Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Louise Linton, was being blasted by social media users on Monday night for posting a picture of herself exiting a government plane in designer clothes — which she flaunted using hashtags.
While it was mostly lighthearted, the online outrage seemed to get to the Scottish actress — seeing how she scolded a woman who called her out on Instagram.
“Glad we could pay for your little getaway,” the user said.
To which Linton replied, “Cute! 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? 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. You’re adorably out of touch. Thanks for the passive aggressive nasty comment. Your kids look very cute. Your life looks cute. I know you’re mad but deep down you’re really nice and so am I. Sending me passive aggressive Instagram comments isn’t 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’s fab!”
The photo that Linton posted on Monday showed her and Sec. Mnuchin stepping off a government plane following a “day trip” to Kentucky.
Worried that she would delete it, several Twitter users screenshotted both the picture and Linton’s comment immediately after spotting them.
Their fears eventually came to fruition, with people claiming on social media that she did, in fact, get rid of the post on Monday night — and made her page private — after word got out about her tirade.
“Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton has deleted this Instagram [post], which contained tagged designers and some interesting comments,” tweeted CNN reporter Betsy Klein.
Linton, 36, married Mnuchin back in June after meeting him at a wedding in 2013.
While the treasury secretary, 54, tends to keep things business-casual, Linton is famous for her over-the-top outfits and ensembles — many of which cost well over $10,000 when counting clothes and accessories.
The actress made sure to tag all the brands she was wearing on Monday for day trip to the Bluegrass State. They included #rolandmouret, #tomford, #hermesscarf, and #valnetinorockstudheels.
“Quite the populist hashtags on Louise Linton’s Instagram (Mnuchin’s wife), following her taxpayer-funded day trip to Kentucky,” joked Matt McDermott, a pollster and Associate Director at Whitman Insight Strategies.
“Curiously this Instagram post is no longer available. F–king hedge funders,” wrote one Twitter user.
“Louise Linton is a hideous person, growing fat off of our tax dollars,” another said.
At one point during the evening, someone even went so far as to change Linton’s Wikipedia page to reflect her IG comment.
“Never forget she posted this on Instagram,” the page read as of 10:30 p.m.