{"id":781869,"date":"2026-05-08T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781869\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:47:21","slug":"star-wars-actor-mark-hamill-deletes-trump-death-image-posts-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781869\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Wars\u2019 actor Mark Hamill deletes Trump death image, posts apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStar Wars\u201d actor Mark Hamill deleted a photo depicting President Trump\u00a0as deceased and posted a new image to \u201capologize\u201d on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/07\/us-news\/white-house-lashes-out-after-star-wars-star-mark-hamill-posts-photo-of-trump-in-grave\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamill faced backlash<\/a>\u00a0for posting on Bluesky what appeared to be Trump lying over a grave just days after an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner with the caption \u201cIf Only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted &amp; humiliated for his countless crimes. Long enough to realize he\u2019ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore,\u201d Hamill wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The White House spoke out against the post in a statement to\u00a0Fox News Digital\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79757085;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39317835\" width=\"471\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/actor-mark-hamill-posted-image-127240396.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hamill's Bluesky post depicts Donald Trump dead in an open grave with daisies and a tombstone reading &quot;Donald J. Trump 1946-2024,&quot; along with the text &quot;If Only.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-39317835\"  \/>\u201cStar Wars\u201d actor Mark Hammil posted a photo of President Trump dead in a grave on Bluesky. Hamill\/Bluesky<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarack Hussein Obama just appeared in a video with this deranged lunatic three days ago. Now this same person is calling for President Trump to die,\u201d White House spokesman\u00a0Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy won\u2019t Obama and Democrats condemn this disgusting call to violence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday, the original post was deleted and replaced with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/markhamillofficial.bsky.social\/post\/3mlbw7ipivc2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">new post<\/a>\u00a0featuring an image of Trump with windswept hair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39317844\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo-emma-mcintyre-getty-images-127240523.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hamill poses for a photo wearing a suit and a lapel pin that says &quot;ICE OUT&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-39317844\"  \/>Hamill later deleted the photo depicting Trump\u00a0as deceased and apologized \u201cif you found the image inappropriate.\u201d Getty Images for IMDb<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccurate Edit for Clarity: \u2018He should live long enough to\u2026be held accountable for his\u2026crimes.\u2019 Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate,\u201d Hamill wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Hamill has been a\u00a0frequent critic of the president, going as far as to say <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/entertainment\/star-wars-star-mark-hamill-says-hes-ashamed-that-america-voted-for-trump-twice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019s \u201cashamed\u201d that America elected Trump twice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing for him to have sneaked by the first time \u2014 when he got re-elected, that\u2019s on us,\u201d Hamill said on the \u201cWTF with Marc Maron\u201d podcast in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s [what] I\u2019m really ashamed of \u2014 because I always thought there are more decent Americans, honest Americans than there are others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cStar Wars\u201d actor Mark Hamill deleted a photo depicting President Trump\u00a0as deceased and posted a new image to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45326,185,69,171,20427,80,14398,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-781869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-assassinations","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-mark-hamill","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-star-wars","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116538799719549406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}