Donald Trump Blasts Paul Ryan On 'American Carnage' Quotes

MILWAUKEE, WI — President Donald Trump is heading to Wisconsin for a fundraiser, and he's bringing a new feud with Paul Ryan with him.

Ryan, the longtime Republican congressman from Janesville who served in Wisconsin's First Congressional District, has taken on a number of roles after leaving as Speaker of the House in January 2019.

On Thursday morning, the Washington Post published a report after receiving an advance copy of Tim Alberta's book "American Carnage" - a book that the Post said is "filled with vivid details and on-record quotes from prominent Republican officials." Alberta is a journalist who works in Washington D.C.

The Post's report cited a number of quotes from Ryan, who pilloried the President over his apparent lack of knowledge when it came to statecraft, government and, in general, how to be a nice guy.

“I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right,” Ryan recalls. “Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government . . . I wanted to scold him all the time,” according to an excerpt of the book published in the Post report.

Trump wasn't about to let that kind of report go.

On Thursday, the President took to Twitter, unleashing a Trump Tweetstorm castigating the former Speaker of the House as a loser - except by the grace of the Trump presidency.

The next morning, Trump was at it again.

"For Paul Ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. I remember a day in Wisconsin, a state that I won, where I stood up and made a speech and I then introduced him and they booed him off the stage -- 10,000 people. So for him to be going out & opening his mouth is pretty incredible," he said.

Trump will visit Derco Aerospace in Milwaukee on Friday for a key fundraiser in advance of the 2020 election. The fundraiser will cost in excess of $2,000 to attend, and Ricketts is listed as a host along with RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and co-chairman Tommy Hicks, Jr.

Trump is aiming once again to win the Badger state, after garnering Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes during the 2016 presidential election. In that election, the Trump/Pence ticket collected 1,405,284 votes, edging out the Clinton/Kaine ticket, which collected 1,382,536 votes.