Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., lamented Sunday that President Donald Trump isn’t a good role model for children.
In an interview on CBS News' "Face The Nation," Lankford said the president demonstrates "more New York City swagger" than the legislator likes.
"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 said.
"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."
But Lankford said he’s behind Trump 100% on abortion and religious liberty issues.
"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 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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