First ladies are bad enough, and the recent habit of referring to the wife of the vice president as the second lady is nauseating. The first Mrs. Trump does have a point: From a certain point of view, Melania is the third lady. But what the hell is Steven Mnuchin's wife? The eighth or ninth lady? Mnuchin, formerly of Goldman Sachs, is pure Wall Street malignity in concentrated form, a guy who looks like he was born wearing a blue suit and braces. And that, in itself, is okay: A little Scrooge McDuck–style sphincter-clenching is kind of what you want in a Treasury secretary ...
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