Is Kimberly Guilfoyle the one California Gurl who can melt the L.A. ICE mess?
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is obviously not up to the task
As California’s moon unit-esque governor, Gavin Newsom, recently started tilting to the right, there was some speculation that some advice was coming his way via his ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to whom he was married from 2001 until 2006.
Who knows if that’s true — but with public figures it’s often helpful to spot patterns, and one of Ms. Guilfoyle’s is that she does, like many a French politician, keep the lines of communication open to former flames.
Consider that she just reminded her social media followers that accompanying her in Monaco for “a friend’s birthday” was none other than President Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr. — with whom she is also friends. According to the Internet, the two began dating in 2018 and were at one point engaged, a state of affairs which ended in 2024.
While most Americans know Kimberly Guilfoyle as former co-host of “The Five” on Fox, Californians also remember her work as a prosecutor prior to that in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Post all that, she is Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Greece, though she has yet to get the usually pro forma grilling in the Senate. My sources on the Hill aren’t able or willing to give me a reason why it’s taking so long; but no ambassador is probably better than the previous two — one who dabbled in dark political arts in Ukraine with former Dartha Vader of the State Dept, Victoria Nuland, the other a corpulent Biden appointee who had enough geography problems to make him a laughing stock in DC. So it goes.
When it comes to defusing a crisis, whether of a personal or political nature, the most important thing is communication. In this respect, American leaders are coming up short. With few exceptions, all have failed. From his bully pulpit at the White House, Trump talks to California pols as if they were limp-wristed runts in the schoolyard.
The President calls Newsom “Newscum.” Newsom asks Trump where his “decency” is, and says the president “is sowing chaos and division,” calling the mayhem on some streets and freeways of L.A. a “100% Trump manufactured crisis.”
Well Gavin, Trump did say he would bring manufacturing back to America, so there you go.
The reality is closer to something like this: the last time I checked, the speed limit on most L.A. freeways is 65 mph. Most Angelenos speed. But if a CHP officer pulls you over for doing 80 on the Hollywood Freeway, she or he isn’t going to take your car or license away. You’ll get a ticket. The ticket is a fine, but it’s also a warning. Get enough speeding tickets and you’re going to have problems.
California was Spanish and Mexican before it was American. Should Mexican immigrants be in the state legally? Of course. Should they be arrested and thrown out of the country if they, say, missed an administrative deadline? Or should they get a warning that they have a few weeks or couple of months to get their acts together or then face deportation?
Where is the communication?
I would suggest that someone like Ms. Guilfoyle take a break from the party yachts and work the phones to calm the waters between messrs Trump and Newsom. It’s nice that she can raise lots of money, as she supposedly did for Donald Trump. In politics, loyalty does count, and she does stand by her man.
But what is happening right now in Southern Calfornia is a national embarrassment. It may sound cliche, but yes we are better than this.
In times of crisis, you put down the makeup, pick up the phone, and you stand by your state.
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