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Donald Trump has had a busy day so far on Twitter

Eliza Collins
USA TODAY
President-elect Donald Trump listens during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower on Dec. 14, 2016, in New York.

President-elect Donald Trump was in full Twitter mode on Thursday morning, airing a list of grievances that began with an attack on Vanity Fair in what appears to be a response to a negative article about Trump Grill.

Vanity Fair published a restaurant review Wednesday afternoon headlined “Trump Grill could be the worst restaurant in America”; the subhead read “and it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.” Trump Grill is one of the restaurants located in Trump Tower in New York.

Trump and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter have had a rough relationship over the past three decades. Carter has been a critic of Trump going back to his time at Spy magazine, where he used to refer to the businessman as a “short fingered vulgarian.”

But a few minutes after the Vanity Fair tweet, Trump had some nice words for Time and The Financial Times, who had both named him “Person of the Year” over the past couple of weeks.

After he had finished with his media commentary, Trump shifted to a story currently playing out over how he will handle his businesses while president.

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Trump had previously scheduled a press conference for Thursday to address the situation but canceled it and moved it to sometime next month — his team has not provided a date. In the meantime, Trump has said that he will hand over control of his businesses to his sons and executives, but no other details have been provided. Trump’s last press conference was in July.

He rounded out his tweetstorm by continuing to cast doubts on reports of Russian hacking influencing the presidential election. A first version of his tweet that included a typo was deleted and re-sent later.

Concerns about Russian hacking were raised before the election. In October, federal intelligence agencies announced that the intelligence community was “confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations … These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process.”

Trump’s skepticism breaks with the intelligence community, White House and even members of his own party. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined a bipartisan group of senators who expressed concern over reports that Russia had meddled in the U.S. election, and he said there would be congressional investigations.

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