Why Trump's new announcement about Kimberly Guilfoyle matters

[LetMyPeopleVote]

For Trump, the former Fox News personality checks two boxes: She's both a television personality and someone with direct ties to his immediate family.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-new-announcement-kimberly-guilfoyle-matters-rcna183733

Once in a great while, however, the Republican president-elect is able to find someone who manages to check more than one box. NBC News reported:

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would nominate former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle and his longtime billionaire friend Tom Barrack to be ambassadors to Greece and Turkey, respectively. ... In a separate post announcing his selection of her for ambassador to Greece, Trump referred to Guilfoyle, who announced in 2022 that she was engaged to his son Donald Trump Jr., as a yearslong ‘close friend and ally.’

I’m mindful of the latest reporting suggesting that Guilfoyle might no longer be engaged to the president-elect’s oldest son, but I neither know nor care about their personal lives.

What I do care about is the frequency with which Trump chooses people of dubious qualifications for prominent governmental posts based on their closeness to members of his family. The growing list now includes:

Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s father-in-law, whom the president-elect intends to nominate as the next U.S. ambassador to France.
Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, whom the president-elect tapped to serve as a senior White House adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.
Adam Boehler, Jared Kushner’s college roommate, whom the president-elect tapped to serve as the special U.S. envoy for hostage affairs.

And we can now add Guilfoyle, who was apparently close to Donald Trump Jr., to the mix.

The former Fox News personality, who does not appear to have any background in diplomacy, will require Senate confirmation. Watch this space.

[IzzaNuDay]

1. But really, she slept her way into an ambassadorship

I'm not holding my breath looking for her qualifications.

[Prairie Gates]

2. This is a pretty goofy ambassadorship, really a way to get her out of their hair

That said, Trump's ambassador to Greece first term was a career diplomat and State Department normie. This one is obviously a no account know-nothing, so that's really par for the second term course.

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. My first thought about Guilfoyle's appointment: Why does Trump hate Greece?

[Evolve Dammit]

13. He couldn't find it on a map. Maybe up there with Nigger and Nipple. Remember??

[Hekate]

4. We will shortly bear all the marks of a banana republic, or hell, even Iraq under Saddam...

It's not what you know, it’s who you know. Who needs a merit based exam for civil service, when there are plenty of cousins and frat-bros who barely made it thru college in need of a sinecure? Who needs experience of any kind to be an ambassador when there’s a dumped mistress who needs placating? Why pretend to care about our oldest ally when there’s a felonious father in law who needs to meet some new marks?

Charles Pierce has long called Trump El Caudillo del Mar A Lago. How long before he awards himself some shiny medals to wear?

[Stardust Mirror]

5. Greece doesn't need any more stone statues

especially grotesque ones

[BattleRow]

14. A gargoylette.

[UTUSN]

6. Master Grifter Drumpf is carrying grift to new levels - using public money to get rid of family ex-girlfriends.

[Hassler]

7. Greece's loss is America's gain. One look

At her hideous mug and Atheneans will be like the torch bearing mob hunting down Frankenstein's monster

[Old Crank]

8. What has she done to her face?

Looks more like Melania.

[OrangeJoe]

9. Medusa

The Greeks know all about scary looking women.

[soandso]

11. Speaking from the most superficial standpoint

and on the subject of physical beauty, Kimberly needs work. She needs to loose that harsh makeup, cut her hair and get a facelift. In short, she needs a makeover. She looks like an old hooker or madame. Send her to the Makeover Guy on Youtube. He'll fix her up.

[BattleRow]

15. Putting the USA in MedUSA.

[Cha]

17. I think she looks like Dracula.

[Dem4life1970]

10. New saying

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219810556

[Submariner]

12. She's a lock for the role of Morticia

if Hollywood does an Addams Family remake.

[Cha]

18. Yeah... I said "Dracula" but Morticia is apt, too.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Dumped by Trump?

Go to Athens.

[allegorical oracle]

19. Daily Beast: Kimberly insulted Greek people in 2015 as "freeloaders"

Donald Trump Jr.’s long-suffering fiancé Kimberly Guilfoyle could have a diplomatic incident on her manicured hands before she is even confirmed as ambassador to Greece.

Guilfoyle’s comments on a 2015 episode of Fox News’ The Five have resurfaced, in which she called Greek citizens “freeloaders” and suggested they relied too much on the government.

The remarks, reported by Media Matters senior fellow Matthew Getz, followed news that the country rejected a debt bailout package from the European Union.

In a rant directed at the Greeks, Guilfoyle told them that they need to “suck it up” and work more.