White House calls Mark Hamill 'sick' after actor's Trump grave post

The Star Wars actor apologised and deleted the post, which contained an AI image of the president in a shallow grave.

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The image, posted on Hamill's Bluesky account, showed Trump lying with his eyes shut, ​next to a headstone with the inscription "Donald J. Trump 1946-2024".

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.

BBC News has asked the actor's representatives for a comment on the White House remarks about him.

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 ​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 ​realize he'll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore."