CONGRESS/GOP/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out at Paul Ryan late Thursday [7-11-19] night on Twitter following the release of excerpts from an upcoming book in which the former Speaker of the House criticized him for not knowing ‘anything about government.’ Shortly after CNN covered Ryan’s comments about Trump in Tim Alberta’s ‘American Carnage,’ which details how Republicans have changed with Trump’s rise to the presidency, Trump responded with a series of insults in three tweets…Ryan reportedly told Alberta he couldn’t stand another two years with Trump and called retirement an ‘escape hatch,’ according to excerpts obtained by The Washington Post. Trump also said Mitt Romney’s bid for president in 2012 was doomed after he chose Ryan as his running mate. Trump further criticized Ryan for failing to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall…In Alberta’s book, Ryan also characterized Trump as uneducated about the government: ‘I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right,’ Ryan said, according to The Washington Post. ‘Because I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government. … I wanted to scold him all the time.’”
–Kristin Lam, “Donald Trump slams Paul Ryan in late-night Twitter rant: ‘Couldn’t get him out of Congress fast enough!’,” USA Today, July 12, 2019 6:24 am