{"id":648123,"date":"2026-05-04T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648123\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:50:08","slug":"white-house-posts-photo-of-trump-with-baby-yoda-for-star-wars-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648123\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Posts Photo of Trump with Baby Yoda for Star Wars Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis is not the publicity The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu was looking for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe White House posted an image (below) for May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, of Trump as The Mandalorian alongside Baby Yoda\/Grogu and an American flag. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe image was accompanied by the declaration, \u201cIn a galaxy that demands strength \u2014 America stands ready. This is the way. May the 4th be with you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe post comes as Disney ramps up its publicity campaign for the first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu, which opens in theaters on May 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe top-voted comments on the post were AI images that turned Trump into the obese mobster Jabba the Hutt (such as the one posted by a Gavin Newsom fan account, below). Another top comment swapped out Baby Yoda in the post for Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLucasfilm had no comment on the image.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEarlier Monday, Nielsen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/star-wars-disney-streaming-data-1236584891\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a study of Star Wars streaming ratings on Disney+<\/a> which had some surprising results \u2014 including the sequel trilogy not being as popular at the original and prequel trilogy, among other findings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEarly tracking shows The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu headed towards an $80 million opening weekend, which is either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/kimmel-mandalorian-devil-prada-1236580119\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the lowest ever for a Disney-produced Star Wars movie<\/a>, or the terrific number for a movie based on a TV show \u2014 depending on your point of view (as Obi-Wan might say). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Mandalorian &amp; Grogu is based on Disney+\u2019s hit The Mandalorian TV show and returns Pedro Pascal as the helmeted bounty hunter Din Djarin. The film also stars Jeremy Allen White and Sigourney Weaver.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not the publicity The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu was looking for. The White House posted an image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,107920],"class_list":["post-648123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-mandalorian-and-grogu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}