President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE on Tuesday ripped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for not approving Sinclair Broadcast Group's merger with Tribune Media, calling the move “so sad and unfair.”

“This would have been a great and much needed Conservative voice for and of the People. Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair,” Trump tweeted.

So sad and unfair that the FCC wouldn’t approve the Sinclair Broadcast merger with Tribune. This would have been a great and much needed Conservative voice for and of the People. Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair. Disgraceful! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2018

The FCC voted 4-0 last week to refer the proposed $3.9 billion merger to an administrative law judge, a move that is likely to kill the deal.

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had said earlier that he had “serious concerns” about the legality of the merger, citing Sinclair’s plans to sell some of its television stations but still maintain significant control over the stations' operations and programming.

"The evidence we’ve received suggests that certain station divestitures that have been proposed to the FCC would allow Sinclair to control those stations in practice, even if not in name, in violation of the law," Pai said last week.

The conservative station submitted a plan to address some of those concerns, but appeared to fail to win over the FCC commissioners ahead of the vote on the merger.