UPDATE, 12:20 p.m. PT: Mark Hamill deleted the image of President Donald Trump lying in front of a gravestone from his Bluesky account. In a new post Thursday, he wrote: “Accurate Edit for Clarity: ‘He should live long enough to… be held accountable for his… crimes.’ Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate.”
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Mark Hamill, best known for portraying Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” film franchise, was blasted by Trump’s White House as a “sick individual” after he shared an AI-generated image of President Donald Trump lying lifeless in a shallow grave.
Hamill, on his Bluesky account Wednesday, posted the image of a prone Trump surrounded by daisies, lying in front of a headstone with the dates “1946-2024.” A text caption on the image says “If Only.” (See the image below.)
In the Bluesky post, the actor wrote: “If Only- He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted & humiliated for his countless crimes. Long enough to realize he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. don_TheCON”
On Thursday, the White House’s Rapid Response 47 communications account on X said about Hamill’s post, “.@MarkHamill is one sick individual. These Radical Left lunatics just can’t help themselves. This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President.”
Here’s the post that Hamill shared Wednesday:
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Hamill has been a routine and outspoken critic of Trump and his policies. According to an interview he gave last year to The Times of London, Hamill had told his wife to choose between moving to London or Ireland after Trump was re-elected U.S. president in 2024 — but that he would remain in the U.S. for now.
About Trump, he told the newspaper, “The bullying, the incompetence, the people in place… The only way I can deal with it without going crazy and wanting to open my veins in a warm tub is to look at it like a thick, sprawling political novel. It’s entertaining in a way because this could actually be the end. Our status in the world has been crippled and that will reverberate for decades.”
From Variety US