Trump names Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece
- Guilfoyle once worked in the San Francisco district attorney’s office with future Vice President Kamala Harris.
- The former prosecutor announced her engagement to Donald Trump Jr. in 2022, though questions surfaced Tuesday about the couple’s relationship status.
Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated to serve as United States ambassador to Greece, President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday.
Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host now deeply enmeshed in the broader Trump orbit, was married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco. The former prosecutor announced her engagement to Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. in 2022, though questions about the couple’s current relationship status made tabloid headlines on Tuesday.
Guilfoyle was a prominent surrogate for Trump during the 2024 campaign.
“For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend and ally,” Trump said in a social media post, praising her “extensive experience and leadership in law, media, and politics” and her “sharp intellect.”
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a slate of unorthodox loyalists to serve in his next administration, disregarding the kinds of legal baggage and inexperience he has carried through his own political career.
The position, which requires Senate confirmation, is currently held by Biden appointee George Tsunis.
Guilfoyle said Tuesday on X that it “was the democratic values born in Greece that helped shape the founding of America,” adding that she looked forward “to delivering on the Trump agenda, supporting our Greek allies, and ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity.”
She also once worked in the San Francisco district attorney’s office with future Vice President Kamala Harris, and the rumored frosty relationship between them was the topic of San Francisco gossip early in their careers.
Guilfoyle and Newsom — who famously posed together on a rug in a glamorous Harper’s Bazaar profile that declared them “the New Kennedys” — divorced in 2006, the same year she joined Fox News.
The former first lady of San Francisco was one of several high-profile appointees announced by Trump this week. The incoming president also nominated Ronald Johnson to serve as ambassador to Mexico, Federal Trade Commission member Andrew Ferguson to replace Lina Khan as FTC chair, and Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire with deep California ties, to be ambassador to Turkey.
Johnson served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador during Trump’s first term. Ferguson previously worked as chief counsel to outgoing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and as a counsel to GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to his FTC biography.
Barrack, a longtime Trump ally, was indicted but later acquitted on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates.
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