White House criticises Mark Hamill over post depicting Trump in a grave

8 articles · Updated · NBC News · May 7

Hamill deleted the Bluesky post on Thursday and later apologised if the AI-generated image, showing Trump’s headstone marked “1946-2024”, was found inappropriate.
The White House rapid response team said such rhetoric had helped inspire three assassination attempts in two years against the president and called the actor “one sick individual”.
The row comes nearly two weeks after a shooting outside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where suspect Cole Tomas Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate Trump.

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