> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Steve Mnuchin’s Photos with Dollar Bills Are Everything That’s Wrong with the World - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/steve-mnuchins-photos-with-dollar-bills-are-everything-thats-wrong-with-the-world/ - Published: 2017-11-15T21:46:38.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:40:37.000Z - Description: The Treasury Secretary and his wife walked into the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in DC, which may sound like a joke. Actually, it is. - Author: Hrag Vartanian - Tags: In Brief, Steven Mnuchin, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3) > Not a Parody: These two bring the worst optics since the taxpayer-funded eclipse vacation to Fort Knox. Oh, that was them, too.[https://t.co/Fn3coj4tdr](https://t.co/Fn3coj4tdr?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/crooksandliars/status/930887636599889920?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) When a US Treasury Secretary visited the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC to see his (it’s always been a man) signature on the new bills, it’s nothing more than a minor news item that represents a changing of the guard. But not during the Trump administration. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton are special, very very special. So special I think it’s safe to say they’re in the 1% of extra special: > This is real [pic.twitter.com/wX2gy5xlWf](https://t.co/wX2gy5xlWf?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/yashar/status/930876087541882882?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) Yes, you can’t make this up because it is “Let Them Eat Cake” (while I “grab them by the …”) America. This is going viral, but thankfully the internet is on it. I should also remind you this isn’t one of the worst things [Mnuchin](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-expenses/treasury-watchdog-finds-mnuchins-private-jet-trips-broke-no-law-idUSKBN1CA2SY?ref=hyperallergic.com) or [Linton](http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-louise-linton-memoir-20160706-snap-htmlstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) have done. Presenting memes that may (here’s to hoping) make you feel better about all this: > Fixed it. [pic.twitter.com/bG2OxfUbtx](https://t.co/bG2OxfUbtx?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — ElElegante101 (@skolanach) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/skolanach/status/930904727377797120?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) https://twitter.com/owillis/status/930879391533535233?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref\_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrooksandliars.com%2F2017%2F11%2Ftwitter-goes-nuts-mnuchin-and-his-trophyhttps://twitter.com/moorehn/status/930905881184755713 > Picking out wallpaper for the cognac-swirling room [pic.twitter.com/gAqp6wostD](https://t.co/gAqp6wostD?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/AndyRichter/status/930880045538729984?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > 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](https://t.co/3fGXmJti6c?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Christopher Ingraham (@\_cingraham) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/%5Fcingraham/status/930875013648887808?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > If you squint this could be Taylor Swift meeting fans in Target [pic.twitter.com/vwlZSjoO0t](https://t.co/vwlZSjoO0t?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — emily bell (@emilybell) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/emilybell/status/930902574882082817?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > Mnuchin: We need to fight the perception that we're just a couple of out-of-touch plutocrats > Treasury PR person: Hold on boss I've got just the thing [pic.twitter.com/uFT2vGzujw](https://t.co/uFT2vGzujw?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Christopher Ingraham (@\_cingraham) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/%5Fcingraham/status/930875890166153216?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/930880511161102339 > [pic.twitter.com/nByICtQB7C](https://t.co/nByICtQB7C?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/status/930882195014733824?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > Why do Treasury Sec Mnuchin and his wife insist on posing for photos that make them look like Bond villains? [pic.twitter.com/2auZr3LGoP](https://t.co/2auZr3LGoP?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/930874959425089536?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > Steve Mnuchin and his wife show off their new line of luxury toilet paper [pic.twitter.com/aoKa6WM0Ka](https://t.co/aoKa6WM0Ka?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — jordan (@JordanUhl) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/930878752254459905?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) https://twitter.com/owillis/status/930892367175045120 > Why do Louise Linton and Steve Mnuchin look like they're on the way to close down an orphanage? [pic.twitter.com/s3zyAHQhch](https://t.co/s3zyAHQhch?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/MikeBeauvais/status/930879451876986881?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > So much going on in this photo but I am shocked to find out Steven Mnuchin’s wife killed Han Solo [pic.twitter.com/Ic2GBIemGC](https://t.co/Ic2GBIemGC?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Dusty (@DustinGiebel) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/DustinGiebel/status/930876158316605441?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > Who wore it better? [pic.twitter.com/aZ5Uwjtef6](https://t.co/aZ5Uwjtef6?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — David Corn (@DavidCornDC) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/930879653283291138?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > [#Mnuchin](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mnuchin?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [pic.twitter.com/eeVcxaJJ8p](https://t.co/eeVcxaJJ8p?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Jade Helm Recruit (@TheFreak5000) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/TheFreak5000/status/930878095976009728?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) And finally: > Caption contest [pic.twitter.com/oxfqS4pGKF](https://t.co/oxfqS4pGKF?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Jason Zweig (@jasonzweigwsj) [November 15, 2017](https://twitter.com/jasonzweigwsj/status/930907602191552512?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)