--- title: Louise Linton: Jennifer Miller Stands by Critical Comments description: The woman who criticized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's wife Louise Linton on Instagram says she's still out of touch canonical: https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-24T00:19:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:08:11.369Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She's Still Out of Touch og:description: "I don't think she has any idea what everyday Americans deal with" og:url: https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b9ed1ac9d6f994/6988dab722fb85becee22816/rts1cu9h.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FILE PHOTO: US Treasury Secretary nominee Mnuchin and Linton arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She's Still Out of Touch twitter:description: "I don't think she has any idea what everyday Americans deal with" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b9ed1ac9d6f994/6988dab722fb85becee22816/rts1cu9h.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She Doesn't Know 'What Everyday Americans Deal With'  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Aug 24, 2017 12:19 AM UTC  Treasury Secretary nominee Stephen Mnuchin and fiancee Louise Linton arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. Treasury Secretary nominee Stephen Mnuchin and fiancee Louise Linton arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017.Saul Loeb—AFP  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Aug 24, 2017 12:19 AM UTC The woman who criticized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton on Instagram as “deplorable” for hashtagging her designer clothing as she stepped off a government plane says Linton has no clue what it’s like to be a regular American. “I don’t think she has any idea what everyday Americans deal with, especially when it comes to economic struggles,” Jennifer Miller, a 45-year-old healthcare product manager and mother of three from Oregon. [wrote in an op-ed Wednesday on CNN.](http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/opinions/linton-instagram-opinion-miller/index.html) “Since her husband is secretary of the treasury, it behooves her to find out.” Linton responded to Miller’s comment on Instagram with a lengthy post, in which she called her “out of touch,” sentiments Miller said she found “laughable.” > [](https://twitter.com/margarita/status/899806489686179840) “To see someone in her position — married to a wealthy former Wall Street executive who is now Secretary of the Treasury and affects national economic policy — hashtag her luxury purchases when so many Americans are suffering economically is, well, deplorable.,” Miller wrote. “She chose to respond in a way that only clarified her privilege by extolling her wealth and position.” After the exchange between Miller and Linton went viral, Linton changed her Instagram settings to private. She apologized on Tuesday, [issuing a statement through her publicist](http://time.com/4911605/louse-linton-instagram-post-apology/) in which she categorized her comments as “inappropriate and highly insensitive.” Linton’s publicist did not respond to an additional request for comment about Miller’s op-ed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/"},"headline":"Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She Doesn't Know 'What Everyday Americans Deal With'","datePublished":"2017-08-24T00:19:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:08:11.369Z","description":"\"I don't think she has any idea what everyday Americans deal with\"","url":"https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/","keywords":["Social Media","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b9ed1ac9d6f994/6988dab722fb85becee22816/rts1cu9h.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b9ed1ac9d6f994/6988dab722fb85becee22816/rts1cu9h.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FILE PHOTO: US Treasury Secretary nominee Mnuchin and Linton arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol","caption":"FILE PHOTO: US Treasury Secretary nominee Mnuchin and Linton arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/social-media/","name":"Social Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4913508/louise-linton-jennifer-miller-instagram-spat/","name":"Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She Doesn't Know 'What Everyday Americans Deal With'"}}]}] ```