The White House has lashed out at actor Mark Hamill, calling him “one sick individual” after he posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump in the grave.
The Hollywood star, who has long been an outspoken critic of Trump, posted a picture to his BlueSky account that showed the President lying with his eyes closed in a shallow grave surrounded by daisies, beneath a gravestone with the words “Donald J Trump 1946-2024”. The image was accompanied by a caption that began: “If Only.”
However, Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars films, rejected that sentiment, suggesting Trump should live long enough to be held accountable for his actions.
“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,” Hamill wrote. “Long enough to realise he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.”
Mark Hamill has faced criticism for his post on BlueSky (Photo: Mark Hamill/BlueSky)The White House hit back, using its official Rapid Response 47 account on X to say that: “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.”
Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, meanwhile, called Hamill’s post “sick, twisted and evil” and blamed left-wing politics, a familiar response from the GOP following high-profile violence.
Hamill, who has previously described Trump as “the worst thing that’s ever happened to this country”, soon deleted the post and wrote in a separate message: “Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologise if you found the image inappropriate.”
‘Trump can dish out dirt – but he can’t take it’
The latest White House spat with a prominent Trump critic has brought back to the fore the increasingly heated debate over growing political violence in the US, and the President’s role in it.
Last month, an armed man tried to break into the White House correspondents’ dinner where Trump and many of his Cabinet were in attendance. It was believed to be the third major attempt on the President’s life in less than two years. Meanwhile, the high-profile deaths of figures including the conservative activist Charlie Kirk have led to accusations from both the left and right that the other side is responsible for the increasing violence.
One figure is often at the centre of this. Trump has spent years posting crude insults and open threats against his opponents, fostering an environment in which public threats of violence have been largely normalised.
Donald Trump reposted a video of truck depicting Joe Biden hogtied on the back (Photo: Truth Social)The US President has published AI videos of himself in a fighter jet bombing anti-Trump American protesters with faeces; he has reposted images showing former president Joe Biden hogtied in the trunk of a truck; and has shared an image of Chicago as a war zone, captioned “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” while he ramped up immigration crackdowns on Democrat cities.
Trump has also threatened to use the military against Americans whom he dubs “the enemy from within” and just weeks ago threatened an entire country with annihilation on social media.
“Trump can dish out the darkest of dirt but he absolutely can’t take it,” said Mark Shanahan, an associate professor of political engagement at the University of Surrey. “He is incredibly thin-skinned and we’ve seen increasingly in this second term that his only defence against even the softest provocation is to go heavily on the attack.”
Shanahan added: “There’s a cognitive disconnect within him that simply can’t compute that when he shares AI images of the Obamas as monkeys or him as Jesus that it will provoke a reaction.”
Republicans have repeatedly made excuses for Trump’s behaviour. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, defended the AI video of excrement being dumped on protesters as “satire”.
Yet, this is apparently no excuse when it comes to Trump’s opponents. When the comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a joke on air about Trump’s advanced age last month, Trump called for him to be punished. Shortly afterwards, the US Federal Communications Commission launched a review of ABC’s station licences.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been a continued target of ire for the President (Photo: Chris Delmas/AFP)Trump’s politics is powered by retribution
It’s not just words or graphic images with Trump. The President has used the nominally independent Department of Justice to try to prosecute and imprison his opponents, including former FBI director James Comey (twice), former national security adviser John Bolton and New York’s Attorney General Letitia James.
He also accused his former chairman of the joint chiefs, General Mark Milley – who called Trump “fascist to the core” – of treason, and pointedly said the sentence for that crime would once have been death. He then stripped Milley of his security detail.
And, notoriously, Trump urged his supporters to “fight like hell” after he lost the 2020 election, culminating in the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
There is little sense that the President sees his own rhetoric as stoking the flames of violence.
“Trump views all events only through the prism of how they personally affect him,” Shanahan said. “His key driver now appears to be retribution against anyone he judges to be his political enemy – from members of Congress to late-night TV comics, and now Star Wars actors.”
Shanahan said that for a long time Trump’s opponents believed they could rise above this. “That’s no longer the case. Increasingly, when Trump goes low, his opponents are getting right down there with him,” he added. “That’s hugely damaging for US political discourse which has lost all nuance and is ever more hyper-polarised.”
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