U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) drew outrage on social media Friday after complaining about critics making fun of a recent spill by Sen. Mitch McConnel (R-KY).
“No decent person — and certainly no conservative person — should mock an 83-year-old’s fall," Lee wrote on Twitter. "That was heartbreaking, and the thought of anyone finding it amusing is hard to fathom."
But commenters were quick to point out Lee’s hypocrisy when it comes to mocking aging Democrats who fall. Semafor writer John Harwood quickly re-posted tweet by Lee poking former President Joe Biden for taking a spill on Air Force One.
“Why stairs are a threat to humanity,” Lee wrote in his post.
Other critics quickly pounced.
“Mike Lee is genuinely deranged,” said former CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood.
“I seriously don't understand how people can just walk headlong, arms outstretched, into obvious ‘This You?’ style hypocrisies,” said another commenter on X.
“Joke policing in the right is obviously the wrong move,” said another.
Daniel De Simone, director of communications at the Center for American Women and Politics, posted that Mike Lee's social media person “has to be the single most counterproductive political staffer in American history.”
“A convincing lesson in not hiring people off of 8chan boards,” Simone added.
Another internet critic described Lee “as phony as they come” as well as the “same guy who literally made a joke of Melissa Hortman's murder then was outraged when people spoke ill of Charlie Kirk.”
Soon after the murder of Minnesota state lawmaker Hortman and her husband, Lee posted two tweets from his official X account: "this is what happens when Marxists don't get their way" and "nightmare on Waltz street."
Lee eventually removed the posts after a confrontation with Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN).