Like Bond villains: What happened when Steven Mnuchin and his wife posed with a sheet of money
Source: washpost
By Eli Rosenberg November 15 at 8:14 PM
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.............................For many, there was something comical about the picture of the couple, no strangers to accusations of flaunting their wealth and privilege. Mnuchin holds the sheet on both sides, a smile on his face. His wife standings behind him, her hand on the sheet's corner.
Only way this could be worse would be if Linton and Mnuchin were lighting cigars with flaming dollar bills, wrote the writer James Surowiecki.
Just a friendly reminder that the GOP wants to raise taxes on the middle class & take health insurance away from millions of Americans so people like Louise Linton and Steven Mnuchin can get a tax cut, wrote another.
Many said the optics of the photograph lent the two the aura of a pair of Hollywood villains. Perhaps it was Lintons sharp stare and long black gloves. Clad in all black, Linton clasped the sheet of money the way a royal might hold her hand to be kissed.
Why do Treasury Sec Mnuchin and his wife insist on posing for photos that make them look like Bond villains? wrote CNBC reporter Christina Wilkie.
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Johnny McNulty?Verified account @JohnnyMcNulty
Everyone's focused on Steve Mnuchin & the sheet of money but no one's talking about how his wife has been murdering Toons in The Dip.
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Brian J. Karem?Verified account @BrianKarem
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Wonder how long it will take for this picture to make its way onto Democratic ads targeting the GOP tax bill criticized for favoring the wealthy? Same couple, by the way, who spent $800,000 public funds for questionable
air travel. @tedlieu @realDonaldTrump
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,791 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,768 posts)the reason for the photo op. As the cutline provided by AP says:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Dulcinea
(6,700 posts)Last I checked, she's not a Treasury official.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,421 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,112 posts)KT2000
(20,609 posts)of these idiots.
BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)on my Thanksgiving table, both with apples in their mouths. EAT THE RICH!
Upthevibe
(8,115 posts)...I just have no words.....
machoneman
(4,018 posts)Skittles
(153,318 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,396 posts)Images such as these will help bring about the demise of capitalism. The sooner the better.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)A photo of The creep and his creepy wife with a sheet of bills. So what?
They seem goofy in love, together often, which is actually the only non creepy thing about them.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)#4? Maybe she wants photographic proof of the marriage, for divorce court? A "handsome guy" such as this Mnuchin is much too sexy to stop at only 4 wives. There are many more women out there for him to marry.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)He seems to have a peculiarly tin ear for reactions to his antics and words. Yet in college he was head of the Yale Daily News which probably required a lot of social appeal. He wa tapped by Skull and Bones but being head of the paper was usually sufficient for that. He lived in the old Taft Hotel with 2 roommates rather than in a dorm, very odd. I would have thought that broke Yale rules for an unmarried student. He is a very strange person. But again as John Oliver never misses a chance to point out, a real looker.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and something like this just seems beyond tone deaf
JohnnyRingo
(18,699 posts)I wouldn't trust any of the money junkies in this admin around our gold.
Nitram
(22,977 posts)have posed for similar photos. To me, it looks like a harmless photo op.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,502 posts)tRump and his kids get all the 100s.