‘She Was Very Condescending’
Tuesday morning the Internet was consumed by the Instagram post of Louise Linton, an actress, producer, and a woman who happens to be the newly married wife of the Trump administration’s Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin.Â
On Instragram she had posted a photo of herself and her husband exiting a federal government plane in Kentucky. On the post she detailed the designer brands she was wearing: Hermès, Roland Mouret, Tom Ford and Valentino.
But it was Linton’s response to a comment from Jennifer Miller that drew the spotlight.
She called her Instagram critic “adorably out of touch,” while bragging that she and her husband contribute more than Miller to the economy and the nation, in both taxes and “self-sacrifice.”
Miller talked with CNN Tuesday.
“I was frustrated already by some stories I had just read about the Secret Service running out of overtime money because of the excesses of the administration’s travel,” she says, explaining why she chose to comment.
“And then I saw this woman who I didn’t know who she was. I knew who the treasury secretary was, so I assumed it was his wife, getting off of a government plane for what I assumed was a government trip and basically advertising for all of these European, you know, high-end brands that your average person couldn’t afford, especially anyone in Kentucky where they were visiting, one of the poorest states in our country,” she added.
“If I had any respect for her, it probably would have been hurtful, because she was very condescending and very — she made a lot of assumptions about me and my husband and my life and my family,” Miller says.
Meanwhile, Miller tells CNN she is using her new fame to help raise money for a friend who’s recently had a stroke.
Perhaps Louise Linton would like to donate?
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