In his State of the Union address, President Obama tried to continue the myth that women are paid drastically less than men, but there’s a catch — he didn’t repeat the debunked claim that women earn 77 cents to the dollar that men earn.

Given his administration’s past attempts to persuade American women that they are vastly underpaid — while at the same time paying women in the White House less — it’s clear what Obama was going for when he said this Tuesday night: