Trump Fires Kimberly Guilfoyle? $100K Scandal, Putin Deal & White House Chaos

Ultimize. Donald Trump fired somebody for corruption. That's like the Titanic filing a complaint about a leaky faucet. Hi, I'm TJ Walker, just a guy from North Carolina trying to make sense of the world. And folks, today the world showed up drunk and wanted to talk. Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's ambassador to Greece and Don Jr.'s ex-fiancée, just got pushed out After the Wall Street Journal reported she had asked a Republican donor to pay off $100,000 on her American Express right before her Senate confirmation. As one does. The donor shared the text. Honey, please, I need you to get this done for me today. Honey, please. That's not a text. That's a romance scam with a flag pin. She denies it. As a life coach, I teach people to ask for what they want. Kimberly asked a stranger for $100 grand and called him honey. That's not a vision board. That's a ransom note with a heart emoji. Her fans say she's a loyal fighter getting smeared, and Trump prizes loyalty. So look, I fully expected Trump to fire J.D. Vance and make her vice president. Finally, somebody with initiative. But no, in Trump world, cashing in on access to Trump is a crime. It's copyright infringement. That business belongs to the family. Trump's heartfelt farewell. She wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago. They were engaged. They owned a $9.7 million house together. By that standard, Melania is just a tenant with strong opinions about drapes. Here's how she got the job. In December 2024, Don Jr. was photographed holding hands with socialite Bettina Anderson. The very next day, Trump named Kimberly ambassador to Greece. Most dads console a breakup by saying, "There are plenty of fish in the sea." Trump said, "Here's a whole sea. Take the Aegean." In 2015 on Fox, she called Greeks freeloaders. Who should be punished like a dog that pees on the rug. 10 years later, she's their ambassador asking a donor to pay her credit card. Good news, Greece, we found the freeloader. Bad news, we also found the rug. The donor, Eric Detters, says he never paid. He told CBS he made up an excuse his wife wouldn't go along with it. Gentlemen, write this down. Your wife is not a nag. She's your compliance department. And let's not feel too sorry for Kimberly. In 2018, she was forced out of Fox News over what the Times called inappropriate workplace behavior, and the New Yorker reported a harassment settlement of more than $4 million, which she denied. Now, the real inside story is she's the only woman to ever be fired from Fox for sexual harassment. She was showing naughty pictures of men she allegedly dated to staff members, and they didn't like it. Let's keep in mind, Fox had already said goodbye to Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly. She didn't break the culture. She was the encore. Full disclosure, back in the day, I was a guest on Kimberly's Fox show many times. I sat right next to her, and not once did she text me, honey, Please. Frankly, I guess I'm a little insulted. I had access. I had a newsletter. But do not count this woman out. She's a human boomerang. Trump threw her all the way to Greece and she still came back, probably carrying somebody else's credit card. If J.D. Vance ever becomes president, I predict a cage match for First Lady. Pusha Vance, Erica Kirk, and Kimberly Guilfoyle. 2 of those women don't even know they've entered. My money's on Kimberly, last one standing, holding the championship belt and texting somebody, honey, please pay for the belt. Speaking of people Donald Trump has carefully looked over, Donald Trump campaigning Monday for Ohio Senator Jon Husted told the crowd in Youngstown, I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body. He said he looked up and down, then at the senators. Let's call it a bass minus the B. Very often, Trump said. Then the hands. He's got these like claws. That's not a senator. That's a lobster with a pension. And nearly 40 minutes later, he circled back. Look at that jawline. I'm telling you, I never saw that. 40 minutes later, forget the economy. Forget gas prices, forget Ukraine. The man had a jawline on his mind. Now, his fans say this is Trump being authentic, no filter, and I get it. Authenticity sells. But if my grandpa back in Charlotte praised a senator's body at Thanksgiving, then brought it up again over pie, nobody would call it authenticity. We'd call a family meeting, take the car keys, and quietly Google memory care near me. And it's a pattern. A week earlier in Ohio, he promised Republicans would win and shove it up the Democrats— well, that body part again. Then Tuesday in Alaska, he pardoned 2 men and told them they were now as clean as a newborn baby's— there's that word again. Then he asked the crowd, why is that so clean? 3 rallies in 9 days, 3 references to the same body part, which I will call the posterior. That's not a campaign. That's a proctology residency. And the headlines call this colorful remarks. Colorful? If Joe Biden said he'd examined a senator's body, Fox News would install a 25th Amendment countdown clock, and Sean Hannity would be giving CPR to the Constitution on live TV. My helpful tip for the president: when your inner monologue starts escaping through the microphone, That's not a brand. That's a symptom. Try journaling. Better yet, try a nap at a building with a nurse and a keypad on the door. Would you like to be the sort of successful person who is dominating news, at least in your industry? Well, if so, it's time to up your skills. At ultimize.com, I've created online courses to help you do that. Now, here's the thing. No obligation. You can get a free course on communication skills, a free course on how to build better habits. All you have to do is go to ultimize.com. That's ultimize.com. No obligation. Go there now. And while Trump was studying Ohio senators, Vladimir Putin was studying Trump. Somewhere tonight, the John Birch Society deserves a public apology. In the '50s and '60s, The Birchers warned that enemies of America had infiltrated the top of our government. Their founder even accused President Eisenhower of being a communist agent. Everybody laughed. Turns out they had the right idea. They just picked the wrong Republican president. Donald Trump just handed Vladimir Putin a diesel deal. He offered sanctions relief on Russian fuel, called for Ukraine to get a new leader, and pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russian oil refineries. Then he declared an energy ceasefire that the Times reports only covered oil refineries. Ukraine has one major refinery, and Russia largely knocked it out in 2022. That's not a ceasefire. That's a prenup where only one person owns anything. And Putin's thank-you note? The day after the deal, Russia killed 22 people in a region, including 4 children. Now, diesel prices really are brutal, and wanting relief for farmers and truckers is reasonable. But French presidential candidate Raphael Glucksmann says America is led by someone who's either a, quote, useful idiot or an agent of Europe's destruction, end quote. As a life coach, I hate binary thinking. Why can't he be both? Embrace the and. Results test: lift Russian sanctions, check. Pressure Ukraine, check. Demand a new Ukrainian leader, check. At some point, a coincidence becomes a job description. The Times reports today's diesel crisis comes mostly from the war with Iran, which Trump launched himself. So he set his own kitchen on fire, bought a fire extinguisher from the guy burning down the neighbor's house, and the extinguisher is empty. Meanwhile, Putin gets a December trip to Miami for the G20, and Ukraine gets winter in the dark. Somebody's vision board is working. Spoiler: it's not Zelensky's. At a meeting in Miami, Trump officials told Ukraine it owed Washington for American intelligence. Some in the room took that as a veiled threat. Nice power grid you got there. Shame if nobody warned you about anything. Then, 2 nights in a row, Ukraine got no early warning before Russian missiles hit Kyiv. The sirens went off after the missiles were already launched. That's not an early warning system. That's a smoke detector that goes off as the fire department is leaving. Now, to be fair, Ukraine's foreign minister says intelligence is still flowing, and some experts say the launches may simply have gone undetected. Trump says we are helping them and we are sharing intel, and I believe him. I just want to know with whom he's sharing. The Birchers spent 40 years looking for a Kremlin agent under every bed in America. They should have checked the Lincoln Bedroom. And Putin isn't the only one getting handouts. Donald Trump is campaigning for the midterms like a game show host. $500 Obamacare refund checks, $90 for seniors' Medicare premiums, and $5,000 for every adult. The Trump dividend. If Republicans keep Congress— price tag: more than $1 trillion. Little hint for you, spoiler alert, you're not getting the $5,000 win or lose. Then Tuesday in Alaska, he added pardons live on stage, Oprah style. You get a pardon and you get a pardon. Now his fans say this puts money back in working people's pockets, and I get it, groceries are brutal. But Mitt Romney warned us about this after losing in 2012. He said Obama won by handing out gifts. Conservatives spent 30 years warning that America would become a nation of handouts. They were right. They just didn't expect to be the ones driving the ice cream truck. My tip for voters: when a man offers you cash and a pardon, that's not a candidate, that's a game show wheel of clemency. And the second those 2 men got their pardons, One grabbed the mic and said, let's reelect Dan Sullivan. They didn't even wait for the ink to dry. That's not clemency. That's a campaign ad with a receipt. Trump even told us how he sees these favors. Last year, he pardoned a prominent Democratic congressman of federal bribery charges. This month, he called the congressman ungrateful for not switching parties. So he pardoned a man for bribery, then complained the bribe that he gave this very same man didn't work. That's not a president. That's a vending machine that's mad you didn't tip. Someone has to explain all of this to the press, which brings us to the newest member of the team. Katie Zachariah, Donald Trump's new White House press secretary, held her first briefing Tuesday. She read nervously from a script for about 8 minutes, took questions for 5 and a half, and called on exactly 3 outlets: Breitbart, Fox, and the Daily Mail. You know, the mainstream media? That's not a press briefing. That's a family reunion. The biggest story in Washington is whether America stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine. She was asked. Her answer: I'll have to get back to you on that. Finally, the White House and Ukraine agree on something: nobody gets an early warning. Then asked about juggling the job with four kids, she said, "So my president," excuse me, my husband. That's right; she confused the president with her husband. Now she's a working mom of four, and her fans love that she's a fighter. But in Trump's White House, calling him your husband isn't a slip; it's the performance review. I've trained people to speak in public for decades, so here's my free tip: read the sentence before you read it to the planet. Trump calls her an attorney. A Times reporter asked which state she passed the bar exam in. She stepped forward and said, uh, when I moved to China. What does that even mean? That's not an answer. That's a fortune cookie. The White House still won't say whether or where she passed a bar exam. And here's the shocker: Katie Zachariah is 41 years old. Carolyn Levitt started this job at age 27. By Trump hiring standards, 41 is basically Social Security time. This is MAGA DEI— diversity, equity, and inclusion for the elderly. Next, he'll hire someone with one gray hair and call it a Medicare expansion. She also called Trump Quote, the most family-friendly president we've ever had. Hmm. 3 marriages, 5 kids, 1 hush money conviction. He's not family-friendly. He's family plural. She says her job is to amplify what Trump does. She's not a press secretary. She's a Bluetooth speaker with highlights. After the briefing, Trump strolled to Marine One and left her standing alone while reporters shouted, Katie! Katie! She just smiled and Stared straight ahead. As a media trainer, I had to admit that was her best answer all day. Katie, call me. First session's free. Second session, I'll need a donor to cover my American Express. And somewhere in Athens, Kimberly Guilfoyle watched that briefing and shook her head. My president— excuse me, my husband— amateur hour. You don't confuse the president with your husband, sweetheart. You get engaged to his son and text a donor, honey, please. I'm TJ Walker. See you tomorrow. Ultimize.