Louise Linton is the wife of Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. She’s also once again proven that she’s horrible human being.
Yesterday, the 36-year-old D-list actress/trophy wife, who has appeared in such films as Serial Daters Anonymous and Heineken Experience: Brew You, as well as the Lifetime Original Movie William & Kate: The Movie, posted a picture of herself on Instagram disembarking a military jet emblazoned with official government markings along with the caption, “Great #daytrip to #Kentucky!”
She also included hashtags naming the various pieces of her expensive wardrobe, including #rolandmouret, #hermesscarf, #tomford, and #valentino.
The photo raised the ire of Jenni Miller, a mother of three from Portland, who commented, “Glad we could pay for your little getaway. #deplorable.”
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And that’s when things turned ugly.
Linton quickly responded:
Aw!!! Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable! Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol. Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?
But she didn’t stop there. She continued:
I’m pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day ‘trip’ than you did. Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you’d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours.
Then she added emojis of a curled bicep and a face blowing a kiss.
“You’re adorably out of touch,” she said, later adding, “your life looks cute” before concluding, “Go chill out and watch the new game of thrones. It’s fab!”
Shortly after that, she set her Instagram account to private. But not before people grabbed a screenshot of the toe-curling post:
When contacted by the New York Times, an official from the Treasury Department declined to comment on Linton’s post. But the official did say the Mnuchins reimbursed the government for the day trip, and that Linton did not receive any compensation from any of the labels she promoted with hashtags.
Twitter has not been kind to Linton for her remarks:
Scarf by Hermes, plane by taxpayer, condescending tone my own #louiselinton https://t.co/O0T50mOJC0
— Page Six Emily (@PageSixEmily) August 22, 2017
Louise Linton is a hideous person, growing fat off of our tax dollars and attacking veterans as not having made sacrifices. Go. To. Hell.
— Nich DiCaprio (@NichDiCaprio) August 22, 2017
#LouiseLinton is really FEELING her designer brand self as she effortlessly slaps the less fortunate with her immense wealth.
— Nobody (@pantone1497too) August 22, 2017
If you ever wanted to explain the definition of "vulgarian," this would be a good place to start. https://t.co/oHzlkAlLuG
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 22, 2017
Louise Linton, wife of @stevenmnuchin1, about to find out sneering costs more than a Hermes scarf. https://t.co/u6o2i9Y2vr
— eileen spiegler (@espiegler) August 22, 2017
But this isn’t the first time Linton has come under fire for her deplorable behavior. In 2016, she self-published a “memoir” titled In Congo’s Shadow: One girl’s perilous journey to the heart of Africa that recounted her time in Zambia, where she volunteered as an 18-year-old in 1999.
In it, she talked about hiding from fictional “armed rebels” in an “old straw hut.” (“I tried not to think what the rebels would do to the ‘skinny white Muzungu with long angel hair’ if they found me,” she wrote.) And discussed helpless children with HIV who she treated with kindness. (“I try to remember a smiling gap-toothed child with HIV whose greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink from a bottle of Coca-Cola.”)
After readers criticized the book for its inaccuracies and promotion of the false narrative of “the white savior,” Linton withdrew it from sale. She later said she was “genuinely dismayed” at the response and apologized for causing offense, though she maintained the book was “based on my recollection of events from 1999.”
Somehow we don’t think she’s going to apologize for her latest rant on Instagram.
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Heywood Jablowme
Mrs. Munchkin was a bit over-dressed for a trip to Kentucky in summer. At least she was wearing white, but really, a Hermes scarf?
Bad Ass Biker
As someone said on another site, it is too bad that she had to take public transportation.
contrary1
Someone needs to tell the beyatch – hey Ms. C U Nxt Thur – time to move on….
paul dorian lord fredine
nerd with ex-cheerleader and lead ‘mean girl’ make lovely couple for his next high school reunion.
adrianjurado310
no they don’t. I wouldn’t feed them dog beep.
dean089
Yeah, but, seriously, if he walks into a room with her nobody is going to be impressed. They’ll just be asking if she charges by the hour or a single price for the entire night. Ooh, powerful Washington guy buys a life-size Barbie doll. Film at eleven…
adrianjurado310
unlike those greedy beeps. I just need a food and a crow bar. Konichiwa.
ryuichi
Just be glad you’re not married to her.
He BGB
She could have just announced “hey, everyone! I think brand name expensive stuff makes me look important but I have no class.”
contrary1
Yeah, typical white trash nouveau riche – seems like 45’s administration is full of that – sad country we’re living in now….
Xzamilloh
That “raphale” commenter was annoying. Talking about having class back in the executive branch. I love how these mouth breathing idiots think that putting an expensive bow on a turd somehow makes it classy.
Xzamilloh
*ralphale
Rob91316
Spoken like a true RepugliKKKunt.
yaletownman
My grandfather always said that there was nothing lower than when “white trash” got there hands on a few dollars. Now I see what he meant.
NateOcean
You know, sometime the trailer trash happen to live in Park Avenue penthouses.
Just ask the Trumps.
CaliKyle
Exactly. And many so-called trophy wives are nothing more than an amalgamation of plastic surgery, peroxide and self-imposed starvation. See Mrs Mnuchin as exhibit A.
Jaxton
Didn’t Louise Linton marry into money? Acting must have been relatively hard work.
jckfmsincty
She’s the neo Eva Braun. How proud her husband must be. Next.
Georgeiv2
She needs a gay friend to adviser her ( or a personal shopper ) all that money and all those brands and that’s what she looks like ? well I ask you The only one to be impressed is her …..
DCguy
She should be careful talking about the taxes they paid seeing has how her husband earned his money by stealing it from Senior citizens. If the govt. ever REALLY looked into him he’d probably be in jail.
Combine that with the tacky desperation to point out what she’s wearing.
1. Like anybody cares
2. If you have to brag that you are wearing an Hermes Scarf, then you shouldn’t be wearing one.
1EqualityUSA
Perhaps she had no mentor? Things are superficial. She may, someday, realize it, preferably earlier than later.
DavidIntl
Why exactly is this on Queerty?