Donald Trump loves television. He loves being on it, and watching it. But Trump’s TV time may be a bigger problem than we thought.

Trump is obviously attached to his favorite Fox News programs, tweeting responses to and explicitly mentioning what show he’s watching throughout his presidency. But as former White House communications aide Cliff Sims describes, Trump sometimes took his screen time a little too far.

At one point, Trump was supposed to be meeting with then-House Speaker Paul Ryan to hear about his party’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Sims describes in his forthcoming book Team of Vipers. It didn’t work out as Ryan planned, as The Washington Post summarizes below.

Sims recounts one time when Ryan was in the Oval Office explaining the ins and outs of the Republican health care bill to the president. As Ryan droned on for 15 minutes, Trump sipped on a glass of Diet Coke, peered out at the Rose Garden, stared aimlessly at the walls and, finally, walked out.

Ryan kept talking as the president wandered down the hall to his private dining room, where he flicked on his giant flat-screen TV. Apparently, he had had enough of Ryan’s talk. It fell to Vice President [Mike] Pence to retrieve Trump and convince him to return to the Oval Office so they could continue their strategy session.

It’s not surprising that Trump found Ryan boring, and further reporting in the book shows that Trump wasn’t a big fan of Ryan.

As detailed in the book, Trump once asked Ryan why he wasn’t more “loyal” to him.

After Ryan criticized Trump’s response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Trump chided Ryan over the phone.

“Paul, do you know why Democrats have been kicking your ass for decades? Because they know a little word called ‘loyalty,’ ” Trump told Ryan, according to the book.

“Why do you think [then-Minority Leader] Nancy [Pelosi] has held on this long? Have you seen her? She’s a disaster,” Trump reportedly continued. “Every time she opens her mouth another Republican gets elected. But they stick with her . . . Why can’t you be loyal to your president, Paul?”

Ryan said in 2017 that Trump “could have done better” in responding to the Charlottesville rally in which a counterprotester died after a self-professed neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd. Following the rally, Trump blamed violence “on many sides.”