Name: Louise Linton.
Age: 36.
Appearance: Emma Noble meets Abi Titmuss meets all the blondes in Towie and Made in Chelsea.
The name sounds familiar. You may remember the Scottish actor from last year, when she published In Congo’s Shadow, a supposed memoir of her gap year in Zambia.
Oh, yes! It was a bit of a disaster, wasn’t it? Enough inconsistencies were pointed out – along with vociferous objections to the “white saviour” trope it cleaved to unceasingly – to cause her to withdraw it from sale.
Is she in the news because she has spent the year since doing astonishingly selfless charity work that has transformed her morally and spiritually and vouchsafed her some kind of redemptive ecstasy? Not quite. She posted a picture on Instagram of herself and new husband Steven Mnuchin – millionaire businessman and treasury secretary in the Trump administration – disembarking from a military jet after an official visit to Fort Knox to promote the president’s tax reforms, in which she hashtagged all the designer labels she was wearing.
A bit vulgar but not headline-worthy, surely? A poster, @jennimiller29, replied: “Glad we could pay for your little getaway #deplorable.”
I’m guessing that Linton did not reply with as much tact and diplomacy as you would hope? Even from the wife of a Trump politician? “Aw!!!” Linton wrote. “Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable!”
Oh well. Could have been worse. She continued …
Oh. “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?”
Ah. She went on. “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. [Curled bicep and a face blowing a kiss emojis].”
Is everyone connected to Trump contractually obliged to match exactly his degree of graceless piggery? It would seem so.
Did @jennimiller29 respond? On her own Instagram she wrote “According to my 20-second Google search, [Linton is] an aspiring Penthouse model who married an old rich guy in a wedding officiated by a homophobe and attended by other couples of similar age and beauty gaps. She says she’s a nice person. I doubt it. There weren’t any Nazi sympathizers at my wedding. #byelouise.”
Do say: “#byelouise.”
Don’t say: “#rolandmouret #tomford #hermesscarf #valentinorockstudheels.”
