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From president-elect trump. he writes "based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the lockheed martin f-35 i have asked boeing to price out a comparable f-18 super hornet." he's talking about these jets here. and while lockheed tumbled, shares of boeing got a boost. let's go to richard quest in his role as cnn aviation correspondent, host of "quest means business." richard quest. we know ceos of both boeing and lockheed martin were down at mar-a-lago speaking to mr. trump and it seems a day later he's almost setting off a bidding war between the two companies. >> that's exactly what he'...

Life by early in his administration by cutting both country's arsenals. saving hundreds of billions of dollars that we don't need to spend on new weapons and using the money for other purposes. that will put him in the history books. >> in the meantime, we have the spector of social media, absent any news conferences. it has been 148 days, the most we hear, we had 74 seconds of him. the most we hear from him is on social media. he took to it again later today to talk about aircraft, specifically a big government contractor, lockheed. based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the lockhe...

That's a different animal. this had an after hours impact on lockheed stock. think of the people working on the f-35 program tonight. >> in fact just a few weeks ago, he was tweeting about lockheed and questioning the pricing on the f-35. the ceo of lockheed happened to be at a meeting in the persian gulf and lost $2 billion in market cap in the next minutes after the tweet went out. one has to wonder about this very public and limited on social media debate. he is creating competition between the two american companies. jobs are at stake. it's not as though he is debating with airbus or anoth...

That's half of obama stimulus plan. that's a lot of money. and so if you can start to get these numbers into a more manageable space, it's going a long way as making us as a nation more productive. our government needs to be more productive for us in terms of what they're spending. they haven't been. >> president elect has inserted himself in business dealings, now we are seeing with the defense contractors, it's fascinate to go watch. is it sustainable? can he keep doing this once he assume it is presidency next year? trish: you know, it's a really good question. you can't stick your nose in ...

What dueck? >> yeah. and -- what do you think? >> yeah, and he didn't just land on this particular jet by accident. it's come under criticism from multiple sources, including within the military as you pointed out. and i think this is sort of an appropriate role for a president to come in and say despite my campaign promise to rebuild the american military, rebuild and invest should not and does not mean let's just take piles of cash and shovel it out the door. let's be smart about it and make sure the investments are in the national security interests and not just funding some job's boondoggl...