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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Sometimes you'll have leaders of other countries criticizing him. Because he is running the most powerful country in the world and if he's unhinged over some guy in Indiana making valid criticisms, how is he going to handle it if a foreign leader, of either one of our allies or enemies, makes criticisms of him?
These things are not said in a vacuum.
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Right, so that work both ways, if leaders of other countries can criticize him, he can certainly respond back. If President Trump has to be concerned of the repercussions of him criticizing another leader, than that other leader will have even greater concerns about criticizing Trump openly since Trump likely is much more powerful.
And even President Obama wasn't particularly friendly with Duterte after Duterte insulted him.
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Trump essentially bribed Carrier to save 730 jobs. He then lied to people that it was over 1000 jobs--despite the fact that 300+ of those jobs were never a threat to leave the country anyway.
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Those 300 were going to move to another state, which is still a net loss to the community and Indiana. And for that minimal price per job, and given the huge amount of unwanted attention that Carrier got, it's seems clear that Trump and Indiana did well.
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This is not a huge win, and he's touting it as if it were a major victory.
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But it's far better than what it was before, a huge loss for Indiana.