But if he's able to keep those Carrier jobs here in America, why is that a bad thing?

Keeping jobs in the US without sacrificing fair wages/benefits, workplace safety, and environmental protection would not be a bad thing. But I can imagine ways to 'keep jobs' that would not, in the larger picture, be entirely positive...

I guess what I didn't articulate very well was my confusion at the title of the OP. To me, it came off as there being something wrong with trying to keep American jobs in America.

He also said he kept a Ford plant in the US, yet Ford claimed Trump had nothing to do with the decision either way. Why is that a bad thing?

My comments are more about the tone of the OP, which to me, came across not as being pissed that Trump was taking credit, but pissed that the jobs might stay here instead of going to Mexico.

he took credit for Ford and that was bullshit too

he knows his idiot fans will believe ANYTHING he says

However, I'm still confused as to why it would be a bad thing to keep those jobs here rather than them going to Mexico.

So what if Trump is lying and has nothing to do with them staying (if they do stay)? To me, the important point would be that they stay.

undeserved credit.

But the point of the OP wasn't that it was bad Trump was taking undeserved credit, it was that it was bad that the jobs might not go to Mexico.

Keeping jobs in the US is good. Do I believe Trump is doing a damn thing? No.

Mexicans don't deserve to make air conditioners?

I've been on DU since its inception, and I cannot count the number of threads lamenting the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Now, simply because you don't like the person claiming to do something about it, you don't want those jobs.

What a childish, unserious attitude. Here is a link to a video that might interest you:

Nice save in the middle of your performance. Allegations of our own righteousness are important.

Don't understand.

Even if it was 2007, 9 years isn't enough for you?

Mexico is home to a diverse manufacturing industry where a wide range of products are assembled in the country and exported to countries around the globe. The automotive and aerospace industries in the country have experienced significant growth over the years, and both are currently thriving. However, there is another Mexican production industry growing as well: heating and cooling.

https://offshoregroup.com/industries/hvac-manufacturing-in-mexico/

This is what he will do.

As a tweet from the union rep said, perhaps Mr. Trump would be aware the workers whose jobs are being shipped south made furnaces, not air conditioners.

it wasn't the Air Conditioner manufacturing that were being moved but rather the Heating units. Something that most of the Mexican people hardly have much use for

What that all means I have no idea

I believe it would be on the condition of union give-backs, e.g., salary, pension, health benefits, working hours, overtime, etc.

Trump would claim the credit and a very bad precedent would be made for other companies to blackmail workers to accept less than they have now.

The unions would have to match Mexican labor costs.

money for themselves, they don't. Nobody else does, under those circumstances of screwing over American workers

and makes the case for why working people vote republican.

you are not helping the Democratic party.

You MAY just inspire people to vote for the other party.

Not at our expense.

It's not our duty to provide jobs in developing nations, especially if we have Americans out of work.

Posts like yours is the reason Democrats lost this election. You care more about jobs in Mexico than jobs in America.

Someone has to take a loss here.