Ryan to Trump: 'Anti-Semitic images' have no place in campaign

Donald Trump needs to "clean up" his social media act, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday. The declaration comes after the latest instance of the presumptive Republican nominee drawing a backlash for one of his tweets, namely the six-pointed star on a field of money next to Hillary Clinton's face and the words, "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!"

“Look, anti-Semitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign. Candidates should know that. The tweet’s been deleted. I don’t know what flunky put this up there. They’ve obviously got to fix that," Ryan told WTMJ's Charlie Sykes on his radio show. "We’ve got to get back to the issues that matter to the public. "


Remarking upon his Fourth of July festivities, Ryan told Sykes, who has vowed to never support Trump, that if he "had to stop everything and comment to a ridiculous tweet sent out by this campaign, I’d have no time for anything else.”

As Sykes noted that Ryan has endorsed Trump, the Wisconsin Republican remarked, “You have reminded me this.”

Asked whether Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus or some other high-ranking Republican official needs to get him on the phone and tell him to avoid posting similar things in the future, Ryan said the time has come.

“Yeah, I really believe he’s got to clean up the way his new media works," Ryan said. "But most importantly, as you know, one of the few times I spoke out against him during the primary very forcefully was in this area, when he failed to disavow supremacists, white supremacists. And so look, I’ve made this really, really clear.

"The point is, I think he’s got to clean this up. My understanding is that this was done by staff, not by he himself. But more importantly, they’ve got to clean this thing up.”