and propelled to victory a grassroots movement the likes of which the world has never seen before. this is what they say. today on one of the networks they said, maybe andrew jackson. i was like when was that? like 1838? and somebody else said well that was great but nothing like what happened here. so it really has been fun. and more importantly, i heard mike saying about what happened today in indiana, we re going to do that all over the country. we re going to do it all over the country. carrier, thank you carrier. today we made history and how to the real work begins. that is the second reason that i m here today. i m going to discuss our action
trump. almost about a week to the day after the election. he picked up the phone. called the chairman of the parent company and just asked them o reconsider their decision to move jobs to mexico from here in indiana. does that win over more people? he said i don t care if it s not presidential. i like picking up the phone. it is who he is. the reason why people voted for him. because he s different. because he doesn t follow the rules. that could hurt him, depending on the forum but it also could help. like when he s one ceo talking to another ceo saying you got do this differently. you asked david whether or not the optics could be any better. e created those optics. of course. i cannot even imagine that part of the conversation was not listen, you do this, i m going to come there. it will be my first trip. and carrier logos behind me and i m going make this happen.
for him because of the promises. and many are coming around to the idea that they want him to have victories and successes with things like obamacare. and the air-conditioning and carrier and such. they was very thankful to them today for what they did. if you look at his speech earlier. he was saying thank you to a lot of people and the worker and people back stauj. he talked about the wall today. he said there are going to be doors in it. people are going to come in legally. and this is the part where you are now seeing, people are going to completely under i think you are going to see a little bit of hey we won let s enjoy it but i got a lot of work to get done and when you say we won. obviously a lot of people won. in that arena these are going to be thousands of the people who are die hard crump supporters but watching around the country are going to be a lot of people who aren t. and we re still at the fact that
people. and i think donald trump will fix those structural problems. there is no question. and the proof i have is that carrier was offered similar incentive bis the state of indiana. they didn t take it because they didn t believe in the philosophy behind president obama but they believe in the philosophy behind donald trump or or they are scared of president donald trump who s going to control the defense budget of which a vast majority of united technologies business comes from. you are going to look at what, $68 million versus i don t know how many tens of billions at stake here. so that makes sense. totally makes sense. in business what you call a lost leader. you expend money knowing you are going to lose money knowing eventually that is going to help you make a lot more money. the argument at carrier right now is really the divide in america at in point. and here in new york as we re sitting around these tables we re talking about how a band aide right now in a macro sen
about the parent company of carrier, united technologies, does a lot of contracting with the federal government. sunland, trump and his supporters are saying this is proof he delivers on his promises. i know this was very important to him after he won to get this carrier keel done. but he actually revealed this was a promise that he didn t mean or he didn t intend to keep at first. here is what he said today. he said something to the effect that no we re not leaving. because donald trump promised us that we re not leaving. and i never thought i made that promise. and then they played my statement. and i said carrier will never leave. but that was like a euphemism, i was talk about about all companies from here on in. and he was reminded when he was watching a piece on the