Steven Mnuchin will surely regret this photo

(Image credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton were photographed Wednesday with a sheet of freshly printed one dollar bills and — wow, do they look happy or what?

It should be noted that the sheet of bills does bear Mnuchin's newly minted signature on them, so a little pride is to be expected. But Linton — aside from her lavish get-up for a trip to the Mint — seems to have a particular gift for playing the role of an oblivious millionaire, be it tagging her expensive wardrobe in Instagram photos, fighting with outraged commenters, or writing a very questionable memoir about her (debunked and disputed) travels in Africa.

Predictably, the picture of the wealthy couple is approaching meme status; some Twitter users, for example, have even pointed out the similarity between Linton's wardrobe and the attire of noted Sith Lord Kylo Ren. Kelly O'Meara Morales

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.