John Bacon, and David Jackson

USA TODAY

Donald Trump's on-again, off-again relationship with The New York Times is on again.

Hours after the president-elect said he was canceling a meeting with the newspaper, the parties announced it was rescheduled Tuesday.

"Mr. Trump's staff has told us that the President-Elect's meeting with The Times is on again," said Eileen Murphy, the Times senior vice president for communications. "He will meet with our publisher off-the-record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists."

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told reporters that "we are going to The New York Times."

Earlier in the morning, Trump said via Twitter that he was canceling a scheduled meeting with The New York Times, continuing his feud with what he routinely describes as the "failing" newspaper.

"I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice," Trump tweeted. Later he added that "Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!"

The Times posted a brief on Trump's announcement, adding that the "news media continues to be his foil of choice."

The Times said the meeting was to include reporters and editors, "mostly on the record, unlike his meeting with television news executives on Monday."

Murphy issued a statement saying the newspaper was unaware the meeting was canceled until seeing the tweet early Tuesday. She said the paper made no attempt to change the ground rules of the meeting.

"They tried to yesterday — asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to," Murphy said. "In the end, we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off-the-record session and a larger on-the-record session with reporters and columnists.”

As for coverage of Trump, the website Tuesday morning was leading with a benign description of Trump's two-and-a-half-minute YouTube video laying out a plan for his first 100 days in office. The story does point out that Trump was silent on controversial promises such as deporting immigrants, tracking Muslims and repealing the Affordable Care Act.

The Times website also prominently displayed an editorial in which it said Trump should consider altering the focus of his wrath to "dangerous white nationalists," a reference to the recent "Hail Trump" salute that marked a recent convention of the alt-right National Policy Institute.

In addition to tweeting about the scrapped meeting with the Times, Trump also called out a report from the Times ombudsman noting a surge in complaints on its coverage received after the election. Such volume hadn't been seen since coverage of the September 11, 2011, terror attacks, Public Editor Liz Spayd wrote.

Trump's tweet: "The failing @nytimes just announced that complaints about them are at a 15 year high. I can fully understand that — but why announce?"

The Times noted that while many complaints targeted treatment of Trump, many others were angered by the newspaper's pre-election optimism over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's chances of winning.