“If Only.”
Mark Hamill Posted a Picture of Trump Dead in a Grave. Five Days After the Third Assassination Attempt.
On May 6, 2026, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill posted to his verified Bluesky account an AI-generated image showing President Donald Trump dead in a flower-surrounded grave under a stone reading “Donald J. Trump 1946-2024.” Caption across the image: “If Only.” In accompanying text, Hamill 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 post landed five days afterCole Tomas Allen was charged with the attempted assassination of the President at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner — the third documented assassination attempt against Trump in less than two years. The White House Rapid Response account called Hamill “one sick individual.” Spokesman Davis Ingle connected the post to a Star Wars Day promotional video Hamill had filmed two days earlier alongside former President Barack Obama (D) and demanded Democratic condemnation. Disney and Lucasfilm have not commented; the studio is weeks from releasing The Mandalorian and Grogu, its first theatrical Star Wars film since 2019.
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- "If Only"captionAcross an AI-generated image of Trump dead in a grave on Hamill's verified Bluesky account
- 3rdassassination attemptButler PA (Jul 13, 2024) → West Palm Beach (Sep 15, 2024) → WHCD (May 1, 2026)
- Decadeof TDS postsFrom 2017 Joker-voice readings of Trump tweets to 2024 ear-bandage joke to 2026 grave image
The image: AI-generated, color, depicting Trump lying flat in dirt at the foot of a flower-strewn granite headstone. Engraved on the stone: “DONALD J. TRUMP 1946-2024.” Stamped across the bottom of the image in bold sans-serif: “If Only.”The post went up on Hamill's verified Bluesky account on May 6, 2026.
Below the image, in his own words, Hamill posted three contiguous lines:
“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. Long enough to realize he'll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.”
Mark Hamill · verified Bluesky account · May 6, 2026
As of publication the post had not been deleted; Disney and Lucasfilm had not issued a statement; and Hamill's representatives had not responded to requests for comment from Fox News, the Washington Times, or Mediaite.
Within hours, the official White House Rapid Response account posted:
“One sick individual. 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.”
White House Rapid Response · official social-media account · May 7, 2026
White House spokesman Davis Ingleissued a separate statement that tied the post directly to the previous Sunday's Obama-Hamill Star Wars Day video for the Obama Presidential Center, demanding Democratic condemnation:
“Barack Hussein Obama just appeared in a video with this deranged lunatic three days ago. Now this same person is calling for President Trump to die. Why won't Obama and Democrats condemn this disgusting call to violence?”
Davis Ingle · White House spokesman · May 7, 2026
As of publication, neither former President Obama nor Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) nor House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had publicly condemned the post.
Hamill is not new to anti-Trump posting. The May 6 grave image is the most graphic single example in a public-record file that runs nearly a full decade. The timeline:
The May 6 post is not Hamill's first public comment in the immediate aftermath of an attempt on the President's life. On the night of July 13, 2024— within hours of Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing rally attendee Corey Comperatoreand grazing the President in the right ear — Hamill posted to X:
“1st APPEARANCE of ludicrously oversized ear bandage, apparently not needed prior to tonight.”
Mark Hamill on X · the night of the Butler PA assassination attempt · July 13, 2024
The post drew immediate cross-platform pushback. Replies on X included “Dude, you're straight up evil” and “Pretty classless.” Newsweek later reported Hamill quietly deleted an anniversary repost; the original was archived at the time. Disney did not comment. Hamill did not apologize.
Hamill's most-circulated TDS contributions are not screenshots. They're audio. Beginning in January 2017, Hamill produced a long-running series of recordings of himself reading Trump's tweets in his iconic Joker voice from the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series. The first viral piece — a 53-second reading of Trump's New Year's “to my many enemies” tweet, complete with dramatic Joker laughter — was posted to social media with help from his daughter Chelsea Hamill and his wife Marilou.
The series ran for years. Highlights:
Jan 2017: “To My Many Enemies” — Trump's New Year's tweet, 53-second Joker reading.
Jan 2017: “Wire Tapping” tweets — Joker reading with popping sounds.
Jan 2017: Meryl Streep tweets — Joker reading.
Jun 2017: Mika Brzezinski tweetstorm — Joker reading (covered by TheWrap).
2017–2018: Global-warming tweets — Joker reading.
Hamill, in a contemporaneous HuffPost interview, said the project began after comedian Matt Oswalt(Patton Oswalt's brother) tweeted that one of Trump's tweets sounded like “something the Joker would say right before releasing a swarm of killer bees into Gotham.”
May 4, 2025. Star Wars Day, year one of the second Trump term. The White House posted an AI image of Trump styled as the Mandalorian. Hamill replied publicly:
“Proof this guy is full of Sith.”
Mark Hamill · response to White House Mandalorian post · May 4, 2025
May 4, 2026. Star Wars Day, year two. Hamill appeared in a promotional video alongside former President Barack Obama (D) for the Obama Presidential Centerin Chicago. Two days later he posted the grave image. Davis Ingle's May 7 statement — “Barack Hussein Obama just appeared in a video with this deranged lunatic three days ago”— ties the timeline together explicitly.
Three months before the grave post, on February 12, 2026, Hamill drew a separate wave of fan backlash for the autograph-pricing structure he was charging at fan conventions: $400 for a signed 8×10 photo, $500 for premium items, and $700 for bulky memorabilia. Reactions on social media included:
“A man who loves his fans so much he extorts them for cash.” — user reaction quoted by Fox News Entertainment.
“May the fleece be with you.” — comedian Steve Byrne.
“400 bucks to sign a name on a photo? F*** me — I like Star Wars but I could buy a month's groceries.”— representative fan reply on X.
The pricing structure is high but not unprecedented at the celebrity-autograph circuit; what made it newsworthy was Hamill's own decade-long brand as the regular-guy Star Wars actor who positions himself as “in it for the fans.” Hamill did not respond to Fox News for the autograph-pricing story.
The May 6 post arrived at a particularly awkward moment for Hamill's home franchise. Disney and Lucasfilm are weeks away from releasing The Mandalorian and Grogu, the studio's first theatrical Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. Disney CEO Bob Igerhas publicly tied the studio's performance to a return to broad-appeal storytelling and away from on-set politics. The studio has not commented on the post.
Hamill is not a credited Mandalorian-and-Grogu cast member, but he remains the on-record face of the franchise — the original Luke Skywalker, voice of the animated Joker, regular convention headliner, host of the Lucasfilm-produced documentary archive. There is no clean separation between his Bluesky account and his association with the studio.
Mark Hamill posted a picture of the President of the United States dead in a grave with the caption “If Only,” five days after a man named Cole Tomas Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate that president at the White House Correspondents' dinner. It is the third documented attempt against Trump's life in less than two years. It is also the latest entry on a public timeline of Hamill's anti-Trump posts that runs from 2017 Joker-voiced tweet readings, through a July 2024 ear-bandage joke posted hours after a man was shot dead at a Trump rally, to a September 2025 podcast in which he said he was “ashamed” of his own country for re-electing the man. Disney has not commented. The Mandalorian and Grogu releases in weeks. The White House called Hamill “one sick individual.” The post is still up.