As Donald Trump, Jr. moves on with his new love Bettina Anderson, he maintained that he and his longtime fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, share “a special bond.”
He exclusively said Page six Friday that he and Guilfoyle “will never stop caring for each other.”
“Kimberly and I will never stop caring about each other and will always maintain a special bond,” Trump Jr., 46, said in a statement.
He added a congratulations to Guilfoyle, who will serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Greece.
“I couldn’t be more proud of her and the important role she will continue to play in my father’s administration,” Trump Jr. said.
In his statement to Page Six, he also worked to defend her from some of the potentially damaging stories that have emerged about Guilfoyle in the wake of her nomination, many of them centered on her failed relationship with the president’s son.
The latest that could undermine her efforts to be confirmed by the Senate came in the form of a resurfaced story claiming she allegedly sexually harassed her assistant while she worked at Fox News.
As the story goes, that was the reason she was fired from Fox in 2018, but she previously vehemently denied the accusation.
“Anyone who attacks him with fake, baseless, mean-spirited news in the tabloids is just embarrassing themselves,” Trump Jr. said.
When Kimberly Guilfoyle’s shocking nomination as ambassador to Greece was announced, the rush to congratulate her was led by Donald Trump Jr. despite their relationship failing.
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson left little doubt about their position during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago just two days after they were spotted leaving a Palm Beach dinner holding hands in Palm Beach.
‘She has been an undefeated prosecutor, a national television news star, a leader of the MAGA movement and a close advisor to the president. “The people of Greece are receiving an absolute star and now the whole world will see it more than ever,” he added.
Her statement concluded: “From the beginning, no one on Team Trump has worked harder than Kimberly to help elect and re-elect my father, and no one deserves this embassy more than her.”
This all comes as DailyMail.com photographed Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson walking hand in hand outside a posh restaurant in Palm Beach, even though he has yet to confirm his split from Guilfoyle.
The new couple spent nearly two hours in the popular Buccan center, three miles from Anderson’s home in West Palm Beach, where they have spent days and nights.
Trump Jr., dressed in a smart blue suit and a white shirt open at the collar, showed no qualms about showing off his new love as they left the restaurant just before 10 p.m.
Anderson, wearing loose, flowy black pants with a black vest-style blouse and clutching a maroon purse with a gold clasp, stayed close to her man as they approached his truck parked right in front of the restaurant, their fingers intertwined.
DailyMail.com previously reported that Anderson has likely been in the same social circles as the Trumps for years and had previously been seen attending events at Mar-a-Lago.
And according to a source: “Trump insiders have known Bettina for months” and Don has been “dying to show her off at Mar-a-Lago.”
Sources told DailyMail.com on Friday that Don has been ‘biting a bit to show off’ his new girlfriend at Mar-a-Lago, after news of his split from Kimberly Guilfoyle broke.
—She’s been there before, of course, but he’s been much more discreet about being together. And together they are,” the source told DailyMail.com on Friday.
‘He is bewitched by Bettina: her looks, her intelligence, her pedigree. Now that Kim is out of the picture, the relationship will get even more serious.”
Trump Jr. reportedly swung at his new girlfriend during dinner at his father’s Mar-a-Lago club on Wednesday night.
Sources described the couple as “clearly in love” and revealed that the couple made no attempt to hide it as they “laughed and whispered to each other in the buffet line.” Page six reported.
Insiders also say that the relationship between Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle began to falter in March, when she He invited hundreds of guests to his 55th birthday party at his home in Jupiter, Florida. It has been claimed that Trump Jr. was nowhere to be found for part of the night, apparently retreating to his room.
Others suggest that Trump Jr. has become increasingly embarrassed by Guilfoyle’s little-to-the-imagination wardrobe, his colorful public displays and his taste for a party lifestyle that could make an increasingly self-conscious Trump family uncomfortable. of his presidential legacy.
According to a former Fox News colleague, the lawyer-turned-activist was known as “the Margarita Girl” thanks to her love of the popular cocktail and the party lifestyle associated with it.
Trump Jr. also reportedly has a problem with Guilfoyle’s increasingly tight-fitting outfits (Guilfoyle is pictured at NYFW in 2019).
A source close to the Trump family believes Trump Jr.’s new lover will fit in better
While there is no indication that Guilfoyle habitually drinks excessively, alcohol is certainly a touchstone for the Trumps.
Trump Jr., having drank his way through college early in his life, is known to take his sobriety very seriously. His sister Ivanka avoids alcohol.
His father, Donald, is famously teetotal, a reaction to the alcoholism that claimed the life of his older brother, Fred Jr., at the age of just 42.
According to People magazine, a source close to the family believes Trump Jr.’s new lover will be a better fit.
“Don Jr. has always wanted to look good in his father’s eyes,” the source said.
“Someone like Bettina, who is and has been a model, and is in Waspy circles in Palm Beach, is something that would impress him.”
Another source reportedly confirmed that Trump Jr. doesn’t like Guilfoyle’s wardrobe: “Tight dresses need to go, and she’s been told that.”