U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, once a top campaign surrogate for Donald Trump, has resigned amid a misconduct probe.

“Serving as the United States Ambassador to Greece has been the honor of a lifetime,” Guilfoyle said Tuesday in a post on X announcing her resignation.

She also addressed “recent allegations against me,” writing, “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”

Guilfoyle’s post came shortly after new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters that Guilfoyle had been asked to step down.

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    Say what you will about her politics. She is mentally ill. Just look at what she did to her face. Mo one who is not mentally health would do that to themselves. I will say this. She made the outside look like the inside.

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      This is some real sexist shit, dawg. She’s a terrible person because of her actions, not because how she looks or how she’s decided to modify her body.

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          So you’re equating carving a swastika into your forehead to getting a lot of plastic surgery?

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            Yes. Both are absolutely being done to make a statement and to identify the self as a part of larger group making the same statement. But why?

            The link I posted for the Manson women explains exactly why in their own words.

            Kimberly Guilfoyle alters her body with vastly expensive plastic surgery and a specific look to make it plan that she is a part of this very exclusive group of ladies who all look the same, partnered to men who control the fraction of the 1% that rule the world. It very successfully says: “You will never look like me, you will never afford to look like me, you will never wield the power I wield,” even as she begs a donor to clear her $100K American Express bill that she cannot pay herself on the eve of her Senate confirmation hearing to be appointed ambassador to Greece.

            But why would anyone need to even make that kind of statement with their bodily appearance? That’s the question you should be asking and are trying everything in your power to avoid seeing.

            Hint: It’s not about whether you are a man or a woman, it is about extreme insecurity, coercive control, and mental illness.

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              This face is a comfort for a fascist to behold.

              I’ve been wondering exactly what the roots that led to these specific faces are. Any expensive surgery could do for signaling. This face ended up being the one for some deep, shared psychological reason.

              Studying paintings done by the mentally ill, it becomes obvious that they don’t see faces (or anything really) like the average person. This makes sense as even a well adjusted person will interpret an expression or tone differently depending on what they perceive the person to be feeling, or even their own mood. They will literally see it differently. The mentally ill just see an extreme version of this phenomenon.

              Fascists are terrified all the time. To them, every face must hide malice and deception. Mar-a-lago face is an exaggeration of a jovial, open, honest visage, to counteract what a fascist sees in every face.

              They have huge, puffy cheeks under their eyes, like the bunching of skin in a smile. Their lips are big and puffy, a far cry from pursed in anger, and they also make a smile more exaggerated. Their eyes are deeply, darkly outlined in ovals, not pointed at the edges, highlighting how they are open and not squinting or angry.

              Maralago face is a caricature of a happy, loving, honest face. To a normal person it looks like a horrific joke on that type of face, but to a fascist, these exaggerations push back against their own skewed vision of every face.

              To a fascist this face appears more normal and more comforting than a normal face.

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                I think you’re 100% right.

                I’ve been considering it for a while, every time I’d see one of these jarring photographs of extreme facial alteration and again just now when I was trying to explain why someone so seemingly well-placed and connected as Guilfoyle would go that far, why any of the Mar-a-Lago women would make caricatures of themselves as they have so obviously done.

                And it occurred to me: maybe they’re just terrified. Maybe they’re all scared shitless in that way you are when you’re running an unseen marathon to escape a looming danger, when you’re pouring your heart and soul into not going under in a bad situation. This too is what a number of the Manson women had in common with the Mar-a-Lago women: their men were anything but safe.

                And then you came along and put words and observations to it. You put a much finer point on it, and a more factual one (there are studies that substantiate what you say about the mentally ill not seeing faces the same way others do, for example) but somehow, some way, FEAR – which is the driver of all things fascist anyway, as you reminded us – is at the heart of this extreme self-modification too.

                Really good comment. I have been very interested in the why of these people for quite some time, and I learned a thing or two. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

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        Her life is dominated by insecurity. Mentally well people have healed the majority of their insecurity.

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              Exactly. She was the least insecure woman alive, seemed like. People should listen to her 1978 interview with Barbara Walters (this section starts at the 3:00 mark):

              Walters: You don’t have to look like this. You’re very beautiful. You don’t have to wear the blonde wigs. You don’t have to wear the extreme clothes, right?

              Dolly: No, it’s it’s certainly a choice. I don’t like to be like everybody else. I’ve often made this statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That’s the easiest thing in the world to do. So, I just decided that I would do something that would at least get the attention. Once they got past the shock of the ridiculous way I looked and all that, then they would see there was parts of me to be appreciated. I’m very real where it counts. And that’s inside, and as far as my outlook on life and the way I care about people and the way I care about myself and the things that I care about. But I just chose to do this, and it’s- show business is a money-making joke and I’ve just always liked telling jokes, you know.

              Walters: But do you ever feel that you’re a joke, that people make fun of you?

              Dolly: Oh, I know they make fun of me, but actually all these years the people, you know, has has thought the joke was on me, but it’s actually been on the public. I know exactly what I’m doing and I can change it at any time. Or I make more jokes about myself than than anybody, because I enjoy it. I know it. Like I say I am sure of myself as a person. I’m sure of my talent. And to me- And I’m sure of of my love and for life and that sort of thing. I’m very content. I like the kind of person that I am.

              On the other hand, extremely insecure people do tend to lash out and call other people names, like chodes and dorks, lol. Funny how this conversation is emerging.

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    Bro… did you guys know that she was not only Trump Jr.'s fiancée but also was MARRIED to Gavin Newsom!? Her type is apparently greasy rich white guy who is literally one of the worst people in their respective political parties who fucking hates poor people.

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      Trump didn’t get cut in on the deal, every mafioso knows that’s not how you do business in a crime syndicate.

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      I wonder what’s the real reason, perhaps a feud between her and Don Jr? Surely these minor corruption allegations (by Trump admin standards) can’t be it.

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      It was for a trifling $100k? Elon’s midterm donations are almost 4x that. Go big or go home.

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        This was only one of the people that *has talked about it.

        • There’s guaranteed to be more
        • He already gave 300k, and offered a million if she could get the taxes things worked out
        • He is as dumb as a bag of rocks. He admitted the bribe because she wasn’t following through with her promises.
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    Nah, this ain’t the reason. She refused a BJ to someone important.

    The government watchdog’s probe comes as legal consultant and longtime Donald Trump supporter and donor Eric Deters has accused Guilfoyle of asking him to pay her outstanding $100,000 American Express bill in the days before her 2025 confirmation hearing in exchange for access to senior administration officials.

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          I mean, I could have refrained from adding yet another small instance in the Pain Nexus, so I don’t think you’re alone to blame.

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            Nah, I actually appreciate that you did. As another commenter noted, she’s managed to make the outside match the inside.

            When it comes to basic humanity and being competent members of community and society, Trump and his inner circle are all fakes. IMO we need to see more of that in this harsh critical light, as it truly is in reality and not through polished IG filters while the dopamine is still flowing hard from all the propaganda hits.

            And if one of them happens to look like an unevenly inflated blow-up doll factory reject made for someone with a hate fetish, an evil facsimile that would make even Dorian Gray wince, all the better.

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        Jesus. She looks more manly than Hulk Hogan. Kate Jenner has competition for “beautiful.” And don’t give me shit about Jenner. By any standards of any kind, that woman still looks like an ugly man. So does this…hideous creature.

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      They all look like if Janice tried to stay relevant after The Electric Mayhem broke up, then crashed out and started posting racist shit on Twitter.