Twitter Slams Mnuchin, Linton for Posing With Sheets of Cash: ‘Look Like Bond Villains’

The Twitterverse has quite a lot to say over today’s photos from Steve Mnuchin‘s tour through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

The Treasury Secretary was joined by his wife Louise Linton and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza when they observed the currency production process at the bureau’s printing plant. The signatures of the Treasury Secretary and Treasurer appear on every United States paper bill, so Mnuchin and Carranza used the opportunity to sign the new $1 bills.

During the tour, Mnuchin and Linton posed for a few photos of themselves holding up the money:

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin his wife Louise Linton look at the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza’s signatures, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in Washington. (AP Photo/@Jacquelyn_M) pic.twitter.com/UKdBbEvYpF

— Michael B Kelley (@MichaelBKelley) November 15, 2017

What happened next? Well, Twitter observers thought these pictures made the couple look out of touch oligarchs who could’ve walked out of a James Bond movie.

Find someone who looks at you the way Louise Linton looks at Steve Mnuchin holding a sheet of dollar bills with his name on them pic.twitter.com/3fGXmJti6c

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 15, 2017

Picking out wallpaper for the cognac-swirling room pic.twitter.com/gAqp6wostD

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 15, 2017

Me at Chipotle when they tell me guac is extra: pic.twitter.com/79DYOl8arT

— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) November 15, 2017

“Look! Money! My absolute favorite!” https://t.co/wRqs72aQcR

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 15, 2017

Exquisite timing as Republicans argue their tax cut is not for the wealthy–> https://t.co/ri9Gznprhq

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 15, 2017

Damn…1year too late- this would have been one heck of an engagement photo https://t.co/S3xNYCEIJN

— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) November 15, 2017

Well Hello, Louise. https://t.co/tYE693XxQy

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) November 15, 2017

[sound of a thousand couples screaming in rage that they didn’t get to dress up as this for Halloween] pic.twitter.com/SvJFbmQxw2

— Allison Kilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) November 15, 2017

this is also the first time mr and mrs mnuchin have ever held $1 bills pic.twitter.com/tRky8GXNkD

— David Mack (@davidmackau) November 15, 2017

Steve Mnuchin gets a preview of life as a millionaire under the GOP tax plan https://t.co/bOPsE8ZuQS

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 15, 2017

Is … she TRYING to dress like the villain in a dystopic sci-fi teen novel about a world where oligarchs rule with an iron fist?

— Maggie Koerth-Baker (@maggiekb1) November 15, 2017

this picture.https://t.co/bdqgfhAJwR

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 15, 2017

So we now have The Trophy Wife posing with the new currency? This tone deaf clown Mnuchin and Marie Antoinette-Mnuchin should be chased out of our country: https://t.co/J5H6kGo1sR

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 15, 2017

Whichever staffer it is who did not throw his or her body in the way of this photo should be fired immediately — https://t.co/h0ZzSRxNUr

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 15, 2017

Why do Treasury Sec Mnuchin and his wife insist on posing for photos that make them look like Bond villains? pic.twitter.com/2auZr3LGoP

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 15, 2017

“Look carefully, Mr. Bond. Flawless. Just like my plan. A pity you won’t be here to see it.” https://t.co/LuX9Fkm7xo

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 15, 2017

… are they trying to look like Bond villains? I mean, I understand that’s an amazing moment but still…

They look like Bond villains. https://t.co/TWRt7KhsAT

— Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) November 15, 2017

This wouldn’t be the first time Mnuchin and Linton got wrapped up in a moment of bad optics. Earlier this year, Linton apologized for going on boastful tirade about her family’s wealth after being criticized over a photo of herself and her husband disembarking from a government plane.

[Image via Associated Press]

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