"War Is Not A Movie”: Ben Stiller Joins Growing List of Artists Condemning White House War Videos
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Actor Ben Stiller is asking the White House to remove a clip from “Tropic Thunder” from a war video that shows several films from “Superman” to “Top Gun” to “Bravehart” interspersed with clips of U.S. missiles hitting targets in Iran. Stiller is getting some push back for his comments but he joins a number of artists who have also complained about their work being used in White House videos, including Kesha, Sabrina Carpenter and even Pokémon.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.5 | It is Saturday, March 7th, and Ben Stiller has gone to war with the White House over a movie about war that's being |
| 0:23.9 | used as propaganda for an actual war. And if you follow that, you're doing better than I am. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. I think I got it right, but it seems silly that |
| 0:32.8 | it's happening when people are actually dying. We are in the middle of an actual war and a |
| 0:36.9 | Hollywood superstar in the White House are going back and forth on X. Yes, on propaganda, war propaganda. |
| 0:43.6 | Yes. Using movie clips to pump up the sentiment behind the war with Iran. Which is an odd choice. |
| 0:53.7 | It feels, you know, it feels weird to watch it, |
| 0:56.2 | and it feels uncomfortable to be entertained in any way by... We'll get into what the videos actually |
| 1:01.3 | are, but yeah, this isn't new... Oh, we should say, by the way. Ben Stiller's just the latest |
| 1:05.5 | star to have an issue with what the White House is putting out sometimes. |
| 1:08.1 | Look, I think any time, we watched it this morning, and we watched it a couple of times. |
| 1:12.7 | And look, it is tough because to have entertainment clips of either movies or you should be one with a football field to create like war equating to a movie or a sport. It's just, |
| 1:29.6 | it's tough because people are dying. This is, Americans are putting their lives in harm's |
| 1:36.4 | way. And this is obviously, we don't have to say this out loud. War is serious. War is life or |
| 1:41.9 | death. So it does feel icky a little bit, I think, to have entertainment somehow |
| 1:48.1 | mixed into all of that. So what we're talking about is a video the White House put |
| 1:51.8 | out yesterday. It's about 45 seconds long and it just has several |
| 1:56.0 | clips of Hollywood movies. Several of them are Marvel movies. You see superheroes in there. |
| 2:01.7 | I think Christopher Reeve is in there with a line. |
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