And he [Mr. Trump] claimed a victory last week when he struck a deal with Carrier's parent company, granting them $7m in tax cuts and incentives over 10 years.
In the CNN interview that preceded the enraged tweet by the president-elect, Mr Jones disputed Mr Trump's claim on the job figures because 550 jobs were still going overseas.
"Trump didn't tell the truth and I called him out," he said, saying the president-elect "overreacted".
He said that while the union was grateful to have 730 of its members keeping their jobs, Mr Trump had raised false hopes for hundreds of others when he wrongly claimed 1,100 jobs were not moving abroad.
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Salena Zito, writing in the Atlantic magazine, summed up Trump's election campaign by saying: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."
But can the press really stop taking literally what the president-elect says?
That's quite a dilemma for the next four years
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