Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan expressed how he truly felt working with President Trump when he was in Congress in an upcoming book, American Carnage.
Ryan chose to not run for reelection in the 2018 midterm elections, seeing retirement as an “escape hatch” in not dealing with Trump anymore, according to the Washington Post.
“We’ve gotten so numbed by it all,” Ryan says in the book. “Not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. Don’t call a woman a ‘horse face.’ Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example.”
“I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right,” Ryan added. “Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government … I wanted to scold him all the time.”
Ryan said he and others worked hard to stop Trump from “making bad decisions. All the time.”
In the book, Trump called Ryan a “f—ing Boy Scout.”
The book also details how prominent Republicans, such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, changed their mind on Trump after he won the 2016 election.
