Steve Mnuchin, a multimillionaire former Goldman Sachs banker, said he had no idea that a photograph of him and his wife posing with a sheet of newly printed money would go viral this week. Steve Mnuchin and Louise Linton mocked for posing with dollars Read more“I guess I should take that as a compliment that I look like a villain in a great, successful James Bond movie,” the treasury secretary told Fox News on Sunday. Mnuchin had invited his wife to join him for what is usually a routine photo opportunity of a treasury secretary examining currency being printed with his signature. In the picture, Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, a Scottish actor, smile at the camera while holding a sheet of $1 bills. In 2016, before she married Mnuchin, Linton published a memoir of her gap year in Zambia, which was intensely criticized for its white savior tropes and what some critics said were blatant factual errors, sparking the hashtag #LintonLies.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2017 19:18 UTC