Louise Linton, Mnuchin's wife, is such a lovely, caring, deeply empathetic person:
That’s Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, attacking a woman who wrote “glad we could pay for your little getaway” after Linton posted a photo Monday night about wearing #hermes, #valentino, #roulandmouret, and #tomfordsunnies on an official government-chartered #daytrip to Kentucky. For those of you keeping score at home, Linton manages to both complain about how much she sacrifices in taxes while shaming the woman for not earning as much; suggest that she and her husband, who made a significant amount of money at Goldman Sachs before running a
“foreclosure machine,” have given more to their country than their haters ever could; employ the strategic use of the curled bicep emoji, the blowing kisses face, and “Lololol”; and, of course, the coup de grâce—“you’re adorably out of touch.” The woman Linton responded to was later identified by
The New York Times as Jenni Miller,
a mother of three from Portland, Oregon.
Incidentally, this is not the first time that Linton, whose husband is currently attempting to orchestrate a massive tax cut that would
shift trillions to the rich, has accidentally made a case for more progressive taxation. In June, ahead of her nuptials to Mnuchin, the 36-year-old actress sat down with
Town & Country to
talk about all of the many diamonds she would be wearing for the big day, including but not limited to her very large engagement ring, her diamond wedding band, a diamond bracelet, two pairs of diamond earrings, a couple of diamond necklaces, a pair of diamond earrings she had turned into a cocktail ring, and a diamond brooch of two parrots kissing a pearl. (Nor is it the first time she’s found herself at the center of controversy, having self-published a memoir about her gap year in Africa that was widely mocked as a stereotype-laden white savior fantasy, and which
resulted in calls for Zambia to demand an apology from Scotland, where Linton was born and raised.)
