President Barack Obama’s unsightly library/museum in Chicago doesn’t officially open until June. But that didn’t stop the former president from hijacking 'Star Wars Day' to promote his Obama Presidential Center with a cringeworthy video. He even roped in Luke Skywalker himself, actor Mark Hamill, to bring more imbalance to the farce.
Check out this huge pile of Sith. (WATCH)
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center.
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) May 4, 2026
Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill pic.twitter.com/OzhhUzD789
You can't pay me to unmute and watch that.
— Taylor West (@TaylorOfTheWest) May 4, 2026
May the cringe be off the charts…
— Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 (@TheMuppetPastor) May 4, 2026
If only both could be in a galaxy far far away.
— Chris Segroves (Sermon Statistics in Bio) (@Chris_Segroves) May 4, 2026
Hopefully, marooned on a lonely, speeding remnant of Alderaan.
A banishment to Tatooine would work, too. Posters say that’s where the inspiration for Obama's center comes from.
Now it finally makes sense pic.twitter.com/hoBsXC8LKL
— American Snarker (@americansnarker) May 4, 2026
It's basically a Sandcrawler stood on its end. 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/5dMgmScjZS
— Barry Hall (@KissforKolber) May 4, 2026
This was immediately where my mind went too lol
— Dane Golang (@dane_golang) May 4, 2026
We see the resemblance.
Other posters said the gray color gives them a totally different Star Wars vibe.
I'm not a star wars nerd but the obama tower absolutely looks like the headquarters for the dark side.
— Suburban Dad (Knowingly) (@suburburban) May 4, 2026
They couldn't even shoot this spot on a sunny day...
— Pepe Dutch (@PepeDutch17) May 4, 2026
But let’s be honest, your library looks like something that the Empire built. pic.twitter.com/YVlLchxlnA
— AnnaZ (@AnnaZ) May 4, 2026
Recommended
The Obama vanity project looks like the garbage chute of the Death Star, so there’s that.
— Cats without Borders (@russ62960450) May 4, 2026
Obama's trash isn't cheap. Tickets go on sale May 6th. Adult tickets cost $30, and children's admission is $23 for tykes 3 to 12. One thing's for sure, your wallet’s gonna be a lot thinner.
Other commenters see more parallels to the Galactic Empire in Obama’s center.
The Obama Presidential Center looks like a Star Wars blaster turret tower, or like some sort of windowless, armored fortress.
— TheUnsaid (@TheUnsaid11) May 4, 2026
Design was unnecessarily excessive & costly. pic.twitter.com/8tWKl78JHP
That BRUTALIST building of Obamas literally looks like something the EMPIRE would build On the once beautiful CORCUSANT.
— Lord Brian Urso, Lead Guitarist of Gideons Mob (@TheMobRules73) May 4, 2026
And Obama's library looks like an Imperial prison.
— Kyle (@KylePostingOnX) May 4, 2026
He definitely belongs in one.
Apparently, Mark Hamill took a break from selling his $400 autographed glossies to appear beside his fellow Democrat. He looks like he stumbled out of a sci-fi convention bar.
Is Mark Hamil drunk or high in this video? pic.twitter.com/2WTHYyzRxd
— Brian Kennedy (@Brian_Kennedy) May 4, 2026
Come on man how can you ask that question? pic.twitter.com/lSeTw6Wvnp
— Robert Rea (@Rob8729) May 4, 2026
LEFT EYE RIGHT EYE SYNDROME
— Robert Xeno (@robertxeno) May 4, 2026
Also Mark? Are you okay ?? Mark... Mark! Wake up! pic.twitter.com/U7oGbBNLww
You need to have that ‘Jed-eye’ looked at by a medical droid pronto, Mark.
One poster says the Dark Side duo’s video brings back bad 'mammaries' from the recent trilogy.
this is the most painful 5 seconds of a video i have ever seen. almost as painful as star wars with luke sucking the blue milk out of alien boobs.
— dlo3 (@dlo3812294) May 4, 2026
— Chris Palmer (@ChristheAV8R) May 4, 2026
— The Right Memes 🇺🇸 (@Rightmemer1) May 4, 2026
Mark Hamill is a sad case. Yikes. Yes, that is totally cringe. Sorry that I saw that.
— Eustachius Scrubb☦️ (@UselessShrubb) May 4, 2026
Hamill looks spent. He’s a good dude who went down the wrong path imo
— X (@xgoblindad) May 4, 2026
‘Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.’ Yoda was on to something.