--- 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: 2026-10-08T09:30:50.684Z 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mom Who Criticized Louise Linton: She Doesn't Know 'What Everyday Americans Deal With' > Sponsored content. 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Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, blasted as "adorably out of touch" a person who criticized her Instagram post in which Linton depicted her designer-label outfit._  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Aug 24, 2017 12:19 AM UTC Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, blasted as "adorably out of touch" a person who criticized her Instagram post in which Linton depicted her designer-label outfit.  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. ## Transcript I really thought that it was just another example of the excess, had caused the issue. Because I had just been reading about with the secret service budget over time and some of the other things that we have seen over the last few months. And it also Upset me because here was a person getting off the government airplane. On what I assume was a government trip, with a government official. Honestly didn't know who se was. I assume she was the secretary's wife, but didn't know her name or anything but to then be tagging everything she was wearing, with all this expensive European designers names just. Seemed ridiculous and, quite frankly, offended me as someone who paid for part of their trip. It was very ironic that she was calling me out of touch and assuming things about me and Just being so incredibly condescending and so incredibly rude. But, it really fit in with her original posts. 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