United States: Donald Trump calls for the resignation of the United States ambassador to Greece

President Donald Trump has requested the resignation of the United States ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, weakened by a series of compromising revelations, the new White House spokesperson said on Tuesday. “We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” said spokesperson Katie Zacharia for her first White House press briefing since her appointment.

The day before, the Republican leader had confirmed that he was thinking about it, saying that “we are not happy”. This comes a few days after the visit of the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio to Athens during which he refused to comment in substance on the revelations of the American press. The Wall Street Journal published a series of very embarrassing articles for this former Fox News host who became a figure in the Trumpist “Make America Great Again” movement.

According to the daily, supporting screenshots, Kimberly Guilfoyle communicated for months with Eric Deters, a lawyer and former congressional candidate for the state of Kentucky, who was seeking intervention from the Trump administration in order to resolve his problems with the tax authorities. Since 2020, this wealthy Republican donor has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Trump family and in support of the camp of the winning candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

But Kimberly Guilfoyle's July 2025 request appears to be more personal, to regularize her credit card balance: "Honey, I need you to do this for me today," she wrote. “It won’t show if you transfer the money to American Express,” she would have advised on the Signal messaging service. Eric Deters did not follow up, assuring that this would jeopardize his marriage, according to the Wall Street Journal, which specifies that a lawyer for Ambassador Guilfoyle contested the authenticity of the messages published, without further details.