Donald Trump just made his first Twitter attack as president-elect

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last updated 14 November 2016

President-elect Donald Trump handed over his Twitter access to his staff in the run-up to the election, and since then his account has been mostly silent. Sunday morning, however, Trump made his first Twitter attack since winning the presidency, criticizing The New York Times for its campaign coverage.

Trump was referencing a letter from the Times' publisher and executive editor which on Friday promised to "rededicate" the paper to honest, courageous journalism. The president-elect is not the Times' only critic of late; Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin on Thursday said the newspaper's post-election headline, "Democrats, Students, and Foreign Allies Face the Reality of a Trump Presidency," was like something out of The Onion.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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