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

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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