Ben Stiller is speaking out after an official White House social media account used a clip from Tropic Thunder.
Stiller, 60, shared a statement on X on Friday, March 6, after Trump’s White House posted a video featuring a compilation of several movies and TV shows — including Top Gun, Superman, Transformers, Breaking Bad, Iron Man and Stiller’s 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder — cut together with what appeared to be clips of U.S. military operations.
“Justice the American way,” the White House captioned the post.
Stiller then responded, “Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip.”
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” he added.
Stiller joins a growing list of celebrities who have spoken out after the White House used their content on its social media channels, including Céline Dion, Bruce Springsteen, Linkin Park, Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo and Radiohead.
Just this week, Kesha criticized the White House for using her song “Blow” in a Feb. 10 video that showed a fighter jet firing a missile at a naval ship and an explosion.
“It’s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war,” Kesha, 39, wrote in an Instagram Stories post on March 2. “Trying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane.”
The “Die Young” singer added that she “absolutely” does not “approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind.”
In response to Kesha’s statement, White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung reposted her words on X, adding, “All these ‘singers’ keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they’re bitching about. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Similarly, the White House deleted a video posted on X — though kept it on TikTok — promoting ICE arrests after Sabrina Carpenter criticized the use of her song as the soundtrack.
In December, the Trump Administration shared a video highlighting recent ICE arrests while Carpenter’s hit “Juno” played. The clip showed immigration and customs enforcement officers detaining people as the lyric “Have you ever tried this one?” repeated. The White House captioned the video, “Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye.”
The White House deleted the video from its X account on Dec. 5 following Carpenter’s viral response. In her comment under the since‑deleted post — which garnered over a million likes — the “Manchild” singer called the video “evil and disgusting.”
“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” Carpenter wrote in her Dec. 2 X post.
