Mark Hamill has issued an apology after sharing a photo showing US President Donald Trump in a shallow grave.
The Star Wars actor – best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the film franchise – posted an AI-generated image of Trump lying lifeless in a grave earlier this week.
Shared on his Bluesky account, Hamill posted the image of Trump surrounded by daisies, lying in front of a headstone with the dates 1946-2024. A text caption on the image read: ‘If Only.’
Captioning the post, he added: ‘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 realise he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. don_TheCON.’
Soon after the 74-year-old was slammed by the White House, whose Rapid Response 47 communications account posted on X that he was ‘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,’ it added.
Following the backlash, Hamill deleted the image and later shared another post in which he explained an ‘accurate edit for clarity’.
Referring to the post, he said Trump ‘should live long enough to be held accountable for his crimes’.
‘Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologise if you found the image inappropriate.’
Hamill has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his policies for several years, previously saying he was ‘ashamed’ that America elected him twice.
‘It’s one thing for him to have sneaked by the first time – when he got re-elected, that’s on us,’ he said on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in September.
‘That’s [what] I’m really ashamed of – because I always thought there are more decent Americans, honest Americans than there are others,’ he added.
Speaking to The Times last year, he also revealed he’d told his wife to choose between moving to London or Ireland after Trump was re-elected President in 2024, but that he would remain in the U.S. for now.
‘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,’ he said of Trump.
‘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.’
Hamill’s comments come after a man was charged with the attempted assassination of Trump in a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC last month.
In the days after the shooting, talk show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel faced calls from the President, his wife Melania Trump and other US officials after he joked the First Lady had a ‘glow like an expectant widow’.
Despite the sketch being filmed before the shooting, Trump slammed Kimmel’s ‘hateful and violent rhetoric’.
‘It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behaviour at the expense of our community?’ she said.
But when defending himself, Kimmel said his joke simply referenced the couple’s age difference, saying on his talk show: ‘I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject.’
Addressing the First Lady directly, he added: ‘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.’
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