--- title: Paul Ryan Not Yet Supporting Trump: Interview Transcript description: Here is a transcript of the interview in which Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said he is not yet ready to endorse Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-06T00:08:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:11.332Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Paul Ryan's Interview on Not Yet Endorsing Donald Trump og:description: Here's what he said og:url: https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb34faa9150ee75/69889217e20a8777efa90b89/paul-ryan-trump-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Paul Ryan Holds Weekly Media Briefing At The Capitol og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Paul Ryan's Interview on Not Yet Endorsing Donald Trump twitter:description: Here's what he said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb34faa9150ee75/69889217e20a8777efa90b89/paul-ryan-trump-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Paul Ryan's Interview About Not Supporting Donald Trump Yet > Sponsored content. 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Win McNamee/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 6, 2016 12:08 AM UTC Republican Speaker of the House [Paul Ryan](http://time.com/4263238/paul-ryan-presidential-nomination-contested-convention/) said Thursday that [he is “not there yet”](http://time.com/4320139/donald-trump-paul-ryan-republican-party/?xid=homepage) on supporting Donald Trump, the [presumptive presidential nominee](http://time.com/4317397/donald-trump-presumptive-nominee-indiana-primary-november-hillary-clinton/) for his party. As the highest-ranking elected Republican, Ryan has [criticized the divisive politics](http://time.com/4269342/paul-ryan-speech-donald-trump-civility/) of the 2016 campaign and said Thursday that Trump needs to reassure conservative voters he shares their values. Here is a transcript of Ryan’s [interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper](http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-gop-nominee/index.html). --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/"},"headline":"Read Paul Ryan's Interview About Not Supporting Donald Trump Yet","datePublished":"2016-05-06T00:08:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:11.332Z","description":"\"I'm not there right now\"","url":"https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Paul Ryan","Donald Trump","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb34faa9150ee75/69889217e20a8777efa90b89/paul-ryan-trump-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb34faa9150ee75/69889217e20a8777efa90b89/paul-ryan-trump-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paul Ryan Holds Weekly Media Briefing At The Capitol","caption":"Paul Ryan Holds Weekly Media Briefing At The Capitol","creditText":"Win McNamee/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4320476/paul-ryan-interview-transcript-donald-trump-endorsement/","name":"Read Paul Ryan's Interview About Not Supporting Donald Trump Yet"}}]}] ```