Former House Speaker Paul Ryan appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday. (Credit: CNBC screenshot)
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared on CNBC today and was utterly annihilated for refusing to support President Trump.
The infamous Never-Trump RINO appeared on Squawk Box on Thursday to discuss the incoming Trump Adminstration’s agenda. But things quickly got spicy between him and one of the co-hosts.
Ryan told Squawk Box he wanted to let bygones be bygones and called for the country to rally around Trump’s Administration. But Joe Kernan was not so willing to let Ryan off the hook and proceeded to roast him brutally.
“So now you’re calling for unity,” Kernan scoffed. After Ryan smiled and affirmed that he was, Kernan let him have it.
“It would have been nice before the election,” Kernan pointed out. “The other thing I thought was funny was when you said (mocking voice) ‘Hey look, I want Trump to succeed.’”
“You know who that sounds like?” he continued. “It sounds like a Democrat!”
Kernan then laughed in Ryan’s face.
WATCH:
Watching Paul Ryan get roasted brings a smile to my face.
What makes it better is that a CNBC host did it.
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— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) January 16, 2025
Ryan responded that he was a conservative Republican who agreed with Trump on most issues, but sometimes “his brand of conservatism” runs counter to Trump’s. Then Kernan dropped another hammer on Ryan’s head.
“It was always a binary choice (between Harris and Trump), Kernan explained. “And a vote not for Trump was a vote for Kamala Harris.”
“Can you imagine!” he added while laughing. “Can you imagine!”
Ryan then compared his views to Trump’s again in an attempt to highlight common ground, citing immigration, tax, and regulatory policy in particular.
Kernan closed by reminding Ryan not to sacrifice “the good for the perfect” like Ryan did in November’s election.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Ryan publicly declared Trump “unfit for office back in July and said he would not support Trump in the 2024 Presidential election.
In an interview with fellow Never-Trumper Neil Cavuto, Ryan attributed his decision to withdraw support from Trump partially to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the Capitol.
“That’s a part of it. I think it’s a contribution of factors. I think it really is just character at the end of the day, and the fact that if you’re willing to put yourself above the Constitution ― an oath you swear when you take federal office, whether as president or a member of Congress, you swear an oath to the Constitution ― and you’re willing to suborn it to yourself, I think that makes you unfit for office.”
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