Trump launches Twitter attack on Carrier Steel

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Trump Launches Tweet Attack on Carrier Steel Union Boss for Fact-Checking Him

President-elect Donald Trump pledged to be "so presidential you will be bored" during the election, but he continues to keep Americans on their toes after again taking to Twitter to battle his most recent critic.

Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers 1999, told NBC News that he had been harassed and threatened in the wake of Trump's latest attack — a broadside against Jones leadership of union workers at a Carrier manufacturing plant in Indiana that took center stage last week.

Jones has not been shy about telling publications that Trump broke his promise to save jobs at the Carrier plant, a pledge on which the president-elect campaigned.

Trump recently proclaimed that he helped save about 1,1000 jobs at the plant that were slated to be moved to Mexico, which is untrue. Instead, the deal saves closer to 800 positions, according to Jones. Carrier's parent company gets $7 million in tax cuts and incentives over 10 years.

Jones said Trump tried to take credit for 350 research and development jobs that were already planned to remain in Indiana.

Trump did not address the reasons for the feud directly, but instead stated via a tweet that Jones had done a "terrible job" and suggested that he was the reason companies were leaving the country.

Trump Launches Tweet Attack on Carrier Steel Union Boss for Fact-Checking Him - NBC News
 
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Perhaps he should make the deal before saying he could put 10,000 workers back to work when there are no contracts on the horizon.
 
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It's called 'trying to jump on the band wagon. Perhaps he should explain why 10,000 were laid off in the first place and he wasn't one of them. I would check to see what kind of bonus he.

Porky from the Ukraine got his picture taken with Putin, that doesn't mean Putin will ever be inviting him over for lunch. (Trump has already sent an envoy to Russia and he will be received by Putin with a smile and a warm handshake)
 
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He's sending all the conflicting messages of someone I wouldn't trust with sharp objects and darkened rooms. All anyone has to do is listen to him then read his following twit storms. That might be okay for a nut house resident - not for someone in charge of nuclear weapons.
 
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lone wolf said:
He's sending all the conflicting messages of someone I wouldn't trust with sharp objects and darkened rooms. All anyone has to do is listen to him then read his following twit storms. That might be okay for a nut house resident - not for someone in charge of nuclear weapons.
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Can they be launched via twitter?
 
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Only in your herring mind.

How Trumpesque of you to twist the statement to suit your spin cycle. Are you inclined to place a lot of faith in someone who says one thing to you and something else behind your back?
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I don't think what anybody says on twitter is a big deal. Twitter is not a big deal.
 
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You are a dummy if you thought the companies were being invited back. They can stay where they moved to and expect a 35% import tax to be levied on their products. The jobs being created are for new companies to start up in the US rather than leave China (or Mexico) and return to the US. There is a good possibility that the companies will only make products for use in America (and Canada hopefully) and exporting will be left to the companies that left so they could make the products cheaper. (and of poor quality)
 
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Check out if Carrier is a steel company or a company that makes furnaces and air conditioners. United Steelworkers is just the big-business (divested interest) union who represents them and probably knows very little of the product - much like Unifor knows much about railroads or Chevies
 
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