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White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ after his post with AI image of Trump in a grave
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White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ after his post with AI image of Trump in a grave

The Guardian · May 8, 2026, 2:04 PM

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Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’US politics live – latest updates The White House has branded Star Wars actor Mark Hamill “a sick individual” after an AI-generated image showing Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with the words “If Only” as an overlay was posted to one of star’s social media accounts.Hamill, who played the lead character of Luke Skywalker in six movies of the iconic science fiction franchise and is a longtime critic of the US president, apologized and removed the post from his Bluesky account on Thursday. Continue reading...

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