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

White House calls Mark Hamill 'sick' after actor's Trump grave postJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GooglePaul GlynnCulture reporterReutersThe White House has called Star Wars actor Mark Hamill "one sick individual" after he posted ​an AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump in a ‌shallow grave, alongside the caption "if only".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."The White House press team responded on the same platform, calling Hamill "one sick individual"."These Radical Left lunatics ‌just ⁠can't help themselves," they replied."This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President."Last month, a man fired ​a shotgun outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner in ​Washington, in what ⁠the authorities have said was an attempt to assassinate Trump.Following the shooting, Melania Trump and other US officials demanded that comedian and TV chat show host Jimmy Kimmel be sacked by ABC after he joked on-air, in a parody sketch days bef...