Opinion | Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saving Spirit Airlines?

President Obama’s auto rescue saved millions of jobs and was critical to economic recovery. Trump’s Spirit bailout is a waste of money. Read my take in @nytopinion.nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Republicans claim to support free markets, but Trump has interfered with private enterprise more than any recent president. Today in @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I explain why his most recent proposed intervention—the Spirit bailout—is financially unsound. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Op-ed: #Florida based Spirit Airlines should give up the ghost. Why is President Dementia Patient insistent on the govt saving it? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o... via @nytimes.com

Rattner's op-ed: a reminder that Obama and Dems bailed out U.S. automakers over shrieking Republican tantrums, saved upper Midwest from economic cataclysm, divested by 2013, and three years later Dems lost because they were "out of touch" with the working class www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Bailouts. Spirit Airlines, the auto industry and Trump. Opinion piece: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Today's gift link. "Republicans who were quick to denounce the Obama administration's rescue of the auto industry have been mostly silent when it has come to Mr. Trump's more numerous adventures." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Not sure which is his worse - his hypocrisy, his stupidity, or his rush to do stupid things www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

"While Mr. Obama was saving an enormous industry crucial to the economic health of the Midwest, Mr. Trump is talking about propping up a single airline that has been a terrible business for years and should be allowed to die." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Trump must see enormous possibilities to grift

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Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saving Spirit Airlines? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

"Mr. Trump should be all too aware of the problems of this sector. He bought Eastern’s shuttle business in 1989, financed it almost entirely with debt, tried to recast it as a luxury product and lost it to creditors in 1991." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

A reminder from @steverattner.bsky.social: Mr. Trump should be all too aware of the problems of this sector. He bought Eastern’s shuttle business in 1989, financed it almost entirely with debt, tried to recast it as a luxury product and lost it to creditors in 1991.

Worth saying again for the "kitchen table issue"crowd: Dems save the auto industry, millions of jobs, only 16 years ago and...nobody remembers, got no credit. Culture trumps policy, and RW propaganda shapes culture. Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saving Spirit Airlines? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saving Spirit Airlines? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Braniff. He didn't mention Braniff airlines. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...