Assassination Chic among the left has been a thing since the days of George W. Bush’s presidency (if not sooner), but they turned it into an art form during Donald Trump’s first term and have shown no signs of letting up a year and a half into his second.
There have been three attempts on the president’s life in less than two years, with the first two happening in the summer of 2024, when he was the GOP presidential nominee, and the third one happening last month during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (WHCD).
In two of the three instances, the suspects left a paper trail of notes where incendiary language that was identical to that uttered by prominent Democrats was used to describe Trump and members of his cabinet.
For instance, Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged WHCD shooter, referred to Trump as “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor” in a manifesto that he sent to his family, according to senior Trump administration officials. Ryan Wesley Routh, who was convicted roughly a year after his September 2024 assassination attempt on Trump, referred to him as a “dictator” who was unfit to lead America.
Revealingly, when prominent Democrats are reminded that their repeated comparisons of Trump to Hitler and the violence-tinged words they use in their campaigns against him have had the net effect of inspiring attempts to kill him, they don’t back off. They simply double down.
Case in point, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY):
The latest Assassination Chic entry comes from Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who wrote a post on leftist safe space Bluesky on Wednesday in which he seemed to advocate for Trump’s assassination:
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill posted a photo depicting President Donald Trump as deceased on Wednesday with a caption that read “If Only,” just days after an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner.
“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’s post continued.
Posobiac was referring to a recent promotional video for the Obama library that featured Hamill and the former president:
Hamill has since deleted the post and put up a new one in which he claimed he was “wishing him the opposite of dead”:
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.💙-mh[image or embed]— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) May 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
In a recent interview with Fox News host Harris Faulkner, The Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro explained the “gigantic permission structure” the left and their media allies have invented to justify their Assassination Chic:
“The reality is a gigantic permission structure has been created for violence against the president of the United States, suggesting he is a complete threat to the United States, that he is a fascist incarnation, a Hitlerian person. All of that is designed to generate an outsized feeling that the only way to stop the president of the United States is with political violence.”
Watch:
When does it stop? For that matter, will it ever stop?
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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