President Donald Trump took comfort in the familiar Sunday, tweeting about some of his most common complaints from the campaign trail and young presidency.
Onlookers watch as President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with a security guard as he leaves the New York Times building following a meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, in New York.
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In his first tweet of the day, sent shortly after 6:30 a.m. Eastern time, Trump alleged that the race for the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which ended Saturday, was “rigged” against Rep. Keith Ellison, who many saw as the standard-bearer on the party’s more liberal wing.
Ellison lost the race to former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, an Obama administration official who had the backing of former vice president Joe Biden and was considered the more centrist candidate.
As a presidential candidate, Trump repeatedly accused the DNC and the Democratic establishment of favoring the eventual nominee, Hillary Clinton, while attempting to sabatoge the insurgent candidacy of Bernie Sanders.
The DNC was eventually rocked by revelations from the Wikileaks email hack that former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other top officials had contemplated ways to undermine Sanders in the primary. Schultz eventually resigned from her post.
However, there was no indication that Saturday’s election of Perez was rigged in his favor, as he won over Ellison by a 235-200 margin. Clinton never formally endorsed either candidate, though she had considered Perez as a potential vice presidential nominee. In his first act as chair, Perez named Ellison deputy chair in an attempt to unify the party.
Shortly after his first tweet, Trump renewed his criticism of the New York Times and a recent ad campaign the news organization has launched to coincide with Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies. The ad campaign focuses on the tagline, “The truth is more important now than ever,” but Trump pronounced himself unimpressed.