Donald Trump blasted NBC News on Wednesday, accusing the news outlet of “going out of its way” to report that the president-elect is not responsible for some companies’ decisions to keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
“FAKE NEWS,” he tweeted. Trump also specifically ripped NBC’s “Today” show.
A Tuesday NBC News story detailed how companies like General Motors and Wal-Mart appear to be billing normal or planned job creation as newly spurred to build a good relationship with Trump and avoid the wrath of the president-elect’s Twitter feed.
{mosads}And “Today” on Wednesday morning had a segment discussing how some companies’ job creation plans have been months in the making and are not directly influenced by Trump.
Trump campaigned for president on a platform of bringing manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and reducing the country’s trade deficit with countries like China and Mexico.
He scored his first major victory as president-elect in December, when air-conditioner-manufacturing giant Carrier announced that it would keep about 1,000 jobs in the U.S., rather than outsourcing them to Mexico.