and luxe hotel stays from a shipping magnate, and asking a Trump donor to pay her $100,000 credit-card bill in exchange for access. Katie Zacharia, in her one and only press briefing, announced that the White House was calling on Guilfoyle to resign, which she did, along with dismissing the “false” allegations against her.
But before Donald Trump gave Guilfoyle the heave-ho (while basically pretending not to know her), she apparently believed she could salvage things and keep her job — and given the amount of corruption that occurs within the Trump administration on a daily, nay, hourly basis, it’s not hard to see where she was coming from.
Guilfoyle’s failed attempts to stay employed included:
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Claiming damning texts were fake
According to The Wall Street Journal, which published texts between Guilfoyle and Trump donor Eric Deters — including one that read “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” plus instructions on how to directly wire the money to her American Express account — Guilfoyle claimed to White House officials that the messages were AI-generated. Unfortunately, no one believed her.
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Trying to get the negative stories taken down
The Journal also reported last week that earlier in the month, Guilfoyle “asked the State Department whether it could get an article in the Daily Mail … removed from the internet.” The article in question suggested she failed to pay a $1,768 bill for dinner and two cases of Champagne; according to a person familiar with the matter, when State officials asked if she could produce a receipt showing the story was false, she did not (or could not?) provide one.
Meanwhile, according to the Daily Mail, Guilfoyle “also told people close to her that she placed a direct call to [Rupert] Murdoch, the chairman emeritus at Fox Corporation and News Corp, regarding the media coverage in the Wall Street Journal articles” and though she “tried to get the stories removed … Murdoch did not sway to her demands.”
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Begging Trump’s pals for help
In addition to calling Murdoch, Guilfoyle reportedly asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack “for moral support and a personal pitch to President Donald Trump on her behalf.” While Barrack, a longtime ally of Trump, reportedly “said he would give her the support she needed,” Trump apparently ignored her calls. (It’s not clear how Hegseth responded to Guilfoyle’s appeal, but to be fair, he is extremely busy implementing his “no fat troops” in the military policy.)
Plus, per the Journal, “Guilfoyle called Matthew Boyle, Washington bureau chief of conservative media outlet Breitbart News, for help to lobby administration officials on her behalf.” That didn’t do the trick either.
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Acting natural, posting through it, keeping the faith
One day before she was fired, Guilfoyle posted a photo of herself with the Spanish ambassador to Greece, writing, “Feliz Fiesta Nacional!” On Instagram, she posted a birthday message to Lara Trump, Eric’s wife. According to the Journal, early on Tuesday — the day she got pushed out — Guilfoyle was “still telling associates that she would survive the scandal.”
