As Twitchy reported, Chelsea Clinton pulled in an annual $600,000 salary for her stellar work as an NBC News special correspondent. Because apparently she worked for NBC News. Who knew?
Anyway, it’s only natural for rubes like us to wonder: Why would she give up a cushy job like that? Well, as it turns out, she found that she just couldn’t care about money, no matter how hard she tried:
Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea says she couldn’t care less about money.
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told UK’s The Telegraph, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.
Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents.
Chelsea just couldn't get herself to care about money. What a special person http://t.co/Se7g7tsYMR
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) June 23, 2014
You know, she really is special.
YGBFKM RT @JGreenDC: This is something only a rich person could have the privilege to say http://t.co/vqdxHdUSUH
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/481105549178978306
If I were a Clinton child and married to an investment banker, I wouldn't care about money either. https://t.co/0QvitiYCUv
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 23, 2014
.@ChelseaClinton's theme song: http://t.co/paMjmnI23L
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 23, 2014
"Work for money? How gauche."http://t.co/ismJD9MrZu
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) June 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/481108685242892289
@redsteeze "I don't care about money," said @ChelseaClinton from her $10.5 million Gramercy Park apartment.
— Mike G (@goedharted) June 23, 2014
Chelsea Clinton: I'm going to inherit tens of millions and I married into money, but I just can't seem to care about it, gosh darn it.
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) June 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/481105155954585600
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/481105284765470721
She's 'ordinary' RT @redsteeze Woman who doesn't care about money accepted $600,000 for doing nothing. http://t.co/DLmKsOXk4l …
— Max Q ⚡ (@Randy_Shannon) June 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/Aaron_RS/status/481106028612685824
Funny. Like Chelsea Clinton, I tried not to care about money. But the bills kept coming anyway.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 23, 2014
I tried to care about money, but ugh, there was just so much of it.
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) June 23, 2014
@SonnyBunch mo money, mo problems.
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) June 23, 2014
Ain’t that the truth.
Mo money, mo problems. pic.twitter.com/gb8OSLARpX
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) June 23, 2014
Sing it, sister!
Someone help her stop talking. RT @mtredden: Woman living in $10.5 million apartment couldn't care less about money. http://t.co/pQeCRX4fbA
— Hillary Kelly (@HillaryKelly) June 23, 2014
Why? This is great! The more the Clintons say, the worse they sound.
@gabrielmalor We found someone who sounds more entitled and out of touch than Hillary.
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) June 23, 2014
Never really realized just how gauche the Clintons are…They hit nearly every stereotype of people with "new money".
— Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) June 23, 2014
Brutal Truth. –> RT @Matthops82: Romney didn't need taxpayer money to become rich…Hillary did.
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) June 23, 2014
Hey, speaking of Romney, anyone want to take a guess as to what would’ve happened had one of Mitt’s kids gone there?
One of the Romney sons says he tried but couldn't make himself care about money. https://t.co/0QvitiYCUv #UniteBlue #OutofTouch
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 23, 2014
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