Trump says he is considering firing ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle

President Donald Trump said Monday he is considering firing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after a donor accused her of seeking $100,000 in exchange for help accessing senior administration officials.

“We’re looking at it,” Trump told reporters when asked whether he might dismiss Guilfoyle. “We’re not happy.”

His comments marked a shift from Friday, when he said he had heard only a little about the allegations. “I don’t know too much, but she was always very nice,” Trump said, according to NBC News.

Eric Deters, a businessman and Trump donor, has accused Guilfoyle of asking him to pay a $100,000 American Express bill in the days before her July 2025 Senate confirmation hearing. Deters told NBC News she offered to help him reach senior administration officials in return. “She was so desperate for that $100,000. It was a quid pro quo,” he said.

“She said I could ask her for anything and everything in Trump world. There was no request too big,” Deters told NBC News. He said he did not give her the money.

Deters also provided CBS News with screenshots of text messages between him and Guilfoyle, including one in which she appeared to ask him to wire money. “I have no doubt it was pay-to-play,” he told CBS News. He added that he did not have $100,000 to spare at the time and said he otherwise might have paid it.

Guilfoyle’s lawyer disputed the authenticity of the texts to The Wall Street Journal, according to CBS News. Sources familiar with the matter told CBS News that White House officials had been informed the messages were authentic and that some Trump aides were displeased by Guilfoyle’s actions.

Guilfoyle’s attorneys, David Schwartz and Jesse Binnall, told The Associated Press that Deters owed her the money for speaking engagements. Deters denies that account. The attorneys had not responded to NBC News requests for comment on the allegations or Trump’s Monday remarks, the network reported.

The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating Guilfoyle and the U.S. Embassy in Greece, two people familiar with the decision told NBC News last week. The Wall Street Journal has also reported allegations that Guilfoyle boasted about ties to Greek tycoons whom she said paid for luxury trips. NBC News said it had not independently confirmed that report.

Addressing the travel allegations in a statement to The Associated Press, Guilfoyle’s attorneys said she “sought, obtained and followed State Department guidance and followed the Department’s travel regulations.”

Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., was nominated by Trump and confirmed as ambassador in September 2025. She appeared prominently during Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Greece last week. Asked then about Deters’ allegations, Rubio said: “I’m not going to comment on a story that literally posted a few hours ago.”