President Donald Trump said Friday that he knew little about the explosive reports surrounding his ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, telling reporters, “It’s too bad.”
The comments came days after The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report earlier this week alleging that Guilfoyle sought $100,000 from former Trump donor Eric Deters to cover her credit card bill while offering political influence in return.
Guilfoyle is the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr.
According to the Journal, Guilfoyle sent Deters a Signal message on July 3, 2025, that read, “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today.”
The ambassador then followed up with a “prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express,” the Journal reported.
Trump addressed the matter while speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday. The president was en route to a rally in Syracuse, New York, for Bruce Blakeman, the state’s Republican gubernatorial candidate.
When a reporter attempted to ask the president about the allegations, Trump interrupted.
“I just heard about it. It’s too bad. I mean, I don’t know. She’s, she’s an ambassador. Uh, I just heard a little bit about it. I don’t know too much, but she was always very nice,” Trump said.
Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. began dating in 2018 and confirmed their engagement in 2022. The couple ultimately split in 2024 after six years together.
Deters, the former donor at the center of the report, did not hold back during a fiery appearance on MS NOW on Thursday.
He branded the ambassador a “grifter” and suggested he was not the only one she had approached.
“Kimberly Guilfoyle, I have no doubt, has done this to more than me. She’s doing it right now in Greece,” Deters said.
He then went further, naming two other figures.
“I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff,” Deters said.
But Deters’ own credibility came under scrutiny during the same interview.
At another point in the conversation, MS NOW anchor Peter Alexander was forced to confront the former donor about his past.
“You do have a track record of making false statements in court proceedings that led to the suspension of your law license,” Alexander told him.
That history is a matter of record. The Kentucky Bar Association “twice suspended [Deters] over misconduct, including making false statements in court proceedings and filing frivolous claims.”
The allegations against Guilfoyle center on the request for $100,000 to pay her credit card bill, which the Journal reported came alongside an offer of political influence in exchange.
The president, for his part, kept his remarks brief, repeatedly emphasizing that he had only just learned of the reports and did not know much about them.
While Trump acknowledged that the situation was “too bad,” he also offered a kind word for his ambassador to Greece, noting that Guilfoyle “was always very nice.”
