The White House is praising President-elect Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier Corp. to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the United States, but is trying to play down the significance of the agreement.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Trump “deserves credit” for brokering the deal, which the air conditioning company says will keep the jobs in Indiana instead of moving them to Mexico.

But Earnest says Trump would have to be successful at repeating that feat 804 more times to meet President Barack Obama’s record. The spokesman says Obama has created 805,000 jobs in manufacturing and that figure would be much higher if existing jobs that have been protected are factored in.

(AP)