White House Calls Mark Hamill ‘Sick’ Over Trump Grave Post

Mark Hamill is in the middle of a full-blown political firestorm after the Star Wars icon shared — and then quickly deleted — an AI-generated image on Bluesky depicting President Donald Trump lying in a shallow grave, surrounded by daisies, with a headstone inscribed “Donald J. Trump 1946-2024.” The caption? Two words: “If Only.”

The White House did not hold back.

“.@MarkHamill is one sick individual,” the administration’s Rapid Response 47 account posted on X Thursday. “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.”

Hamill, 74 and best known for playing Luke Skywalker across the Star Wars saga since 1977, posted the image Wednesday alongside a lengthy caption that went well beyond the grave visual. “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,” the actor wrote. “Long enough to realize he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. #don_TheCON.”

By Thursday afternoon, the post was gone from his profile.

The Apology That Wasn’t Quite an Apology

Hamill returned to Bluesky with what he framed as a clarification. “Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate,” he wrote. He offered what he called an “Accurate Edit for Clarity” — essentially stripping the post down to the line about Trump living long enough to face accountability for his alleged crimes.

A representative for Hamill pointed NBC News to that statement rather than offering any additional comment.

Trump himself has not directly addressed the post.

Hollywood and Capitol Hill Weigh In

The backlash spread fast — and it wasn’t just coming from the White House.

Actor James Woods, 79, reposted Hamill’s message on X with a pointed five-word verdict: “When they tell you who they are, believe them.”

Saturday Night Live alum and outspoken Trump ally Rob Schneider, 62, was blunter. “Mark Hamill is a sick demented” person “and a disgrace to decent Americans,” Schneider wrote.

Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy took a different angle — going after Hamill’s Hollywood legacy. “He had one role that made him a legend because he had Han Solo, Darth Vader, and Obi Wan carrying his baggage,” the 40-year-old senator wrote, accusing Hamill of suffering from an “extreme case” of what Trump allies call “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Oklahoma congressional candidate Jackson Lahmeyer went further still, calling for Hamill to be “investigated and held accountable,” arguing that posts like his “create a culture where assassination attempts become inevitable.”

The Timing Made Everything Worse

The post landed at an especially charged moment. Just weeks ago, suspect Cole Tomas Allen, 31 — a teacher and engineer from California — was arrested after allegedly breaching a security checkpoint near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner while armed with multiple weapons. He’s been charged with attempting to assassinate the president and is expected back in court Monday for a preliminary hearing.

It’s the third alleged attempt on Trump’s life in two years. He was shot in the ear at a Pennsylvania rally in 2024 — the shooter was killed by the Secret Service — and a second suspect was convicted of attempted assassination in February after being found hiding in bushes near where Trump was golfing.

The moment also arrives as the Trump administration is already investigating former FBI Director James Comey over a separate social media post — a nearly year-old image of seashells spelling out “86 47” that Trump allies interpreted as a veiled call for violence against the 47th president.

Hamill’s Long History With Trump

None of this is new territory for Hamill, who has been one of Trump’s most reliably outspoken celebrity critics for years. After Trump’s 2024 re-election, he told The Times of London that he’d asked his wife to pick between moving to the UK or Ireland. She talked him out of it — but not with a direct argument. “She’s very clever. She didn’t respond right away, but a week later she said, ‘I’m surprised you would allow him to force you out of your own country,’” Hamill recalled. His response: “That son of a bitch, I thought. I’m not leaving.”

The White House trolled him for that too, joking that at least he wouldn’t have to share Ireland with Rosie O’Donnell.

About Trump’s second term, Hamill has been grimly candid. “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 told The Times. “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.”

The post also came just days after Hamill appeared alongside former President Barack Obama in Chicago to mark Star Wars Day on May 4, previewing Obama’s Presidential Center — a pairing that some Trump allies used to further amplify their outrage online.

Hamill has been here before, and he’ll likely be here again. But a deleted post and a half-apology probably won’t be the last word on this one.