Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, looks thrilled that her husband's signature made it onto the dollar bill. 
 
 Linton and Mnuchin posed with sheets of new $1 bills on Wednesday at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. The notes are the first to feature Mnuchin's signature, along with that of U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza, and are expected to enter circulation in December. 
 
 Linton was widely criticized earlier this year when she posted a photo on Instagram that showed her stepping off a government plane. She flaunted her designer wardrobe by tagging the designers she was wearing, then argued with a commenter who criticized her "getaway." 
 
 The photo kicked off an investigation into Mnuchin's use of government planes. 
 
 The Treasury Department's inspector general ultimately found no evidence of wrongdoing, but said the Trump administration had cut corners during the approval process for Mnuchin's trips. 
 
 On Wednesday, social media lit up with jokes about the wealthy couple's photo shoot. Before he joined the Trump team, Mnuchin worked in finance, with stints as a Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood movie producer. Linton is an actress. 
 
 The couple married over the summer, and they live in a D.C. mansion. 
 
 Picking out wallpaper for the cognac-swirling room pic.twitter.com/gAqp6wostD — Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 15, 2017 
 
 you cannot parody these folks pic.twitter.com/PfDXB0qXTp — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 15, 2017 ||||| Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, have already gotten in hot water more than once for acting like out-of-touch snobs whose primary hobby is wasting taxpayer money on their extravagant lifestyle. (Linton went so far as to label an Instagram picture of herself deboarding a government-funded private jet with the names of the numerous luxury products she’s depicted wearing in it.) Helpfully, as you can see above, they have now provided the media with a perfect distillation of their public image for use if and when Mnuchin is axed from the administration as a PR scapegoat after the backlash against Trump’s extremely rich-person-friendly tax bill reaches a fever pitch.
– If Louise Linton hoped to avoid future criticism for her luxury lifestyle, well, better luck next year. While touring the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, the Scottish actress posed with her husband, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, while holding a sheet of new $1 bills. The photograph was meant to celebrate the first time the signatures of Mnuchin and Treasurer Jovita Carranza appear on the bills, which are to enter circulation next month, reports CNN Money. But social media users couldn’t help but interpret it as the newlyweds continuing to flaunt their wealth—even if they were holding only $50—given the scandal over an Instagram photo that erupted in August and saw Linton likened to Marie Antoinette, per the Washington Post. The Instagram photo showed the couple leaving a government jet, Linton in head-to-toe designer clothes. When a user criticized the photo, Linton snapped back, but later apologized for being "condescending" and referred to the controversy as a wake-up call. Yet this latest photo, showing Linton in black gloves extending past her elbow, "is not going to help her reputation for being ostentatious," notes Slate, while the Post describes Linton as "(clasping) the sheet of money the way a royal might hold her hand to be kissed." "Why do Treasury Sec Mnuchin and his wife insist on posing for photos that make them look like Bond villains?" writes CNBC's Christina Wilkie. "Only way this could be worse would be if Linton and Mnuchin were lighting cigars with flaming dollar bills," adds writer James Surowiecki, per the Post. "Picking out wallpaper for the cognac-swirling room," Andy Richter captions the photo on Twitter.