“I think he is a conservative,” Ryan said of the presumptive GOP nominee. “There are different kinds of conservatives, that’s for darn sure.”

Ryan and Trump have had their differences throughout the 2016 campaign cycle. The Speaker, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, has cringed at some of Trump’s more extreme statements and positions: Ryan called Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims “unconstitutional,” blasted Trump’s attacks on a Mexican American judge as “racists,” and chided the candidate for refusing to disavow support from a white supremacist.

Still, Ryan said that did not disqualify Trump from being considered a conservative.

“I think he is a conservative because of his experiences, but is he what we refer to as a movement conservative? … No, because he didn’t come up that way,” Ryan told about 25 reporters at during an invitation-only lunch at the Calfee Building in downtown Cleveland.