It’s a safe bet the Trump campaign’s Death Star analogy will come up at a June 30 fundraiser for Joe Biden featuring Star Wars star Mark Hamill — but not in the way the president’s political team intended.
The campaign for Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, earlier this week mocked a Star Wars-infused May 7 tweet by Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
“For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc. In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time,” Parscale said at the time.
For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.
In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time. pic.twitter.com/aJgCNfx1m0
— Brad Parscale – Download our Trump 2020 App today! (@parscale) May 7, 2020
The Biden campaign’s criticism is likely to continue at the former vice president’s fundraising event with Hamill, best known as Star Wars protagonist Luke Skywalker, who heroically blows up the hulking Imperial base in the original film.
Hamill is set to “moderate” an event in two weeks with Biden, with tickets costing up to $100,000. The event will come a bit over four months before Biden and President Trump face off in the November election.
Having Hamill as a guest is likely to appeal to a certain set of Biden contributors, going back to his Senate days. The original trilogy — A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983) — was released during the first third of Biden’s 36-year Senate career. A rising star after his upset 1972 win at age 29, Biden emerged as a national figure during the original Star Wars era.
And Hamill, 68, has proven himself no fan of Trump. The cartoon voice-over actor, who reprised his Luke Skywalker role for Disney’s Episodes VII-IX over the past five years, is a prolific tweeter, often aiming at the president and his family. Last September, Hamill didn’t take kindly to a tweet by Trump’s daughter Ivanka showing her and her family with what appeared to be Star Wars-themed Lego play sets.
“The Force is strong in my family,” she wrote with a star emoji.
Hamill responded, “You misspelled ‘Fraud.’ #GoForceYourself.”
