House Speaker Paul Ryan had a birthday on Sunday, turning 47 years of age. Let's just say he will not remember it fondly.
The young congressman from Wisconsin was greeted on his birthday with derisive messages for his apparent capitulation to the new commander in chief.
happy birthday to Paul Ryan, your gift is a 2050 textbook about history's greatest cowards with your dipshit face on the cover
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) January 29, 2017
Happy Birthday to Paul Ryan! I have a birthday gift I'd like to send him. Does anyone know his address? pic.twitter.com/7o07PLgalA
— Carina Hsieh (@carinahsieh) January 30, 2017
in honor of Paul Ryan's birthday, everybody should go to Walmart and verbally abuse anybody paying with food stamps https://t.co/q30FP83tBo — Nathan Thompson (@nathanlthompson) January 30, 2017
We wanted to say happy birthday, but Paul Ryan wasn't there, so we took a photo with some other messages instead #NoBanNoWall pic.twitter.com/3IIuHIiRdT — Pienemesis (@Pienemesis) January 29, 2017
i heard it is paul ryan's birthday today, we should get him a spine and a soul.
— Jayson Buford (@jaysonbuford) January 29, 2017
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL RYAN! YOU'RE GOING TO HELL." pic.twitter.com/A2urXo8Go3
— Siobhán Brett (@siobhanbrett) January 29, 2017
Last year, during the contentious presidential campaign, Ryan sent out a tweet that appeared to go against his party's nominee on the issue of a Muslim ban.
A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it. pic.twitter.com/DdsYj2XoLS
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) July 31, 2016
But when President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that imposed a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, Ryan was one of the first members of Congress who backed the action.
“This is not a religious test and it is not a ban on people of any religion,” a Ryan spokeswoman said Saturday.
Ryan's support of the ban attracted wide-spread condemnation over the weekend, culminating in a birthday that was jeered by people who are resisting Trump and everyone complicit in his rise to the White House.
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