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Guilfoyle’s “like” on Antonis Samaras Opens a New Political Front

October 7, 2026

ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ

The documented “like” by U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle on a MEGA News post featuring Antonis Samaras’s latest intervention has triggered political speculation in Athens. The gesture, preserved in an Instagram screenshot, comes amid Samaras’s renewed criticism of the government over North Macedonia and Greek-Bulgarian relations.

By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team

The political story begins not with a rumour or an anonymous briefing, but with a visible Instagram interaction: beneath a MEGA News (@megatvnews) video presenting Antonis Samaras’s latest attack on the government, the platform displayed the line “Liked by kimberlyguilfoyle and 909 others,” with a screenshot preserved by To Pontiki providing direct visual evidence that the account of U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle had registered its approval of the post.

That detail immediately acquired significance because the MEGA post was hardly politically neutral material, since it reproduced Samaras’s intervention accusing the government of retreat on two issues touching the most sensitive terrain of Greek foreign policy: North Macedonia and the Prespa Agreement, and the agreement with Bulgaria involving the return of Tsar Samuel’s remains alongside the repatriation of 48 ecclesiastical treasures. Samaras argued that developments concerning references to a “Macedonian” language and culture demonstrated that matters had become even worse than the Prespa settlement, while on the Bulgarian agreement he maintained that Athens should have demanded the return of all religious treasures removed from northern Greece rather than accepting only 48 objects, concluding his intervention with the emphatic declaration that “this is not Greece.”

Here is the evidence:

It is precisely the combination of who clicked “like” and what she was liking that turned an otherwise routine social-media gesture into political material, because Guilfoyle was not reacting to an innocuous profile of a former prime minister but to a television post highlighting one of Samaras’s sharpest recent confrontations with the Mitsotakis government. Dimokratia presented the development as another source of pressure on Maximos and linked it to the wider confrontation with Samaras, while Estia went further, explicitly interpreting the ambassador’s gesture as a possible diplomatic “warning shot” directed toward the government.

Those interpretations, however, go beyond what the Instagram evidence itself can prove, because neither Guilfoyle nor the U.S. Embassy has publicly explained the meaning of the interaction, while Vradini also records the less dramatic possibility that the gesture reflected the ambassador’s previously cordial personal and institutional contact with Samaras rather than a coordinated message from Washington. Η Βραδυνή

What remains indisputable is therefore politically intriguing enough on its own: Guilfoyle’s account liked MEGA’s presentation of a Samaras video directly attacking government policy, the interaction was captured before it disappeared into the flow of Instagram activity, and the timing ensured that Athens immediately began asking whether one small digital gesture carried a considerably larger diplomatic message.