Ben Stiller Slams White House “Propaganda” For Using ‘Tropic Thunder’ Clip: “War Is Not A Movie”

Following the White House‘s latest piece of pro-war propaganda, Hollywood is calling out the Trump administration.

Ben Stiller recently slammed the White House for including a clip from his 2008 action-comedy Tropic Thunder in a supercut of several films, TV shows and video games, edited together with drone footage of the U.S. and Israel’s recent strikes on Iran.

“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” wrote Stiller on X. “We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.”

On Thursday, the White House celebrated the U.S. and Israel’s recent bombings in Iran with a supercut of the drone footage, edited together with shots from several action franchises, including multiple Tom Cruise appearances, kicking off with Minority Report, before Top Gun: Maverick, and then, a shot of Cruise’s Less Grossman dancing at the end of Tropic Thunder.

“JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY,” the White House wrote with the video.

Also featured were shots from Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Gladiator, Braveheart, John Wick, Superman, Transformers, Deadpool and Halo.

The Motion Picture Association had no comment on the use of the clips.

The latest post comes after Kesha took to social media to slam the administration for putting her song “Blow” under footage with the title “Lethality” from a February 10 TikTok posting of a jet launching a missile and destroying what appears to be an enemy ship.

Last week, Iranian state TV confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had died after Donald Trump proclaimed the harsh 37-year rule of the cleric had ended with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran. With dozens of other members of the Iranian leadership also dead, Khamenei was said to have died in his official office in the early hours of the first wave of attacks on Iran by U.S. and Israeli air forces.

Trump has since projected a four-to-five-week war as his administration vows to do “whatever it takes,” justifying the strikes as necessary to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability, hobble its Navy, prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure that the regime cannot direct armies outside of its border.