Paul Ryan Roasts Trump, His Twitter Habits During Catholic Charity Dinner

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks during the 72nd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks during the 72nd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) poked fun at his colleagues in the Senate, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the media during a speech at a New York Catholic charity event Thursday night.

But the President was the butt of nearly every joke.

“Please, enough. You should like the Cabinet when Donald Trump walks into the room,” Ryan said as he took the stage at the  the 72nd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner.

He then referenced his typical line to the media — that he doesn’t respond to the President’s tweets — during his roasting routine, saying the first thing he does each morning is “scroll Twitter.”

“Every morning, I wake up in my office and scroll Twitter to see which tweets I will have to pretend that I didn’t see later,” he said.

The dinner, which invites “New York liberals” and “Wall Street CEOs” — whom Ryan said he hadn’t “seen this many” of in the same room since “my last visit to the White House” — together for charity, is especially popular during presidential elections. Last year, President Donald Trump and then-candidate Hillary Clinton were asked to speak.

“I know last year at this dinner Donald Trump offended some people with his comments, which I know his comments, according to critics, went too far. Some said it was unbecoming of a public figure and that his comments were offensive. … Well, thank God he’s learned his lesson,” he said.

Ryan proved his penchant for keeping up with the mainstream news, taking jabs at Christie for his infamous beach visit and suggested Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was trying to say “oxymoron” when he reportedly called the President a “moron” this summer.

“The truth is, the press absolutely misunderstands and never records the big accomplishments of the White House,” Ryan said. “Look at all the new jobs the President has created — just among the White House staff.”

Watch the full speech below:

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  1. I caught a few clips of it this morning.
    Boy is he funnnyyyy
    A real card
    Should get his own comedy hour
    How to enable a sociopath and fuck the poors Comedy Hour
    The jokes on you America

  2. Cue Ryan showering Trump with abject apologies, starting in 3…2…1…

  3. Scum Republicans like Ryan are most infuriating when they laugh about their mean-spirited “philosophy.” Ryan, like the rest of his horde of anti-federalists, is running scared of Trump’s A-hole Nation, and you could see it in his nervous attempts at “joshing” people who haven’t a decent bone in their bodies.

    Until we crush Trump’s A-hole Nation, none of us is safe. Here’s a short blog post on doing that:

    Enjoy!

  4. I laughed…

    I wonder, if it’s a coincidence that Presidents Obama and WBush - and now Speaker Ryan - starts expressing opinions… maybe the broom is coming down now ?

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