GG Trump/Pence, you saved Christmas!
INDIANAPOLIS — By the time the Rust Belt turned red on election night, Carrier had to know the call was coming.
After all, Donald J. Trump had been vowing for months on the campaign trail to call the head of Carrier from the Oval Office and hit the company with huge tariffs if it followed through on its decision to close two Indiana factories and move more than 2,000 jobs to Mexico.
“This is so easy,” he told cheering crowds last spring. “It’s not presidential when the president calls up the head of a damn air-conditioning company, but it’s so much fun for me.”
In the end, it wasn’t that easy. The deal with Carrier that Mr. Trump came here Thursday to claim credit for will save at least 1,100 jobs, and Carrier will receive multiyear state economic incentives worth a total of $7 million, which were negotiated by Mike Pence, Indiana’s governor and soon to be vice president.