Trump was asked during an early morning appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box about a proposed merger between the two airline giants.
“I don’t like it, no. I don’t mind mergers, I’d love someone to buy Spirit, as an example,” Trump said. “I’d love somebody to buy Spirit, it’s 14,000 jobs, and maybe the federal government should help that one out.”
“But with American it’s doing fine, and United is doing very well, I know the United people, they’re doing very well,” the president added. “I don’t like having them merge.”
Trump said that mergers could be problematic, citing issues that had arisen in the aerospace and defense industries.
“It’s just like all of these aerospace, defense companies and aerospace companies, we used to have hundreds of them, and now we have a very small number, and you get one bid, and it makes them lazy,” he said.
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