Treasury secretarys wife boasts of travel on government plane, touts Hermes and Valentino fashion

[demmiblue]

Source: Washington Post

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Louise Linton, boasted of flying on a government plane with her husband to Kentucky on Monday and then named the numerous fashion brands she wore on the trip in an unusual social media post that only became more bizarre minutes later.

When someone posted a comment on Linton's Instagram picture that criticized the way Linton touted the trip, the treasury secretary's wife swung back hard, mentioning the extreme wealth she and her husband control.

“Did you think this was a personal trip?!” Linton wrote on her Instagram page, responding to the person who had written “glad we could pay for your little getaway.”

(Linton's Instagram account was later made “private” so that it could not be publicly seen).

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/21/treasury-secretarys-wife-boasts-of-travel-on-government-plane-touts-hermes-and-valentino-fashion/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.e882893cb6da

Edit: Wrong title (I was also reading another article in WaPo about her)

[Thrill]

1. These folks actually think these people give a shit

About them

[demmiblue]

2. Here is the other WaPo article:

Treasury secretary’s wife stirred controversy before, with memoir of her ‘living nightmare’ in Africa

...

As news of the exchange circulated, social media users were quick to remember last year’s Zambia memoir debacle, along with the hashtag it had prompted: #LintonLies

Linton’s book, “In Congo’s Shadow,” described how, as an 18-year-old, she “abandoned her privileged life in Scotland” in 1999 to live in Zambia for six months, a period that she described as “a living nightmare.” She wrote about becoming a “central character” in the “horror story” of Congolese war of the late 1990s, terrified of what the rebels across the border might do to the “skinny white muzungu with long angel hair.” (Muzungu is a Bantu term often used to refer to wealthy white people.)

She added: “Now that I’m a grown woman living in California and pursuing a very different dream — as an actress and film producer — I know that the skinny white girl once so incongruous in Africa still lives on inside me. Even in this world where I’m supposed to belong, I still sometimes feel out of place. Whenever that happens, though, 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.”

The memoir, a 290-page account written with Wendy Holden, included what many Zambians characterized as cliches and misrepresentations of Africa. Linton wrote of the “inky blackness deep in the Zambian bush” and the “brutal tales of rape and murder.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/22/treasury-secretarys-wife-stirred-controversy-before-with-a-memoir-of-her-living-nightmare-in-africa/

[dalton99a]

3. Lifestyles of the rich and famous who are ripping off taxpayers

aka the Trump administration

[Zoonart]

7. YEP...

Let them eat cake!

[malaise]

14. Nailed it

Rec

[delisen]

4. The Entitled. Never tote up what they take. Can we afford The Entitled?

Probable not.

[Pachamama]

5. Ahhhh....."White Saviour Barbie" strikes again....

Little Louise is a real class act....looks like she stuck her Christian Louboutins in her mouth again....

https://qz.com/1016641/steven-mnuchin-marries-louise-linton-panned-by-zambians-for-her-white-savior-memoir/

[cwydro]

6. It literally amazes me that someone would brag about designer clothing.

I think she must be very empty inside, and she's trying desperately to fill that emptiness.

It's actually pathetic.

[MrScorpio]

8. Apparently she's spent too long on too many Hollywood red carpets

The carpet cleaning solvent fumes must have affected her brain.

[GetRidOfThem]

9. She mentions the actual designer brands...

... they must be sh*tting bricks! You can become unhip and uncool pretty quickly if associted with fascism and the xtreme right..


E

[ehrnst]

10. Silicone sister with her manager mister... (nt)

[bagelsforbreakfast]

11. Is it true Pence's wife threatened divorce if he ate wedding cake with her? n/m

[bettyellen]

12. She's trying to fit in w the grifters

[malaise]

13. Seriously these scumbags have no class

[Achilleaze]

15. royalist republicans love to lord it over Americans

Wearing their gourmet golden fashions while they piss on ordinary Americans.

Deplorable

[Johonny]

16. Oh good, a total PR disaster. That's a refreshing change for this white house...

[no_hypocrisy]

17. The Money Song

[teezy]

18. She's such a fascionista! n/t

[jalan48]

19. She was probably just giddy from sucking down down too much champagne on the flight.