Vanity Fair Picks Up Record Subscriptions After Donald Trump's Twitter Attack

Getting called out by Donald Trump on Twitter is turning out to be great for business for news organizations.

The day that the president-elect lambasted Vanity Fair's "really poor numbers" and "no talent," the magazine sold the most subscriptions in a single day at Conde Nast, the magazine's parent company that owns a suite of lifestyle publications.

That's according to a report from Folio's Becky Peterson, who cited a Conde Nast spokesperson. Patch has reached out to Conde Nast for confirmation and more information.

Trump's tweet came a day after the magazine's website ran an article saying Trump Grill, the eponymous restaurant in Trump Tower, could be "the worst restaurant in America."

"The steak came out overcooked and mealy, with an ugly strain of pure fat running through it, crying out for A.1. sauce (it was missing the promised demi-glace, too)," writes Tina Nguyen of the filet mignon apparently preferred by Trump's son, Don, Jr. "The plate must have tilted during its journey from the kitchen to the table, as the steak slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a T-boned minivan."

Trump apparently wasn't too happy about the review and trained his Twitter sights on the magazine the next morning:

Vanity Fair is only the latest media outlet to benefit from the president-elect's quick Twitter fingers.

The New York Times, a frequent target of his 140-character criticisms (who Trump also, we should note, called "a world jewel"), has seen its print an online subscriptions soar since Trump's win.

The Times has aggressively reported on sexual assault allegations made against Trump, published his 1997 tax returns and investigated his business conflicts around the globe. (Among many, many other things.)

It added 132,000 total subscriptions from Election Day through Saturday, Nov. 27.

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