Ex-Speaker Ryan to GOP: Reject Trump, `2nd-rate imitations' Steve Peoples Updated: Tags: FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo, then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., listens to President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with Republican lawmakers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Ryan is weighing in on the fight for the Republican Partys future and he's urging conservatives to reject Donald Trump and second-rate imitations. Ryan is making the remarks in a speech May 27, 2021, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)