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Mark Hamill deletes image depicting Trump as deceased, posts new photo to 'apologize' after backlash ⁠65%

By Lindsay Kornick⁠0%

5/7/2026, 5:43:10 PM

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 ⁠65% (7,792 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.40% 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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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 22.3%Lindsay Kornick: 3.5%Fox Nation: 4.1%Confirmation Bias22.3%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.6%Fox Nation: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.3%Fox Nation: 3.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.1%Fox Nation: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.5%Fox Nation: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 4.2%Fox Nation: 3.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 10.3%Lindsay Kornick: 12.6%Fox Nation: 11.9%Framing Effect10.3%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.6%Fox Nation: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 4.9%Fox Nation: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.6%Fox Nation: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 13.0%Lindsay Kornick: 15.7%Fox Nation: 10.8%Negativity Bias13.0%This article: 5.2%Lindsay Kornick: 5.1%Fox Nation: 2.7%Self-Serving Bias5.2%This article: 6.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.9%Fox Nation: 1.4%Fundamental Attribution Error6.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.7%Fox Nation: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 8.4%Lindsay Kornick: 6.5%Fox Nation: 3.2%In-Group Bias8.4%This article: 6.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.0%Fox Nation: 1.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias6.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 4.3%Fox Nation: 2.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.4%Fox Nation: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 9.5%Lindsay Kornick: 0.9%Fox Nation: 1.4%Recency Bias9.5%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 4.1%Lindsay Kornick: 4.4%Fox Nation: 2.5%Ad Hominem4.1%This article: 3.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.9%Fox Nation: 0.7%Straw Man3.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.8%Fox Nation: 5.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 3.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.6%Fox Nation: 1.8%False Dilemma3.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.2%Fox Nation: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 22.3%Lindsay Kornick: 9.0%Fox Nation: 6.1%Hasty Generalization22.3%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.2%Fox Nation: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 10.7%Fox Nation: 7.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 7.9%Lindsay Kornick: 2.4%Fox Nation: 1.3%Begging the Question7.9%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 5.0%Fox Nation: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.2%Fox Nation: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.9%Fox Nation: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 2.1%Fox Nation: 2.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.8%Fox Nation: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.6%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.6%Fox Nation: 1.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 4.1%Lindsay Kornick: 4.2%Fox Nation: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection4.1%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 3.0%Fox Nation: 6.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 0.7%Fox Nation: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 1.1%Fox Nation: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Kornick: 6.3%Fox Nation: 3.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 4.6%Lindsay Kornick: 1.6%Fox Nation: 1.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…4.6%

368 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers45%attributed speech202writer words
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Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 29 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWhite House • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWhite House • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWhite House • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 14 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 31 words • 0.0% coverageMark Hamill • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mark Hamill

78%flagged-word coverage
129 attributed words78% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -8.4 ptsWriter: 8.4%Mark Hamill: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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