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Mark Hamill deletes image depicting Trump as deceased, posts new photo to 'apologize' after backlash 64%

By Lindsay Kornick0%

5/8/2026, 12:43:10 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 22.3% saturation with 82 hits. Analysis detected 477 faulty-reasoning hits from 368 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.1% and a BS Rank of 64% (6,064 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.90% of the article peer group.

"Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill deleted a photo depicting President Donald Trump as deceased and posted a new image to "apologize" on Thursday. 
Hamill faced backlash for posting on Bluesky what appeared to be Trump lying over a grave just days after an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner with the caption "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," Hamill wrote. 
‘STAR WARS’ ACTOR MARK HAMILL REVEALS HE CONSIDERED LEAVING THE US WHEN TRUMP WON RE-ELECTION 
The White House spoke out against the post in a statement to Fox News Digital at the time. 
"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?" 
White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement. 
‘STAR WARS’ ACTOR MARK HAMILL ROASTED FOR MOCKING TRUMP’S ‘LUDICROUSLY OVERSIZED EAR BANDAGE’ 
By Thursday, the original post was deleted and replaced with a new post featuring an image of Trump with windswept hair. 
"Accurate Edit for Clarity: 'He should live long enough to...be held accountable for his...crimes.' 
Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate," Hamill wrote. 
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment. 
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Hamill has been a frequent critic of the president, going as far as to say he's "ashamed" that America elected Trump twice. 
"It’s one thing for him to have sneaked by the first time  when he got re-elected, that’s on us," Hamill said on the "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast in September. 
"That’s [what] I’m really ashamed of  because I always thought there are more decent Americans, honest Americans than there are others." 
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Confirmation Bias
22.3%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
10.3%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
13%
Self-Serving Bias
5.2%
Fundamental Attribution Error
6%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
8.4%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
6%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
9.5%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
4.1%
Straw Man
3%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
3%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
22.3%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
7.9%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
4.1%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
4.6%

368 words analyzed.

Analysis

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