Republican Senator James Lankford Says Donald Trump Is Not a Good Role Model for Young People

Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma has revealed he doesn't assume Donald Trump is an effective position mannequin.

Lankford, 51, stated in a current interview with CBS’s Face The Nation that the president’s vocabulary in speeches and on social media did not set an instance for “the best way that I’m elevating my youngsters.”

“I don’t assume that President Trump as a person is a task model for lots of various youth,” he in the phase that aired on Sunday. “That’s simply me personally. I don’t like the best way that he tweets, a number of the things that he says. His phrase decisions at occasions will not be my word decisions.”

“He comes across with more New York Metropolis swagger than I do from the Midwest,” he added.

While Lankford criticized the president’s rhetoric, he admitted he agreed with some of Trump’s policies.

“Saying that, there are coverage areas that we agree on, and once we agree on those things we work on those issues collectively,” he added. “Nevertheless it’s also been a grand challenge to have the ability to say — for an individual of religion, for a person who believes that there is a right option to go on issues — I wish he did and was more of a task mannequin in these areas.”

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As noted by Time, Lankford — the previous director of Scholar Ministry for the Baptist Conference of Oklahoma — stated that he held out hope the get together would select a “position model candidate” in the course of the 2016 primaries that saw the likes of Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Marco Rubio vie for the Republican presidential nomination.

“In a marketing campaign yr filled with lies, personal assaults, vile language and immoral conduct, in the present day was yet one more reminder that there isn't a position model, from either get together, operating for President this yr,” Lankford wrote on his marketing campaign Facebook web page before the 2016 election, according to The Oklahoman.

“I feel he’s throwing gasoline on the hearth together with his communications,” he stated a yr later of Trump’s rhetoric. “I don’t want my youngsters to talk that method. I don’t assume it helps.”

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Lankford spoke to Face the Nation alongside Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware for a discussion about religion in politics. He stated he is regularly asked about Trump’s controversial feedback by the media and his constituents.

“At the end of the day, what we’re really in search of in an Administration is people that permit us to be able to reside our rules,” Lankford stated within the interview.

“The president has a spokesperson and I’m not the president’s spokesperson,” he continued. “One of many fascinating things about Washington, D.C. is I don’t get to select the those that I work with. The American individuals decide the people who I work with.”

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