{"id":12648,"date":"2026-05-08T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/08\/white-house-calls-mark-hamill-sick-after-actors-trump-grave-post-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:30:09","slug":"white-house-calls-mark-hamill-sick-after-actors-trump-grave-post-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/08\/white-house-calls-mark-hamill-sick-after-actors-trump-grave-post-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ after actor’s Trump grave post – BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The White House has called Star Wars actor Mark Hamill “one sick individual” after he posted \u200ban AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump in a \u200cshallow grave, alongside the caption “if only”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The image, posted on Hamill’s Bluesky account, showed Trump lying with his eyes shut, \u200bnext to a headstone with the inscription “Donald J. Trump 1946-2024”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars films from 1977 onwards, later deleted the post and apologised. “Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate,” he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BBC News has asked the actor’s representatives for a comment on the White House remarks about him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the now-deleted X post, Hamill – who has also voiced the Joker character in various DC Comics projects – wrote that Trump “should live long \u200benough 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 \u200brealize he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The White House press team responded on the same platform, calling Hamill “one sick individual”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“These Radical Left lunatics \u200cjust \u2060can’t help themselves,” they replied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last month, a man fired \u200ba shotgun outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in \u200bWashington, in what \u2060the authorities have said was an attempt to assassinate Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following the shooting, Melania Trump and other US officials demanded that comedian and TV chat show host Jimmy Kimmel be sacked by ABC after he joked on-air, in a parody sketch days before the shooting, that the first lady had a “glow like an expectant widow”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mrs Trump said Kimmel’s “hateful and violent rhetoric” was intended to divide the US, adding: “It is time for ABC to take a stand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behaviour at the expense of our community?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something \u2060we should reject,” he later said on-air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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