{"id":81687,"date":"2017-08-22T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81687"},"modified":"2017-08-22T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:02:38","slug":"adorable-treasury-secretary-wife-lashes-out-at-deplorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81687","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Adorable&#8217; Treasury Secretary Wife Lashes Out At &#8216;Deplorable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mnuchin&#8217;s Trophy Wife Blasted After Instagram Spat Goes Viral<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin&#8217;s 36-year-old (he&#8217;s 52 btw) trophy wife Louise Linton has landed herself in a bit of hot water this morning after an epic social media rant against a taxpayer who took issue with one of her Instagram posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/12\/-1x-1%20%286%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/12\/-1x-1%20%286%29_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently @jennimiller29 didn&#8217;t appreciate Linton hastagging her entire expensive wardrobe (including #rolandmouret, #tomford, #hermesscarf, and #valnetinorockstudheels) while traveling on a taxpayer funded private plane,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-21\/mnuchin-visits-fort-knox-says-gold-safe\">during her husband&#8217;s trip to &#8220;check&#8221; if the gold at Fort Knox is still there<\/a>, which prompted the following snarky comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Glad we could pay for your little getaway.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/NorthmanTrader\/status\/899947580133711872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-08-22%2Fmnuchins-trophy-wife-blasted-after-instagram-spat-goes-viral<\/p>\n<p>And while most folks have learned to simply ignore the Twitter trolls, Linton apparently has not&#8230;which is great news for everyone else because it prompted the following epic rant in reply:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u201cCute! Aw!!! Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable! Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol.\u00a0<strong>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?<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day \u2018trip\u2019 than you did. Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you\u2019d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours.\u00a0<strong>You\u2019re adorably out of touch.<\/strong>\u00a0Thanks for the passive aggressive nasty comment.\u00a0<strong>Your kids look very cute. Your life looks cute. I know you\u2019re mad but deep down you\u2019re really nice and so am I.<\/strong>\u00a0Sending me passive aggressive Instagram comments isn\u2019t going to make life feel better. Maybe a nice message [sic], one filled with wisdom and hunanity [sic] would get more traction. Have a pleasant evening. Go chill out and watch the new game of thrones. It\u2019s fab!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/margarita\/status\/899806489686179840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-08-22%2Fmnuchins-trophy-wife-blasted-after-instagram-spat-goes-viral<\/p>\n<p>Others\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/08\/22\/mnuchins-wife-unleashes-instagram-fit-after-backlash\/\">quickly chimed in<\/a>: \u201cQuite the populist hashtags on Louise Linton\u2019s Instagram (Mnuchin\u2019s wife), following her taxpayer-funded day trip to Kentucky,\u201d joked Matt McDermott, a pollster and Associate Director at Whitman Insight Strategies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/12\/nintchdbpict000302289828_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"651\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuriously this Instagram post is no longer available. F\u2013king hedge funders,\u201d wrote one Twitter user. \u201cLouise Linton is a hideous person, growing fat off of our tax dollars,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/12\/gettyimages-632209368.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/12\/gettyimages-632209368_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At one point during the evening, someone even went so far as to change Linton\u2019s Wikipedia page to reflect her IG comment. \u201cNever forget she posted this on Instagram,\u201d the page read as of 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, in the end, it seems that only the President is permitted to post outlandish social media rants as Linton&#8217;s post has since been deleted and her account turned private.<\/p>\n<p><em>Link for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/women-az\/louise-linton-profile\">Linton&#8217;s Maxim photoshoot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-22\/mnuchins-trophy-wife-blasted-after-instagram-spat-goes-viral\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-22\/mnuchins-trophy-wife-blasted-after-instagram-spat-goes-viral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mnuchin&#8217;s Trophy Wife Blasted After Instagram Spat Goes Viral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}