To be fair, the guy was Darth Vader, silhouetted in a cloud of smoke.

Trump had come out for an impromptu meeting with reporters and interrupted the in-flight movie: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” And while the media’s attention was focused on the president, the Internet couldn’t get past the symbolism.

There’s Trump interrupting a showing of “Star Wars” a day or so before greenlighting strikes on a foreign country. There’s Trump, a protest target and a president with historically low approval ratings, standing next to one of the world’s most iconic villains. The Trump-Vader comparison has been made over and over again. Fortunately, no one made a joke about Air Force One. Until now. Sorry.

But the biggest burn came from one of the movie series’s biggest stars: Mark Hamill, the guy who has played Luke Skywalker.

Brent Ashcroft, a reporter from Grand Rapids, Mich., ABC-affiliate WZZM shot a tweet to Hamill, asking what the movie star thought of the Trump-Vader juxtaposition.

Hamill’s reply was a shot at Trump’s chief strategist: Stephen K. Bannon.

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The 65-year-old Hamill has made trolling Trump into a hobby. Earlier this year, for example, Hamill wondered what it would be like if the Joker read some of Trump’s more menacing tweets. (Hamill also has been the voice of the “Batman” villain in D.C.’s animated series and games.)

Hamill made the recordings — he calls the character “the Trumpster” — after comedian Matt Oswalt said Trump’s “Happy New Year” tweet sounded like something the Joker would say before releasing killer bees onto Gotham City.

But the Trump tirades have gone back longer than that. A week after Trump was elected, Hamill told the Daily Beast that Trump’s administration was “a who’s-who of really despicable people.”

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That included Bannon. The former chairman of conservative news site Breitbart has been closely associated with the “alt-right” movement, which seeks a whites-only state, and has faced his share of bad comparison too.

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“Saturday Night Live” has consistently portrayed him as the Grim Reaper who runs the country while Trump, banished to a tiny desk, plays with children’s toys.