{"id":2316649,"date":"2026-03-07T02:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2316649"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:04:24","slug":"ben-stiller-slams-white-house-for-tropic-thunder-social-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ben-stiller-slams-white-house-for-tropic-thunder-social-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller Slams White House for Tropic Thunder Social Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/ben-stiller\/\"><strong>Ben Stiller<\/strong><\/a> spoke out against the White House for using a clip of <em>Tropic Thunder<\/em> in their latest social media post following the strike on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey White House, please remove the <em>Tropic Thunder<\/em> clip,\u201d the actor, 60, wrote <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenStiller\/status\/2029989426948870182?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via X<\/a> on Friday, March 6. \u201cWe never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, March 5, the official White House X account posted a clip that included Stiller\u2019s satire movie about the Vietnam War which also starred <strong>Jack Black<\/strong> and <strong>Robert Downey Jr<\/strong>. The post was a montage of other war moments from films and featured additional snippets from <em>Braveheart, Top Gun, Superman, Transformers, Iron Man 2, Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udd25,\u201d read the caption.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kesha-slams-trump-after-white-house-uses-song-in-pro-war-video\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kesha-slams-trump-after-white-house-uses-song-in-pro-war-video\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Kesha Slams Trump After White House Uses Her Song in Pro-War Video<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKesha has called President Donald Trump a \u201ccriminal predator\u201d and condemned the White House\u2019s use of her song \u201cBlow\u201d in a pro-war TikTok video. \u201cIt\u2019s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war [prior to the Iran conflict],\u201d Kesha, 39, wrote [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last weekend, President Donald Trump and the White House confirmed that the United States <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/the-valley-persian-style-cast-reacts-to-united-states-striking-iran\/\">launched an airstrike<\/a> on Iran which killed the country\u2019s leader <strong>Ali Khamenei<\/strong>. Khamenei was 86. In a statement shared via social media on Saturday, February 28, Trump, 79, called Khamenei \u201cone of the most evil people in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not only justice for the people of Iran, but for all great Americans,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the White House gave an update on the conflict which Trump has referred to as \u201cOperation Epic Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, CENTCOM shared the news that three U.S. military service members have been killed in action,\u201d the White House said via X on Sunday, March 1. \u201cAs one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots, who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation\u2026 We send our immense love &amp; eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/white-house-shares-another-ice-video-featuring-sabrina-carpenter\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2202854583-Sabrina-Carpenter-New-Song-Manchild.jpg?crop=0px%2C61px%2C1515px%2C855px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"GettyImages-2202854583 Sabrina Carpenter New Song Manchild\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2202854583-Sabrina-Carpenter-New-Song-Manchild.jpg?quality=70&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/white-house-shares-another-ice-video-featuring-sabrina-carpenter\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">White House Shares New ICE Video Featuring Sabrina Carpenter Amid Backlash<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump\u2019s White House is not backing down after singer Sabrina Carpenter criticized the administration for using her song to promote the administration\u2019s efforts to forcibly deport undocumented immigrants. \u201cPSA: If you\u2019re a criminal illegal, you WILL be arrested &amp; deported,\u201d the official X account for the White House posted on Friday, December 5, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stiller is not the only figure in Hollywood to ask the Trump administration to refrain from using their intellectual property. Earlier this week, Kesha slammed the White House for featuring her song \u201cBlow\u201d in a pro-war video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war [prior to the Iran conflict],\u201d the singer, 39, wrote via her Instagram Story on Monday, March 2. \u201cTrying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane. I absolutely do NOT approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> also previously requested the White House to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-slams-white-houses-evil-ice-video-using-her-song\/\">not use her song<\/a> \u201cJuno\u201d on a video the administration used for the controversial ICE raids.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stiller spoke out against the White House for using a clip of Tropic Thunder in their latest social media post following the strike on Iran. \u201cHey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,\u201d the actor, 60, wrote via X on Friday, March 6. \u201cWe never gave you permission and have no interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2316650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003,21738,22048],"class_list":["post-2316649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Stiller-Slams-White-House-for-Tropic-Thunder-Social-Clip.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316651,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316649\/revisions\/2316651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}