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A crowd-funding campaign was recently started to purchase Twitter for the sole purpose of banning Donald Trump from the platform. Mark Hamill is a fan of the idea and said he donated to the GoFundMe cause.

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00:00Use the false, Luke. And get Trump off Twitter.

00:04Alright, it's true. A crowdfunding campaign was recently started to purchase Twitter

00:08for the sole purpose of banning President Donald Trump from the platform

00:12and none other than Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, said he donated

00:16to the GoFundMe cause. The actor tweeted,

00:26Now, the whole notion is satirical, which the Star Wars icon pointed out to his fans,

00:29but the fact remains the campaign so far has collected more than $80,000.

00:33Its goal is a billion, so yeah, there's a ways to go.

00:37The campaign was started by Valerie Plame Wilson of Santa Fe, New Mexico,

00:41who said Trump's use of Twitter is now a matter of life and death,

00:45given the powers of the presidency. Wilson is a former CIA member

00:49who focused on nuclear proliferation issues. Said Wilson on the campaign page,

00:53If we hit this goal, we'll use it to become Twitter's single biggest shareholder

00:59and leverage that position to enforce its rules against violent threats,

01:03intimidation and hate speech, and shut down Trump for good.

01:07Hamill, star of the upcoming and highly anticipated The Last Jedi,

01:11is a long-time and outspoken critic of Trump.

01:13He also tends to read the president's tweets in the voice of the Joker.

01:17So what's your take on by Twitter? Are you Team Skywalker? Let me know in the comments.

01:23For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm not the Joker or Mark Hamill. I'm Paul Costabile. See you guys.

01:29We'll see you next time.

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