White House Slams Mark Hamill Over Trump Grave Picture

Donald Trump’s administration has issued a forceful response to Mark Hamill, after the Star Wars actor posted an AI-generated image depicting the US leader lying in a grave.

On Wednesday, Hamill – who has been a vocal critic of Trump throughout hos political career – took to the social media site BlueSky, where he posted a picture showing the president lying in a grave, in front of a tombstone suggesting tat he died in 2024.

“If only,” Mark captioned his post, before proclaiming that Trump “should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted and humiliated for his countless crimes”.

He added: “Long enough to realise he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.”

Since BlueSky is a relatively liberal platform compared with X, the vast majority of respondents had no problem with Hamill’s post.

However, the White House’s Rapid Response account on X, however, had a much angrier reaction, branding the actor “one sick individual” and a “radical left lunatic”.

Hamill later deleted his post and created another, which he called an “accurate edit for clarity”, that didn’t directly respond to the White House criticism.

In it, he said, Trump “should live long enough to… be held accountable for his… crimes”, and added: “Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but [I] apologise if you found the image inappropriate.”

Although wishing death on anyone, or cheering their demise, is generally considered tasteless and inappropriate, it should be noted that this is something Trump has also done repeatedly.

In March, Trump’s response to the death of former FBI director and special prosecutor Robert Mueller was: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

Two years earlier, he posted a video on social media showing an image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden printed on the tailgate of a passing truck.

And just last month, he threatened the entire nation of Iran with genocide, saying that “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again”.