

Lengthy seminars and conference calls were never a staple of his executive style. Trump did not necessarily suffer from a lack of teachability he simply preferred to dictate the flow of information, rather than be dictated to. Trump had no patience for him-“Okay, Paul, I get the point,” he snapped at the Speaker-finding Ryan dull and supercilious, “a fucking Boy Scout,” as he told friends after the meeting.īut the party’s new standard-bearer was not averse to being schooled by the establishment. This was especially true of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, who had promptly attempted to tutor Trump with a PowerPoint briefing during a meeting at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters. Donald Trump did not care for most of the Republican leaders he’d met with after sealing the nomination in early May.
