On Thursday, Labor Secretary Wilbur Ross committed a gaffe when he suggested that he said that he could not understand how unpaid federal workers needed to go to food banks.
President Donald Trump defended the comments, suggesting that unpaid workers could simply go to the grocery store and get food on informal credit.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper laid into Trump and Ross in a segment titled "Let Them Eat Wall" Thursday night.
Specifically, he highlighted Ross' $600 custom velvet slippers with the seal of the Treasury Department on them.
"I'm not kidding, that actually happened," Cooper said. "I don't think even Mr. Burns on The Simpsons wears slippers like that."
Cooper then did the math on Ross' $700 million net worth.
"To him 800,000 unpaid public servants are, essentially, a rounding error," Cooper said, pointing out that Ross could for 20,000 years on a TSA screener's salary.
"Wilbur Ross was watching The Andy Griffith Show and Barney Fife didn't have work and went to the local grocery store and everybody knows Barney Fife, and they all know him at the local banks, so of course they gave him a mortgage, they gave him a loan, they gave him free groceries," Cooper said.
Watch below.
