Donald Trump tweets: The President-elect's missives on Obamacare, Russian hacking, WikiLeaks

Obamacare, carmakers, Russia, the FBI, and Wikileaks all feature in the day's Twitter musings.

This week the South Korean government gave someone a job monitoring President-elect Donald Trump's tweets, and China asked him to stop using Twitter to conduct international diplomacy. Yet this hasn't stopped Trump from ramping up his output.

The president-elect sent out a flurry of tweets this week, touching on everything from the album sales of Jackie Evancho — who will sing at his inauguration — to bashing carmaker General Motors.

He also promoted WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, debated Russia's influence on the 2016 election, and landed some blows on Obamacare – all in just 140 characters.

Trump has been criticised for not having given a press conference where he faces tough questions from reporters in a public forum for more than six months. But true to form, he tweeted this week that he will hold a press conference on 11 January.

In the meantime, we've collected his tweets from Thursday, 5 January, for a flavour of his daily Twitter output.

6:57:57 am EST | 2017

The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to fix it, they..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2017

7:01:33 am EST | 2017

...do the typical political thing and BLAME. The fact is ObamaCare was a lie from the beginning."Keep you doctor, keep your plan!" It is....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 January 2017

7:06:42 am EST | 2017

...time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works - much less expensive & FAR BETTER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 January 2017

8:25:30 am EST | 2017

The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 January 2017

8:45:57 am EST | 2017

to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against "Intelligence" when in fact I am a big fan!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 January 2017

1:14:30 pm EST | 2017

Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 January 2017

7:24:34 pm EST | 2017

How did NBC get "an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?" Who gave them this report and why? Politics!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 6 January 2017

7:30:15 pm EST | 2017

The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 6 January 2017

7:40:03 pm EST | 2017

So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 6 January 2017

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