{"id":417386,"date":"2026-05-08T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:17:09","slug":"white-house-calls-mark-hamill-sick-over-trump-gravestone-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417386\/","title":{"rendered":"White House calls Mark Hamill &#8216;sick&#8217; over Trump gravestone meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The White House has labelled Star Wars actor Mark Hamill as &#8220;sick&#8221; after he shared an AI-generated meme of US President Donald Trump in a grave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Bluesky post, which was later deleted, appeared to depict the President in an open grave. A gravestone above his head read &#8220;DONALD J. TRUMP 1946-2024&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A caption over the image read: &#8220;If Only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In an accompanying post, Hamill wrote: \u201cIf Only- He 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cLong enough to realize he&#8217;ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-now-deleted-post-made-by-mark-hamill-on-social-media-3X3CLW36ABGTBCUOKWTCZGAVKQ.jpg\" alt=\"The now-deleted post made by Mark Hamill on social media. (Source: Bluesky)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The now-deleted post made by Mark Hamill on social media. (Source: Bluesky) <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hamill later removed the image and sought to clarify what he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate,&#8221; he wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Trump administration blasted Hamill for the post, calling him &#8220;one sick individual&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;These Radical Left lunatics just can&#8217;t help themselves,&#8221; the White House said on X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Cole Tomas Allen was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/28\/dc-gala-shooting-suspect-charged-with-attempted-assassination-of-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with the attempted assassination<\/a> of US President Donald Trump after he allegedly charged past security, armed with a shotgun and pistol, at the venue of the White House Correspondents&#8217; dinner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He allegedly shot a Secret Service agent in the leg with buckshot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">While campaigning in Pennsylvania during the 2024 election, Trump was shot in the ear. The attempted assassin was killed by the Secret Service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Later that year, a man was found in bushes outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, while the President was golfing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Ryan Routh was arrested after trying to flee and was sentenced to life in prison on February 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has labelled Star Wars actor Mark Hamill as &#8220;sick&#8221; after he shared an AI-generated meme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,409,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-417386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}