GOP Senator James Lankford says he doesn’t think Trump is a role model for young people – By Melissa Quinn (CBS News) / Dec 29 2019
Washington — Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma criticized President Trump for his tweets and language, saying he doesn’t believe the president is someone who young people can look up to.
“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,” Lankford said on “Face the Nation.” “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.”
Lankford is a member of a weekly prayer breakfast held in the Senate, where members of the upper chamber come together to pray, sing hymns and swap stories. The Oklahoma Republican has a masters degree in divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as the director of student ministry for the Baptist Convention of Oklahoma and director of a Baptist youth camp before he was elected to Congress.
Lankford said he wishes Mr. Trump were more of a role model, but acknowledged he and the president are in lockstep on areas Lankford is “very passionate about,” such as abortion and religious liberty.
“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,” the Oklahoma Republican said. “But he’s also been very, very protective of areas like life and very protective of areas of religious liberty to be able to allow people to be able to live their faith out. And at the end of the day, what we’re really looking for in an administration is folks that allow us to be able to live our principles.”
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