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Donald Trump Disappears After CNBC Drops MAJOR ‘Carrier Corp’ Bombshell (DETAILS)
By Harper Cicely - December 9, 2016

Carrier will reportedly lose many of the 800 jobs President-elect Donald J. Trump promised he would “save” at the manufacturer’s Indianapolis plant. On Friday, CNN reported that the company’s corporate parent, United Technologies, has admitted that their $16 million investment in Carrier will eventually bring in robots to replace a lot of those jobs.

CEO of United Technologies, Greg Hayes, said during an interview with CNBC earlier this week:

‘We’re going to … automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive. Is it as cheap as moving to Mexico with lower cost labor? No.’

‘But we will make that plant competitive just because we’ll make the capital investments there. But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.’

The company’s decision not to move to Mexico and continue its manufacturing operations in the United States will save nearly 800 of the 1400 jobs, but United Technologies declined to disclose how many, or when, the 800 jobs will be replaced by automation.

United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones said that the president-elect “lied his a** off” when he took credit in saving 1,100 jobs. When, in the first place, 300 of those jobs were never scheduled to be lost and hundreds of employees at Carrier are still scheduled to be laid off.

And of course, just like any other time something is said or done that hurts the Orange Man’s feelings, Trump went on a Twitter tirade against the Carrier Union leader and posted a pair of Tweets saying that Jones “has done a terrible job representing workers” and that “if United Steelworkers was any good they would have kept those jobs in Indiana.”

During an interview with NBC on Thursday, Jones responded to the president-elect’s attack saying that he stood by his word and had no regrets about anything he said of Trump.

‘I’m not offended or anything else by his comments, and they really don’t faze me one way or another.’

This is just one more disappointment to add to Trump’s list of broken promises, and he hasn’t even officially made it into the Oval Office yet. Definitely makes you wonder what will be added to this list next.

In the video below, courtesy of YouTube, A Carrier employee calls Trump out on his lie of “saving” jobs: