Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake recently described daily activities and revelations from the Trump White House as "moral vandalism," and Oklahoma Senator James Lankford seems to agree.
"I don’t consider the president a role model for my kids. I don’t want my kids to speak the way that he speaks or to make some of the choices," Lankford said on MSNBC's "Kasie DC."
While Lankford told Kasie Hunt he does not speak to people, treat people or tweet like the president, there was a caveat to his statement Trump is not a role model.
"He’s not tried to be able to step out and say that he is a role model in those areas. He said he’s more of a role model in business and trying to do deal making. I get that," Lankford said. "I have to be able to look at policies and what we’re going to actually get done at the end of the day, same thing that people had to do during the Clinton administration."
Lankford has voted in line with Trump’s position 92 percent of the time.
Lankford also said the Me Too movement has made people more aware of public figures’ moral shortcomings.
"An individual’s personal life does matter. It shows you evidence of what they’re going to be like. And I think if we can hold all of us to a higher standard, it helps our families, it helps our communities, it helps our businesses — we want our businesses to be ethical. We want our leaders to be role models," Lankford said.
