Former President Barack Obama and Mark Hamill teamed up to put out a cringe-inducing video for Star Wars Day.
While nerds everywhere were busy celebrating a day dedicated to their love of the sci-fi franchise, Obama and Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, got together to film a video promoting the Obama Presidential Center. The facility doesn’t open until June 19, but tickets become available as soon as May 6, which is likely why they chose the timing of the promotion to coincide with such a popular date.
Watch:
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center.
Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill pic.twitter.com/OzhhUzD789
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) May 4, 2026
“Happy Star Wars Day from the Obama Presidential Center,” the former president said.
“I have a very good feeling about this,” Hamill quipped.
“Mark, I am glad you are here. I want to tell you about someone, a young person born into ordinary circumstances, but restless, Unsatisfied,” Obama continued. “A kid with big dreams. A bit of a rebel.”
“I like where this is going,” the actor chimes in.
“They join a scrappy group of underdogs and set out to change things,” Obama adds.
“By blowing up a giant space laser?” Hamill asks, mimicking an explosion.
“Mark, this is not about you, as wonderful as you are; this is about them,” Obama chided, pointing at the camera.
“This isn’t a monument to my legacy, it’s a gateway to yours. The Obama Presidential Center is much more than a museum; it is an entire campus built to empower you. A place to come together, get inspired and become a force… for change.”
X users did not like that:
Politicizing Star Wars is EXACTLY what killed the franchise.
Well done, douches.
— Moe’s Place (@MeetYouAtMoes) May 4, 2026
Yeah doesn’t everybody want to pay $30 to go to a monstrosity in a crimeridden area and have to show ID but not have to show ID to vote?
— Ultra MAGA Joyce Day (@Daytobehappy) May 4, 2026
From the Obama trashcan that you can’t even fucking read. How are you gonna make the outside of your library illegible?! Reeeetarrrrded!!
— Turd_Furgeson75 (@turd_furg3son) May 5, 2026
Cool. That building looks like an even more hideous Death Star.
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Pat Mcdonaldson
Weird how you designed your Center as the largest example of Soviet-era Brutalism architecture in North America.
— Jake West – A friendly ghost. (@JakeIsHere5x5) May 4, 2026
Posing with celebrities won’t repair your legacy of failure and Marxism. History will not be kind to you.
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