“I mean all of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women anymore,” Trump told the audience in Spokane. “We may raise our voice. You know what? Women get it better than we do folks. Alright? They get it better than we do.”

In a return to his refrain that “there is nobody that has more respect for women than me,” Trump added that “there is nobody, or certainly very few, that have promoted women within my big company [more] than I have.”

Mentioning that he probably should not being saying this, the billionaire businessman said he has gone as far as paying women working for him more than men doing comparable jobs.