Our president-elect, Donald “I’m a con man” Trump, made headlines last week with his assertion that he had saved the day by giving a huge welfare check to Carrier and saved bigly amounts of jobs in Indianapolis. It turns out that was bullshit. He didn’t save over a thousand jobs, even though the New York Times allowed Trump to spin his big numbers initially. And now the Washington Post is reporting about Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, which represents Carrier workers.

Jones, president of the United Steelworkers 1999, which represents Carrier employees, felt optimistic when Trump announced last week that he’d reached a deal with the factory’s parent company, United Technologies, to preserve 1,100 of the Indianapolis jobs — until the union leader heard from Carrier that only 730 of the production jobs would stay and 550 of his members would lose their livelihoods, after all.

At the Dec. 1 meeting, where Trump was supposed to lay out the details, Jones hoped he would explain himself.

“But he got up there,” Jones said Tuesday, “and, for whatever reason, lied his a-- off.”