“Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead,” the “Star Wars” actor said in a follow-up post.

Mark Hamill apologizes for posting image of Donald Trump dead in a grave after alleged assassination attempt

"Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead," the "Star Wars" actor said in a follow-up post.

By Wesley Stenzel

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- Mark Hamill shared an image of Donald Trump in a grave with the caption "If Only."

- The actor later deleted the photo and apologized, writing, "Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead."

- A White House spokesperson called Hamill "a deranged lunatic" in response to the image.

Mark Hamill is apologizing after sharing a controversial social media post.

On Wednesday, the *Star Wars* actor posted a seemingly AI-generated image on Bluesky of Donald Trump dead in a shallow grave with daisies growing around his corpse. The image featured a gravestone bearing the president's name and the years "1946-2024." The image also included the message "If Only" in large lettering at the bottom.

Hamill captioned his post, "If Only — 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."

He added, "Long enough to realize he'll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore," along with the hashtag "#don_TheCON."

Hamill, last October.

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White House Spokesman Davis Ingle responded to the post in a statement to **. "Barack Hussein Obama just appeared in a video with this deranged lunatic three days ago," he wrote. "Now this same person is calling for President Trump to die. Why won't Obama and Democrats condemn this disgusting call to violence?"

(Obama and Hamill did appear together in a video promoting the former's Obama Presidential Center for *Star Wars *Day on May 4).

EW has reached out to a representative for Hamill for comment.

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Hamill's post was live until Thursday afternoon, at which point he deleted it and shared an version of his message without the grave image.

"Accurate Edit for Clarity: 'He should live long enough to... be held accountable for his...  crimes,'" he wrote in his new post, which featured an unflattering photo of Trump with his hair blowing in the wind. "Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate."

The official White House Rapid Response account on X also slammed Hamill's first post.

"@MarkHamill is one sick individual," the account wrote. "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."

Trump in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

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Hamill's post came 11 days after an alleged attempted shooter was apprehended at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington (D.C.) Hilton.

Hamill frequently shares posts that are critical of the Trump administration. On April 28, he shared a seemingly AI-generated image that parodied the photo of Trump holding his fist above his head after the alleged assassination attempt near Butler, Pa. The photo featured fellow Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel in the position of the president, surrounded by his sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez and fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.

"He hates comedy because it speaks truth to power & a malignant narcissist can't handle that," Hamill wrote at the time. "Period. End of story."

The White House has repeatedly utilized imagery from Hamill's most iconic project, *Star Wars*, to cast the president in a favorable light. On May 4, the official White House X account posted an image of Trump as Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter character Din Djarin (the Mandalorian) holding Grogu (a.k.a Baby Yoda).

"In a galaxy that demands strength - America stands ready," the post's caption said. "This is the way. May the 4th be with you."

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A year prior, the White House posted an image of Trump with extremely muscular arms holding a red lightsaber, the weapon traditionally associated with evil Sith lords in the *Star Wars* universe.

"Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion — you’re the Empire," the post said. "May the 4th be with you."

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