Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka delivered her highly anticipated speech Thursday night before the Republican National Convention. She used her speech to briefly push the gender pay gap myth and later that night CNN commentator, and Black Lives Matter supporter, Bakari Sellers tried to wield it against her father. “What she did do was, she gave a speech that was Hillary Clinton's speech,” he stated, “Donald Trump on his campaign pays his female staffers a third less than his men.”
Sellers continued, saying, “And I just think that is so ironic.”
But CNN commentator, and Trump supporter, Kayleigh McEnany didn’t stand for it. “No, he's comparing apples and Oranges,” she noted, “Because there are men in executive positions. They do get paid more than the women.”
Sellers didn’t seem like he understood the men versus women pay comparison was skewed, because men occupied more of the higher paying positions within the campaign. But that didn’t stop him from championing Hillary Clinton as the role model, “But Hillary Clinton pays them the same.”
McEnany reminded Sellers that Clinton has her own history of paying men more than women “But the foundation she’s in— has and the White House she worked in pays men more than women,” she said. She also said that they can go back and forth on the issue because the same math applies.
Yet Sellers kept insisting and saying Ivanka could fix it. “So, if she's [Ivanka] on the campaign and she believes in equal pay for equal work, she should take that back to the campaign,” he argued. He made it seem as though it was a common practice for Trump.
He counterpart wanted to give him a hand in understanding Trump:
I want to help you out cause you clearly missed some really big facts. Like the fact that the Trump organization has more female executives than the male executives. Maybe you tuned out during that part of the speech.