Four years later, at a Trump rally
To my Latter-day Saint friends, think of him as Captain Moroni… He seeks not power but to pull it down.
Campaign rally, Arizona · October 2020
He compared Trump to a revered Book of Mormon hero who "seeks not the praise of the world." The comparison drew rebuke within his own church. Around the same time, Lee joined the effort to keep Trump in power after the election he had lost.
Sources: Daily Universe (BYU)
How he talks now, as @BasedMikeLee
This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way.
On X, after the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker · June 2025
He posted it, with an image of the suspect, a day after Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in their home; a companion post read "Nightmare on Waltz Street." He deleted them only after bipartisan outrage. Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele told him to "grow the hell up."
Sources: ABC News · The Hill