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Americans, thats roughly 48 million americans that are on twitter and hes getting 20,000 retweets. i would suggest to you and to my good friend hogan that the only people that are actually paying any attention to anything that donald trump or anyone else is tweeting are people in the media. no one actually cares. >> all right. im going to pay attention because we just got another tweet from donald trump. quote -- >> what does it say? >> -- doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory preside...

John kerry. well bring that to you live when the prime minister comes to the podium. let us turn in our moments we have left to the president-elect, donald trump, whos back in meetings today after taking a break for christmas and as he works to fill his final cabinet slots. mr. trump now blaming president obama for what he says will be anything but a smooth transition tweeting a short time ago, "doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory o statements and road blocks." "thought it would be ...

Very, very nice. >> reporter: attempting to lower the temperature after earlier in the day he escalated his public spat with the president. tweeting "doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. all this coming after president obama used his high profile speech at pearl harbor tuesday to take a veiled jab at his successor. >> even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its mo...

We had a very, very good talk about generally about things. he was in hawaii. it was a very, very nice call. i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. >> that agreeable tone came just hours after mr. trump tweeted this. doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and road blocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. sunlen serfaty has more from mar-a-lago. >> reporter: good morning, joe and alison. as president-elect donald trump continues tim...

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Trumps first public statement of the day at 9:07 a.m. was a tweet saying doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. no one has any idea what donald trump was talking about in that tweet because when he was asked to elaborate on it in his first exchange with reporters today in the middle of the afternoon, he completely contradicted his own tweet. >> mr. president, when you tweeted this morning that ...

Trump spoke to journalists on wednesday and not once, but twice. mr. trump trying to dial down the heat with president obama after days of feuding. so apparently was the president who phoned trump. the white house says the call was positive and continuing a smooth and effective transition. trump seeming to agree speaking to the media at the mar-a-lago estate in florida. >> he called me. we had a very, very good talk about generally about things. he was in hawaii. was a very, very nice call. i ac...

Disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. no one has any idea what donald trump was talking about in that tweet because when he was asked to elaborate on it in his first exchange with reporters today in the middle of the afternoon, he completely contradicted his own tweet. >> mr. president, when you tweeted this morning that the transition of power wasnt going smoothly at least to president obama. it is going smoo...

Im kate baldwin. "outfront" tonight breaking news. the white house confirming moments ago that president obama called president elect trump this morning from hawaii, describing the call as a positive one, centered on continuing a smooth and effective transition. trump echoing the thoughts a short time ago after emerging from his resorts in florida. listen. >> he phoned me. he had a very nice confirmation. we had a very general conversation. very nice. appreciate it that he called. >> this all ta...

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