Earlier than Kimberly Guilfoyle, America’s new ambassador to Greece, presents her credentials to that nation’s president, she’ll fly into Athens aboard a billionaire’s jet and host a glitzy nightclub social gathering with Greek pop idol Konstantinos Argiros, the Day by day Mail has reported.
“We look like the banana republic right now,” a supply accustomed to Guilfoyle’s weekend plans instructed the Day by day Mail. “You know Russia and China are looking at us like fools.”
The Day by day Mail obtained leaked plans for the social gathering, organized on the Kentro Athinon, welcoming Guilfoyle to her job in Greece. The invitation asks attendees to RSVP to the U.S. Embassy in Athens. The Day by day Mail additionally reported that Guilfoyle, Argiros and Vassilatos have been evidently planning “a whirlwind of glamorous events, from VIP parties at a club to sun-soaked yacht trips in the Aegean on Vassilatos’s yacht.”
Not talked about within the Day by day Mail story is whether or not there are considerations about public backlash in america in opposition to Guilfoyle’s lavish social gathering plans at this explicit second. The federal government stays shut down and tens of millions of low-income People have been going through delays in receiving meals support funds from the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP) this week. On Friday, two federal judges stated the Trump administration should proceed to fund SNAP, utilizing contingency funds till the federal government re-opens.
Guilfoyle’s new job as ambassador is ready to formally start subsequent Tuesday when she is going to current her credentials to Greek President Konstantinos Tasoulas, the Day by day Mail reported. Her debut engagement is ready for subsequent Thursday and Friday, when she is going to host a reception on the Zappeion, a ceremonial constructing subsequent to the Backyard of Athens, together with the Transatlantic Vitality Cooperation Discussion board. Different anticipated attendees embrace US Vitality Secretary Chris Wright and Greece’s Vitality Minister Stavros Papastavrou.
Trump nominated Guilfoyle to be ambassador to Greece final December, a number of weeks after he received the presidency for the second time. Guilfoyle had turn into a prime fundraiser and high-profile supporter of Trump after she started relationship his oldest son in 2018. Up till the 2024 election, Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. formally remained engaged, regardless of experiences within the Day by day Mail and different shops that he had “blindsided” her by starting a “dalliance” with one other girl, Palm Seaside socialite Bettina Anderson.
By early December, it was reported that Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle had parted methods and that Trump Jr. and Anderson have been a pair. After Trump nominated Guilfoyle to be ambassador to Greece, a supply instructed Folks journal that he supplied her the job as a result of Anderson wished Guilfoyle “out of the area.” That’s, dispatched throughout the Atlantic.
Nonetheless, it’s additionally doubtless that Trump selected to make Guilfoyle an envoy as a reward for her loyalty and repair to his trigger, and he most likely appreciated that she didn’t make a fuss about breaking apart together with his son. Certainly, sources near the Trump household insisted that Guilfoyle’s cut up from Trump Jr. was “amicable.”
The Day by day Mail additionally reported this week that Guilfoyle initially lobbied to be named the ambassador to the Vatican earlier than settling for her submit in Greece. Trump shut down the concept of the Vatican instantly, with one supply describing it as “a non-starter.” Greece, most likely finest recognized to People as “a sun-soaked vacation destination steeped in ancient history and democracy,” was seen as a compromise, the Day by day Mail additionally reported.
