GOP senator Says Trump isn’t a role model for young people

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford (R) criticized President Trump in a recent interview over the rhetoric and language he uses in his tweets, saying that was “definitely not the way that I’m raising my kids.”

During an appearance on CBS’ “Face The Nation” that aired on Sunday, the Republican senator said, “I don’t think that President Trump as a person is a role model for a lot of different youth.”

“That’s just me personally,” he continued, adding: “I don’t like the way that he tweets, some of the things that he says, his word choices at times are not my word choices. He comes across with more New York City swagger than I do from the Midwest and definitely not the way that I’m raising my kids.”

“Saying that, there are policy areas that we agree on and when we agree on those things we work on those things together,” Lankford said. “But it’s also been a grand challenge to be able to say, for a person of faith, for a person who believes that there is a right way to go on things I- I wish that he did. And he was more of a role model in those areas.”

“Now, saying all that, on the area of life where I’m very passionate about, on the issues of abortion, for instance. He’s been tenaciously pro-life,” he went on. “He’s focused on putting people around him that are very focused on religious liberty, not honoring a particular faith, but honoring any person of any faith to go be able to live and practice that faith and to have respect for that. That’s helpful for any person of faith.”

However, he also added that for “people of faith, it’s a bit of a conundrum at times that I look at some of the moral decisions that he’s made and go, I disagree with that.”

He also discussed being asked for comment by members of the press for his take on some controversial tweets the president sends out…….read more

Source: The Hill