GOP Senator: ‘I Don’t Consider The President A Role Model For My Kids’

U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, talks with the media outside police headquarters in Guthrie, Okla, Friday, July 8, 2016. Lankford visited with police officers during a private meeting. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) slammed President Donald Trump’s behavior on Sunday, saying that he does not consider the President a role model for his kids, and that he would never speak or treat his staff the way Trump does.

“I don’t want my kids to speak the way he speaks or make some of the choices, and it has been the challenge for quite a bit of time to say, how do you balance this out between policy and personal behavior in the way he has his own unique style,” he said to MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. “I don’t speak that way. I don’t tweet that way. I don’t interact with people that way. I don’t treat my staff the way he treats his staff.

“But that is who the American people selected and that’s who we are going to be able to work with,” he added.

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  1. "Slammed?"

    Not even close.

    Sounds like “excused” to me.

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Yeah he’s Hitler, but he’s our Hitler. So I’m just making sure that MY kids know what a hypocrite their father is.

  3. Profiles in Courage.

  4. Yes, this President should be a role model for nobody…he is a walking primer about how to do and say everything wrong.

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