Citadel CEO Ken Griffin on Thursday knocked the Trump administration for making deals with large corporations to avoid the full extent of its tariff policies, describing such agreements as anti-American.

"Is that our country, that we're going to favor the big and the connected?," Griffin told CNBC's Sara Eisen in an exclusive interview from Miami. "That's not the American story."

"When the state becomes involved in picking winners and losers, there's only one way this game ends: All of us lose," added Griffin, a billionaire and top Wall Street figure.

Griffin's comments come as U.S. companies have raced to make agreements with the White House that allow them to avoid the steepest levies placed on imports from many foreign countries. Multiple well-known businesses including Apple

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