Donald Trump is not going to let anyone get away with saying he “lied his ass off.”
The president-elect slammed Carrier union leader Chuck Jones on Twitter after Jones claimed the billionaire had inflated the number of jobs he saved at Carrier.
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Jones is the president of the United Steelworkers 1999. He told the Washington Post that Trump lied when he said he had saved 1,100 Carrier jobs:
The union leader heard from Carrier that only 730 of the production jobs would stay and 550 of his members would lose their livelihoods, after all.
At the Dec. 1 meeting, where Trump was supposed to lay out the details, Jones hoped he would explain himself.
“But he got up there,” Jones said Tuesday, “and, for whatever reason, lied his a** off.”
The union leader later told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Trump only saved 800 jobs (730 production jobs + 70 office jobs), and that 550 jobs were still going to Mexico.
A union boss at Carrier says Trump isn't telling the truth about saving jobs there https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/8cSZalQ5AQ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 8, 2016
Twenty minutes after Jones’ interview, Trump bashed the union boss on Twitter, saying he has done a “terrible job” representing workers.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806660011904614408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Ten minutes after Trump’s tweet, an annoyed Jones called into CNN and said, “That wasn’t very damn nice.”
Jones added: “I was just calling him out on some of the things that he was less than honest with, and he evidently didn’t like it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Xrt5wFCNA
Burnett remarked that maybe Trump wasn’t upset by Jones’ criticism, but by his inflammatory rhetoric that Trump had “lied his ass off.”
An hour later, at 8:56 pm ET, Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806678853305384960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Not surprisingly, the reaction on Twitter was mixed, with detractors saying Trump was being immature and thin-skinned.
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But others applauded Trump for his efforts and asked: “How many jobs did Chuck Jones save?”
@CNN @ErinBurnett I did vote for Trump but this guy is a big baby. I am nervous for a real crisis and how he will tweet with it
— Todd (@tacman425) December 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/MisanthropeBob/status/806686990246756352
This was just vengeance by DJT because the union boss DARED to correct this numbers abt number of jobs saved
— Fran P (@FranP20) December 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/Vet4truth2016/status/806689211764117504
https://twitter.com/Americanpride01/status/806687157440147461
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