Obama spokesman Josh Earnest acknowledged that it was “good news” that Trump’s team had persuaded Carrier to change its plan to ship those jobs to Mexico, but made sure to tell reporters that Trump hadn't come close to President Obama’s “high standard” for creating similar jobs.
Earnest said that “if [Trump] is successful in doing that 804 more times, then he will meet the record number of manufacturing jobs” created during Obama’s eight years in office.