Donald Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speaker Paul Ryan. | Getty Trump: 'It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me' 
 
 Donald Trump celebrated his freedom from the Republican establishment Tuesday, boasting that it’s “so nice” to be unchained. 
 
 Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speaker Paul Ryan, whom the Republican nominee has continued to lash out at since the top elected Republican on Monday told his conference he would no longer defend Trump. 
 
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 “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” Trump tweeted. 
 
 The real estate mogul also highlighted the chasm in the Republican Party, conceding that Democrats are “far more loyal” than the GOP. More than two dozen Republicans have either said they will no longer support their nominee or called on him to step aside from the top of the ticket since a tape emerged Friday showing Trump speaking in incredibly lewd terms about sexually assaulting women. 
 
 “With the exception of cheating Bernie out of the nom the Dems have always proven to be far more loyal to each other than the Republicans!” Trump wrote. 
 
 Trump began blasting Ryan on Twitter at about 8 a.m., when he posted a tweet criticizing the GOP leader for not supporting him and followed up by calling him “weak and ineffective.” 

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– In a Twitter storm on Tuesday, Donald Trump implied he'd been chained to the Republican Party for too long. But in the wake of recent denouncements from dozens of Republicans, including Paul Ryan, "the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," he said, per Politico. In what is widely viewed as evidence of a widening rift in the Republican Party, Trump went on to bash Ryan as a "very weak and ineffective leader" and label Democrats—"with the exception of cheating Bernie"—as "far more loyal to each other" than Republicans. "Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!" he continued, adding, Republicans "are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary." Bustle's take: Trump's "going rogue and it could get scary." In response, a rep says Ryan "is focusing the next month on defeating Democrats, and all Republicans running for office should probably do the same," per USA Today. Despite several GOP members calling on Trump to remove himself from the presidential race, the nominee vowed Tuesday to teach Republicans "how to win."