You plebes can’t even fathom how hard it is being this rich.

MNUCHIN’S WIFE GOES FULL MARIE ANTOINETTE IN INSTAGRAM MELTDOWN

The millionaire wife of the millionaire Treasury secretary bragged about how much they pay in taxes and accused a critic of being “adorably out of touch.”

Prior to January 20, 2017, there was a lamentable lack of social-media scandals involving our public servants in the federal government. Then Donald Trump moved into the White House and, of course, everything changed. Now, we’ve come to expect that the president of the United States will go on late-night rants when he is feeling piqued, attacking everything from North Korea to media outlets to retailers who stopped selling his adult daughter’s handbags, occasionally deploying ALL CAPS to signal his seriousness or scare quotes to underscore his contempt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the tone set by the president seems to have trickled down to his Cabinet members and their spouses, too. For instance, whereas in times past, the wife of the Treasury secretary might have felt an obligation to not lash out at an Instagram commenter in a diatribe boasting about her vast wealth, now.....