President Trump says his team is looking at firing Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece after reports she sought a $100,000 wire for her AmEx bill, and he is not happy.
Trump told reporters he and his administration are reviewing whether to remove Guilfoyle from the Athens post while he was on his way to Ohio. Asked directly about a possible firing, he did not dodge.
“Well, we're looking at it,” Trump said. “We're not happy.”
CBS News reported the remarks came as White House officials weighed a serious ethics cloud over the envoy Trump nominated and the Senate confirmed. Guilfoyle, the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., had already drawn internal heat over the same allegations.
The core claim is straightforward. Businessman Eric Deters, described as an associate of Guilfoyle, told reporters she asked him to wire $100,000 to cover her American Express bill in exchange for help with the Trump administration ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing. Deters said he never sent the money.
Deters gave CBS News screenshots of text messages he said he exchanged with Guilfoyle, including one that appeared to seek the wire. He left little doubt about how he read the exchange.
"no doubt it was pay-to-play"
He added a blunt follow-up about why the money never moved:
"Unfortunately for Kimberly Guilfoyle, at that time, at that moment in time, I didn't have $100,000 to spare to give to Kimberly Guilfoyle, or I actually would have been a dumb a** enough to do it."
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the texts. Guilfoyle’s lawyer disputed their authenticity to the Journal. Sources familiar with the matter told CBS that White House officials were informed the messages were authentic, and some aides voiced displeasure about her conduct.
Guilfoyle’s confirmation hearing was held in July 2025. The Senate confirmed her in September 2025. The alleged request, as Deters framed it, sat in the period before that hearing, the window when access and influence claims cut deepest.
The wire allegation did not stand alone. Over the same stretch of coverage, the Journal reported audio in which Guilfoyle boasted about Greek businessmen who paid for her travel and, in the reporting, encouraged foreign governments to do business with one of the tycoons. That track of the story, private jets, luxury stays, and the appearance of favor-trading, is the same arc readers saw when a recording caught Guilfoyle boasting of Greek tycoons covering lavish trips.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Greece last week while Guilfoyle remained highly visible in her post. Pressed on Deters’ claims, Rubio declined to engage a fresh report.
"I'm not going to comment on a story that literally posted a few hours ago."
Sources familiar with the matter said Guilfoyle knew Trump was debating her removal, was talking with her lawyer, and was seeking advice from administration aides.
A separate leaked tape track from Davos-era boasts about tycoon-funded travel kept the same ethics questions in the open, including coverage of a recording that captured Guilfoyle describing Greek tycoons bankrolling luxury travel. The pattern mattered more than any single headline: paid travel claims, a six-figure personal bill request, and a confirmation-era access pitch.
The Washington Examiner carried Trump’s “looking at it” and “not happy” comments as the White House openly reviewed her standing. That public signal from the president mattered. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president. When the president says the reading material is a problem, the personnel file is no longer theoretical.
Trump has long insisted his administration will not run on insider excuses. Personnel drama inside the broader Trump orbit, including separate family-lane stories such as Melania Trump facing fresh estrangement claims, always draws noise. The Guilfoyle file was different: it was about money, access, and an envoy’s conduct abroad.
Photo coverage from a White House reception marking Greek Independence Day on Thursday, March 26, 2026, showed Trump and Guilfoyle together in the East Room with Gristedes executive John Catsimatidis and his wife, Margo. The image captured the public face of the posting even as private messages and travel claims were already in reporters’ hands.
Pressure did not stay at the “looking at it” stage. Fox News reported that the White House formally asked Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece amid the cascade of misconduct claims, including the donor bill request, promotion of Greek company interests, and mistreatment of embassy staff. White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia said Guilfoyle had been a wonderful asset and wished her well, while confirming the ask.
Trump publicly put distance between the office and the headlines. He noted she had dated his son long ago, was not a member of his family, and had been doing a good job in the role, with a decisive caveat.
"She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading."
That sentence is the governing standard. Results in the post did not erase what the paper trail and the audio trail put in front of the president.
The New York Post detailed her resignation after Trump asked her to step down over the donor-payment revelations and related controversies. Trump again stressed he did not like what the reporting showed, even while acknowledging the personal history with his son. The White House press secretary confirmed she was asked to leave.
Readers who follow Trump-world personnel fights have seen parallel lanes of family and staff coverage, including pieces on how Melania Trump says she always tells Donald the truth when rumor cycles spike. This case turned on ambassadorial ethics, not palace gossip.
Just The News reported that the White House asked Guilfoyle to leave on Tuesday amid the scandal claims that she sought $100,000 to pay off a credit card bill. She confirmed on social media that her time as ambassador was ending, denied the allegations as false, and said she would defend her reputation.
Her statement mixed gratitude with a forward-looking loyalty line:
"While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end."
She also called the posting the honor of a lifetime and thanked Trump and Secretary Rubio.
Separate Trump-family media fights continue on their own track, including coverage of an ABC News restoration of a diluted Trump sons report. None of that changes the ambassador file. A confirmed envoy faced a documented allegation of soliciting a six-figure personal payment tied to administration help, plus travel and influence reporting that the president himself said his team did not like reading.
No criminal charges or formal ethics adjudication appear in the available record of this dispute. What does appear is a president who refused to shrug, a White House that asked for a resignation, and an ambassador who left while denying wrongdoing. That sequence is how accountable executives handle bad paper, not by protecting every ally, and not by pretending the clips do not exist.
Standards at the water’s edge only mean something when they apply to people who once sat inside the tent.